Dairy Farming

ET4D is a joint research project covering 9 participants from 6 EU countries and 2 participants from 2 non-EU countries (Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Estonia, Poland, Finland, Turkey and Israel).

The aim of ET4D is to:

1. Validate and expand the reporting frame of a data management system (DMS) with embedded sensors for on-farm use to collect and process data from dairy barns;

2. Demonstrate the system’s applicability in real word application by deploying it in commercial farms in different countries with different climatological and socio-economic boundary conditions

3. Identify information requirements of different interest groups and demonstrate the potential added value of the information sharing for the farmer and other interest groups.

This will be achieved by collecting on-farm environmental data and feed it to an online DMS. To this end, dependable wireless connectivity will be implemented on-farm. Data will be processed with regard to the information needs of different target groups, where the latter will be determined based on social diagnosis in the project. A web app will permit farmers and other interest groups to obtain reports tailored to their respective information needs.