End-to-end precision farming services for winter wheat, maize and sugar beet

TalkingFields aimed to increase the efficiency of agricultural production via precision farming by means of geo-information services. It integrated space and ground-based assets to achieve this target. The TalkingFields Demonstration Study is the result of a feasibility study which was successfully concluded in 2009. Precision farming aims to increase the productivity of agricultural cultivation via a more efficient utilisation of natural and anthropogenic resources (land, seeds, fertilisers, plant protection agents and water). The objective of this activity was to develop and implement a set of cost-effective end-to-end precision farming services for winter wheat, maize and sugar beet that allow the farmer to adopt a comprehensive site-specific farming system with little effort.