Supporting the YEN Family through Covid-19 and beyond with an enhanced digital environment: Enhancing agricultural productivity, sustainability & profitability

通过增强的数字环境支持 YEN 家族度过 Covid-19 及其他时期：提高农业生产力和可持续性

• 批准号: 83787
• 金额: $ 12.69万
• 依托单位: RSK ADAS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=83787
• 关键词: Supporting; YEN; Family; through; Covid

UK Agriculture and the food system face challenges and opportunities from Covid-19 and Brexit, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation. UK farming faces change; in coming years farmers must farm in a different climate, with net-zero emissions, with reducing and redirected subsidy payments, with possible post-Brexit trade tariffs, producing healthier foods, reliably, with raised soil health, protecting threatened species and the qualities of air and water, whilst remaining commercially viable. The blueprints to achieve this do not currently exist, and can only be developed by working together. Productivity in UK agriculture lags well behind our international competitors, in part due to our fragmented knowledge & innovation system and relative lack of collaboration and sharing of knowledge and data. Arable agriculture has been very poor at systematically monitoring its inputs, processes and outputs (eg yield), so despite huge variability with and between fields and farms there is limited understanding of 'what works' in improving performance. On top of this Covid-19 has disrupted the normal knowledge exchange mechanisms through the numerous events & meetings that would normally occur.Since 2012 ADAS has pioneered new approaches to knowledge generation and exchange in agriculture through its 'Agronomics' and 'Yield Enhancement Networks (YEN)', working collaboratively to collect and share ideas and data, learning together. The YEN has been very successful in engaging farmers, advisors, industry and researchers to come together around a shared conceptual framework, make measurements of the things that matter, share their data, ideas and experience, derive insights and test decisions. A core principal is the sharing of relevant data to allow comparisons of performance against peers through benchmarking reports; this provides the incentive for growers to share their data, enabling insights to be drawn from analysis of the full dataset.The YEN now engages with over 300 farms in the UK, plus more across Europe and in Canada, and has expanded to cover seven crops, with new initiatives continually being added. However, funding for the YENs has been piecemeal and limited, relying entirely on industry sponsorship, so there has so far been no large-scale investment in the digital infrastructure needed to properly support the data exchange, visualisations, reporting, and analysis, that would really enhance the experience for YEN users, and would make the YEN concept really scalable to a much broader audience at low cost, tackling any number of issues, not just yield, and enabling new business models for profitable and sustainable expansion of the YENs to be developed.We propose here development of 'Dynamic Benchmarking' to enable growers to easily compare the performance of their systems against similar systems of their choosing. This functionality will be available to all YENs. We will develop YEN-Zero as a new YEN with a far broader remit, available to all growers to calculate and compare greenhouse gas (GHG) intensities of their crops across all their fields. This will drive the collation of a large shared data resource from which ADAS and the community will derive insights and future revenues, from UK and beyond.

英国农业和食品系统面临着新冠肺炎和英国退欧以及减缓和适应气候变化的挑战和机遇。英国农业面临变革在未来几年，农民必须在不同的气候下耕作，净零排放，减少和重新定向补贴支付，英国脱欧后可能的贸易关税，可靠地生产更健康的食品，提高土壤健康，保护受威胁的物种以及空气和水的质量，同时保持商业可行性。实现这一目标的蓝图目前还不存在，只能通过共同努力来制定。英国农业的生产力远远落后于我们的国际竞争对手，部分原因是我们分散的知识和创新体系以及相对缺乏合作和知识与数据共享。可耕地农业在系统地监测其投入、过程和产出（如产量）方面一直很差，因此，尽管田地和农场之间存在巨大的差异，但对提高绩效的“有效措施”的理解有限。自2012年以来，ADAS通过其“农艺学”和“增产网络”（YEN EAN）开创了农业知识生成和交流的新方法，通过合作收集和分享想法和数据，共同学习。YEN非常成功地让农民、顾问、行业和研究人员围绕一个共同的概念框架走到一起，对重要的事情进行测量，分享他们的数据、想法和经验，获得见解和测试决策。一个核心原则是共享相关数据，通过基准报告与同行进行业绩比较;这为种植者提供了分享数据的激励，使他们能够从完整的数据集分析中获得见解。YEN现在与英国的300多个农场合作，以及欧洲和加拿大的更多农场，并已扩展到涵盖七种作物，并不断增加新的举措。然而，YEN的资金一直是零碎和有限的，完全依赖于行业赞助，因此到目前为止，还没有对数字基础设施进行大规模投资，以适当支持数据交换，可视化，报告和分析，这将真正增强YEN用户的体验，并使YEN概念真正以低成本扩展到更广泛的受众，解决任何数量的问题，而不仅仅是产量，并使新的商业模式的盈利和可持续发展的YEN被开发。我们建议在这里开发“动态基准”，使种植者能够轻松地比较他们的系统的性能与他们选择的类似系统。此功能将适用于所有YEN。我们将开发YEN-Zero作为新的YEN，其范围更广，可供所有种植者计算和比较其所有田地作物的温室气体（GHG）强度。这将推动对大型共享数据资源的整理，ADAS和社区将从中获得来自英国及其他地区的见解和未来收入。