AGROS, the research program in which Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and 26 private partners worked on an ‘Evolution towards sustainable AGRicultural Business Systems’ recently concluded with a final meeting. It was also announced there that the program will be continued with AGROS-II.’Modelling is not objective’Modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) have become indispensable within the [ … ]
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Invitation to the network and knowledge event
“AGROS – the road towards sustainable data-driven agriculture” Complexity of production systems in greenhouse horticulture, arable farming and dairy is increasing. All the while society demands sustainable systems. Current production 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 [ … ]
Workshops for the network & knowledge event
Please choose one workshop per session. Let us know which one in the registration form: -> https://event.wur.nl/153383/subscribe?survey_id=168244 We will try to divide you in your workshops of preference as much as possible, but we cannot guarantee this if there’s a great interest in a workshop. Session 1 (14:30 – 15:10) How can farming become more [ … ]
Save the date: AGROS-closing event on Wednesday April 24
With ‘AGROS-the road towards sustainable high tech agriculture’ as a title, the AGROS-project will organize its final event on Wednesday April 2024 in Wageningen. Marc Jacobs, a data scientist with a down-to-earth view on AI and its influence on society, will kick off the event with an inspirational introduction. Jacobs is the author of books [ … ]
AGROS – a future structure for energy
A previous update of this work package explained how the agricultural sector cannot avoid gradually working towards a ‘fossil-free’ agricultural company. Because agricultural companies are often large producers of energy in the form of electricity (solar panels and wind turbines), conversion to hydrogen, as an energy carriers is an interesting alternative. The scale on which [ … ]
Controlling chrysanthemum cultivation based on sensor information
In the AGROS project we are working towards an autonomous greenhouse in which cultivation is controlled remotely by intelligent algorithms based on automated measurements with sensors. After a successful validation trial in early 2023 in which cucumbers were grown autonomously, the concept was broadened to the other model crop of the project, chrysanthemum. Current challenges [ … ]
AGROS knowledge sessions
Knowledge sessions are currently being organized for the partners of AGROS to dive deeper into the knowledge developed during the project. The first sessions about Digital Twin and Computer Vision were organized in November 2023. On Tuesday, December 5, the spotlight was on the cultivation plan in an online webinar, led by Monique Bijlaard of [ … ]
A farmer’s data space
Digitalization has become an indispensable part of life around us. Data has also become increasingly important on farms. Buyers of agricultural products, for example, are asking more and more about registrations of substances used in order to justify that food has been produced safely. Furthermore, farmers must also supply all kinds of data to the [ … ]
AGROS Dairy use-case at the EAAP-Congress in Lyon
The European Federation of Animal Science held its 74th annual conference in Lyon, France, between the 26th August and 1st September. The dairy use-case of AGROS was present with an oral presentation on breath analysis and a poster presentation on 3D computer vision. In his talk, researcher István Fodor summarized the results of the collaborative [ … ]
Promising results from trained disease-search algorithm means good news for seed potato growers
Good news for seed potato growers. After collecting data for 4 years, the trained disease-search algorithm appears to be able to recognize diseased plants. This emerged during the practical demo this summer, which was well attended by partners, growers en trading houses connected to the AGROS project. High scores in recall and precision In recent [ … ]
AGROS validation trial confirms the feasibility of autonomous control in greenhouses
The recently completed AGROS validation trial is taking researchers another step closer to the realisation of a fully autonomous greenhouse. In the trial an Artificial Intelligence algorithm, based on Reinforcement Learning, controlled the climate in a semi-commercial greenhouse resulting in a productive cucumber crop. Another milestone was marked by the successful deployment of a Digital [ … ]
Growing cucumbers using intelligent algorithms
The public-private partnership project AGROS aims to realize an “autonomous greenhouse” in which cultivation is remotely controlled by artificial intelligence (AI). Intelligent algorithms and advanced sensors monitor key crop characteristics and support the decisions made to achieve profitable cultivation. AGROS is led by Wageningen University & Research. A fully autonomous greenhouse system “The dot on [ … ]