Use of ICT in Danish extension activities

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Presented at eXtension 2012 National Conference, October 1, 2012 - October 4, 2012, #nexc2012. Session #709. Gives an overview over how Danish agricultural extension activities is organized and how information- and communication technologies (ICT) is used for transferring theoretical knowledge out in practical use. To overcome high costs and strong environmental regulations, Danish farmers must produce using best methods and knowledge available. A unique two-layer advisory system including 31 local advisory centres and a common Knowledge Centre for Agriculture helps them fulfilling this. ICT has since 1997 played an ever-increasing crucial role in this system in dissemination of information and offering of online services. Primarily targeting advisors, the information database www.LandbrugsInfo.dk with +50.000 articles covering all aspects of farming functions as a library and a as an accelerator of new knowledge. All 3.500 employees in the advisory system use LandbrugsInfo and many of them visit LandbrugsInfo several times each day. For farmers, the portal www.landmand.dk offers personalized information and services including access to farm specific data and e-documents from to example dairies and feed stuff companies. Approx. 25.000 out of 35.000 Danish farmers are active users of Landmand.dk. All local advisory centres have their own web sites. Most of these sites and a number of other farming related sites including Farmers Weekly, is running on a common CMS developed by the Knowledge Centre. This ensures a cost-effective solution; re-use of information and single sign on for users.

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Use of ICT in Danish Extension Activities

Jens Peter HansenSpecialist, ICT

Business Development

jph@vfl.dk

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August 2010

Partnership31 regional advisory companies and Knowledge Centre for Agriculture in Skejby3,600 employeesTurnover approx. EUR 310 million

Danish Agricultural Advisory Service

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Theory PracticeThe Danish Model

16 agricultural colleges

Research and other sources of knowledge

1,200 employees

Knowledge Centre for Agriculture1 unit, 500 employees

31 regional advisory centres3,100 employees

50,000 farmersAverage farm size 57 ha

Number of employees within the agricultural sector: 150,000

Our products and tasks

General and specialized advice

Transfer of knowledge

Innovation/ Development

Research, trials and demonstration

Education, training and courses

Operation and maintenance of ongoing tasks

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Relations between DAAS and farmers

Farmers are:

• Owners• Users• Customers

Key words:

• Best and cheapest• Impartiality• Non-profit

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Knowledge transfer from global science, research and other sources of knowledge

Advice on technologies for producing cattle, pigs, crops, poultry, vegetables and fruits, furs etc.

Advice on strategic planning, economy, tax, HR, logistics etc.

Innovation and development

Tests, studies/demonstrations and projects

Services – bookkeeping and accounting, auditing, advice on rules and regulations, databases, administration etc.

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DANISH AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY SERVICE45,000 customers within agriculture, vegetables, fruit and other trades

Organisation of theDanish agricultural sector

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Distribution of income, 2011

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Total turnover:EUR 79 million

21%

16% 3%

60%

AgroTech80 knowledge employees

Subsidiaries100 knowledge employees

Knowledge Centre for Agriculture500 knowledge employees

KoldkaergaardConference Centre

Cluster of knowledge and competences for food and agriculture

Vision

By 2020 Agro Food Park is one of five world leading centres of

excellence for utilisation of knowledge and innovation within agriculture

and food, with a specific focus on health.

By 2020 Agro Food Park has about 3,000

employees.

Knowledge dissemination

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105,000 documents

27,000 page references per day

55,000 visitors per week

50 interactive programs

plant protection tools

calculation of animal units and area requirement

weather forecast

2.3 million people visit www.landbrugsinfo.dk and www.landmand.dk every year

DAAS to advisers:

www.landbrugsinfo.dk

DAAS to farmers:

www.landmand.dk

Local centre to farmers:

www.supportsitet.dk

Macrotrends Microtrends

Evolution in use of ICT among Danish farmers

1990 2000 2010 2020

Applications

Trends

Holdings: 78.000

Access PC: 48%

Access Internet: 52%

PC programs

Owner = user

Technical challenges

Education

From papers to webpages

…1990…

www.landbrugsinfo.dk

…1990…

LandbrugsInfo – facts

Established in 1997 – major make-over in 2001 and 2009All the 3000 local advisory centres use LandbrugsInfo as their primary source to information

All members of Farmers Union has free accessMore than 25,000 documentsBetween 50 – 100 new documents per weekAll documents are tagged with metadataApproximately 4,000 – 5,000 sessions per day (week days)

…1990…

…1990…

AgroGISFields Online

Ø90 Budget

Catle DB

Pestdatabase

Sortinfo

FieldMap Online

IrrigationOnline

DMI weather

Field Analyse

National Fielddatabase

(1,72 mio. hec.)

Goverment

Ø90 ERP Management

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Activity Feed intake Milking

Registrations become useful information

…1990…

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PDAAnimal reg.

Web.reg

Management tool

DCF Services

SSO

Claw.reg.

Herd NavigatorBenchmarking

External databases

Handterminal

CHR control

Cattle database

MinistryData

warehouse

VETData

warehouse

…1990…

KreditforeningSlagterier Mejerier

Grovvare

C-blanding 2.148,00 A-blanding 1.300,00 _____________________ I alt kr. 3.448,00 + moms

ERP at the farm

IBM

EDI-Post-box

ERP used by thePlantconsultent

ERP at the advisor

Netbank

Print

Ø90 OnlineGetting bank data

Macrotrends Microtrends

Evolution in use of ICT among Danish farmers

1990 2000 2010 2020

Applications

Trends

Holdings: 53.000

Access PC: 99%

Access Internet: 99%

Use of PDA

Every company makes homepages

Information overflow

Multisite

Foreign labor

Expansion

…2000…

Why do we have to go to so many different sites – I would like to have it “all” on just one page

I can’t remember all these passwords. Why can’t we have just one password that is valid everywhere?

There is a lot of useful information on the Internet, and I would like to be able to collect it all on just one page

Farmers told us…

…2000…

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Personalisation

Selection of web parts (content, services),

Customisation of web parts,

Layout of page(s),

Selection of navigation elements and customisation of these,

Establishing single sign on (SSO) to other sites.

…2000…

- a website build specifically for each user!

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VFL (Corporate) LandbrugsInfo Landmand.dk

Visitors from 85 contries on LandbrugsInfo

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Macrotrends Microtrends

Evolution in use of ICT among Danish farmers

1990 2000 2010 2020

Applications

Trends

Holdings: 42.000

Fulltime: 10.000

Financial crisis

RFID

SmartPhone

All compagny make apps.

QR-codes

Personalized information

Sensors all over

Datacollection

Monitoring

SmartPhone quality

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Use of RFID

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Evolution in use of ICT among Danish farmers

1990 2000 2010 2020

Applications

Trends

Holdings: 4.000

Parttime: 20.000

Decrease in the population(in Denmark)

Groth in world population (50%)

Galileo

Robots

Even more sensors

Location-specific information

Robots

Bigger units

Niches

Internationalization

Vertical integration

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Show me your mobile and I know where you come from

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