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DigiMilch Experimental Field

The Digimilch project (https://www.lfl.bayern.de/digimilch) has been set up to bring together different stakeholders to improve dairy farming through digital technology. 

The Chair of Agrimechatronics is part of the project tasked with improving tractor-implement communications through investigating the ISO11783 (ISOBUS) communications standard.

TUM is researching the performance of the ISOBUS Task Controller (TC), as well as other GNSS-enabled automation, devices which can take electronic control of a piece of agricultural equipment to make it apply product in a more efficient way (increasing yields). For this purpose, the tests are carried out with commercial ISOBUS components during slurry application on a Bavarian farm.

Aims:

  • Improve slurry spreading for farmers (better application of slurry means that better yields are realised from the same volume of slurry).
  • Determine how well the performance of the TC works in its current form.
  • Identify potential future improvements for the ISO 11783 standard.
Acknowledgments

The project is supported by funds of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) based on a decision of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) provides coordinating support for digitalisation in agriculture as funding organisation (28DE112B18).
 

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