HEF Academy lecture series: HSWT expertise on precision agriculture
On the first date of the Hans Eisenmann Academy in winter semester 2024/25, Prof. Dr Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen (TUM) and Prof. Dr Frank Leßke (HSWT) presented the basics of precision agriculture.
Soils are heterogeneous, the levels of various nutrients such as nitrogen and carbon vary greatly - and this on a very small area. However, arable fields are predominantly cultivated uniformly. This results in fluctuating yields depending on the soil region and the type of crop grown. Prof. Dr Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen's research at the Chair of Organic Farming and Crop Production Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) includes digital methods for recording site-specific yields and the plant cultivation principles for site-specific fertilisation. Prof Dr Frank Leßke from the Bioengineering Sciences department at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (HSWT) has already collaborated with Professor Hülsbergen on several projects on this topic, most recently on the digiMan project.
Start-up YieldXperts
The founders of the TUM start-up YieldXperts then presented their approaches to putting the findings of precision agriculture into practice. The startup works in collaboration with the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (HSWT). Prof Dr Frank Leßke from the Bioengineering (Sciences) department at HSWT explains: „In YieldXperts, computer science plays an important role in many areas: in pre-processing, data analysis and evaluation. It is also integrated into the products, e.g. in the evaluation of the algorithms for the nutrient management software.“
„Sustainably increasing soil fertility“
Professor Hülsbergen, Professor Leßke, Martin Mittermayer, Ludwig Hagn and Johannes Schuster emphasised that it is not just about yields in the present, they also want to increase soil fertility for future generations.
Here you can find the detailed press release of the Hans-Eisenmann-Forum (HEF) for Agricultural Sciences.
