An inventory of demonstration activities in Denmark
En oversigt over demonstrationsaktiviteter i Danmark
In Denmark the majority of on-farm demonstrations are organised by local extension services and farmer organisations. Extension services organise field events showing solutions for current problems in crops or barns, on commercial farms.
Farmers’ organisations often focus on more general but practical farm-centric topics like nature, nitrogen leaching, soil fertility, or new barn designs.
The farm demonstrations are usually organized by the local advisors, who occasionally invite country ex-perts from SEGES, and scientists from agricultural universities.
Sometimes the farm demonstrations are finalized over a cup of coffee, where more general topics like sys-tem change or economy are discussed.
The farms chosen for the demonstrations are usually different from year to year, however when the demon-stration concerns a perennial issue or development of innovation which evolves over the years, the same farm can be used several years in a row.
Besides these there are organised farm demonstrations by industrial companies, showing their new prod-ucts and their potentials. The topics for these on-farm demonstrations are usually the attempt to inform the farmers about innovative mechanical ideas, new fertilizer or pest disease control, varieties for cereals, grass, rapeseed, etc..
I Danmark organiseres de fleste demonstrationer af de lokale rådgivningscentre eller landmandsorganisatio-ner. Rådgivningscentrene organiserer markvandringer, hvor løsninger på landbrugsmæssige udfordringer fremvises på kommercielle landbrug.
Landmandsorganisationerne fokuserer ofte på mere generelle med praktiske landbrugsemner såsom natur, kvælstofudvaskning, jordfrugtbarhed eller nye stalddesigns.
Oftest er demonstrationerne organiseret af de lokale rådgivere, som indimellem inviterer landskonsulenter fra SEGES eller forskere fra landbrugsuniversiteter.
Nogle gange afrundes demonstrationen over en kop kaffe, hvor mere generelle emner såsom systemsæn-dringer eller økonomi diskuteres.
De gårde der udvælges til demonstrationerne er oftest forskellige fra år til år. Dog kan demonstrationer afholdes på den samme bedrift flere år i træk, hvis de omhandler flerårige emner.
Der organiseres desuden demonstrationer af industrielle virksomheder, der fremviser deres nye produkter. Her er hensigten oftest at informere landmændene om innovative mekaniske ideer, nye gødningstyper, plan-tebeskyttelse, sorter mm.
PLAID Peer-to-Peer learning:accessing innovation through demonstration
Ongoing | 2017-2019
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- United Kingdom
Project Keywords
- Aquaculture
- Arable crops
- Organic farming
- Agro-ecology
- Crop rotation/crop diversification/dual-purpose or mixed cropping
- Animal husbandry
- Animal welfare
- Biodiversity and nature
- Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)
- Energy
- Competitiveness/new business models
- Farm diversification
- Fodder and feed
- Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
- Greenhouse crops
- Soil
- Digitalisation, incl. data and data technologies