Date: Wednesday April 5, 2023
Time: 13:00 – 17:00
Venue: WUR Greenhouse Horticulture, Violierenweg 1, Bleiswijk, The Netherlands
Complexity of systems in greenhouse horticulture, arable farming and dairy is increasing, and society demands sustainable production systems. Current farming systems can only meet this demand to a limited extent. The way forward involves a transition to sustainable, data-driven intelligent agricultural and horticultural systems. In the AGROS project, we are investigating how technology can help with this transition, looking for cross-overs between the agricultural sectors. We develop knowledge on the production systems, sensors to generate data and intelligent algorithms to control the system based on the measured data.
In this meeting, we would like to update you on the status of “data and intelligence in horticulture, arable farming and dairy” and discuss this with you. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality will present their vision on digitalization in agriculture and their action plan. Results on sensors, vision technology and intelligence of the different sectors will be shared and discussed with you. And we will visit the greenhouse trial where three cucumber crops are controlled by a group of crop and irrigation experts or autonomously controlled by a Digital Twin or an artificial intelligence algorithm based on Reinforcement Learning.
Program:
12:45 Coffee and tea
13:00 Digitalization in agriculture – Pim van der Horst (Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality)
13:30 AGROS: Data driven agriculture, examples of horticulture, arable farming and dairy – Anja Dieleman (Wageningen University & Research)
13:45 Questions and discussion
14:00 Workshop round 1, see next page.
14:45 Coffee and tea break, networking
15:15 Workshop round 2, see next page.
16:00 Visiting greenhouse trial AGROS
16:30 Closure with drinks
Please select two workshops that you would like to attend.
Workshops
- Use of vision technology
By Andre Hulsman and Marjaneh Taghavi (Wageningen University & Research)
Vision technology is used in arable farming for disease detection in seed potatoes and weed control in onions. In dairy farming, monitoring individual feed intake of individual dairy cows is important not only to assess their feed efficiency, but also to detect health events. In horticulture, a vision system is developed for plant traits that are now manually collected. Data processing based on camera data and deep learning will be presented.
- Data collection by sensors to provide data for data-driven control
By Selwin Hageraats and Anna Petropoulou (Wageningen University & Research)
Controlling a greenhouse cultivation has to be based on data on climate and crop parameters. Important questions are which parameters are essential to make the right cultivation decisions, and which sensors are available or should be developed to measure accurately these desired parameters? In this workshop, a number of sensors and their applications will be presented.
- Detection and intelligent control of diseases
By István Fodor and Kirsten Leiss (Wageningen University & Research)
Disease detection and control is important in all sectors. However, how to measure and control differs. In dairy cattle, a growing body of evidence suggests that the potential applications of breath analysis go beyond monitoring methane emissions. In greenhouses, we are currently working on digital crop protection, where pests and diseases are detected via vision technology, detection of volatiles and electrophysical sensors. Principles of detection and examples Results of these cases will be presented and discussed in this workshop.
- Intelligence and control
By Feije de Zwart and Guido Jansen (Wageningen University & Research)
The AGROS project is working towards autonomously controlled cultivation in cucumbers. In this workshop, you will be updated on the strategies we developed to control the greenhouses remotely, which are a mechanistic-model-based Digital Twin, and an artificial intelligence algorithm based on Reinforcement Learning.
Registration
If you are interested to participate, please register by filling in the registration form. Registration is possible until March 30. The maximum number of participants for the event is 70.
More information
For more information, please contact Anja Dieleman (Wageningen University & Research), anja.dieleman@wur.nl
During the event, pictures and videos can be made for use in the project. Please let us know on for hand if you have any objection for this.
The AGROS project is a public-private partnership project, in which Wageningen University & Research cooperates with 2Grow, BASF Vegetable Seeds, Delphy, Gennovation, Greenport West Holland, Hortilux, IMEC/One Planet, Mechatronix, Philips, Ridder, Roullier, Saint-Gobain Cultilene, Signify, Stichting Kennis in je Kas, and Van der Hoeven, BO-Akkerbouw, Kubota, AgroIntelli, Spie, Bayer, Orphiction, Cumela, two farm biodiversity partnerships, Connecterra and Melkveefonds with funding provided by the government “Top Sectors” programme Horticulture & Starting Materials and Agro and Food.
