Agriculture

The current animal traffic database (TVD) dates back to 2011 and, despite ongoing improvements, its system architecture is no longer state of the art. Identitas AG will therefore be gradually renewing the TVD by 2030, thereby also optimizing usability and mobile capability.

Two innovative approaches being developed by Agroscope: intelligent camera systems to ward off crows and dendrometers to optimize the water supply to trees. Both technologies aim to increase efficiency while offering environmentally friendly solutions.

Every year, the Swiss Fruit Association produces a harvest estimate for dessert pome fruit. Today, the PreApPear smartphone app makes it possible to estimate the harvest of dessert pome fruit using artificial intelligence (AI).

At the decentralized experimental station, smart technologies have been running promising on-farm trials on site-specific or even sub-area-specific nitrogen fertilization with winter wheat since 2022 as part of the Smart-N project.

On 4 June 2024, this year's annual conference of the Swiss Agriculture and Food Industry Digitalization Charter Association took place at HAFL under the motto "Data-based agriculture and food industry" with around 70 participants.

Data is playing an increasingly important role in modern agriculture. It helps farmers to work more efficiently, sustainably and profitably. But how exactly can added value be created from data? Here you can find out how you can optimize your agricultural processes by understanding and using data.

IP-SUISSE has been offering an electronic field calendar as an app since 2016. For various reasons, the Executive Board decided to reprogram the field calendar from scratch in 2023. Even the name is new, namely smartfarm. Smartfarm is much more comprehensive than a field calendar.

The barto platform, which enables players in Swiss agriculture to develop and offer their own modules, exceeded 5,000 subscribers at the start of 2024, making it the undisputed number one among Swiss farm management and information systems (FMIS). But the digital farm manager is also continuing to grow in terms of its offering: two new modules and the expansion of a third will be released over the course of summer 2024.

A workshop with various stakeholders from the Swiss agricultural and food sector was held in March 2024 to develop the digiagrifood.ch communication platform. The aim was to determine the needs of the future digiagrifood.ch website from the perspective of external stakeholders.

After around two years of work, the first four data standards for the agricultural and food sector were published on April 15, 2024.