Projektsuche

SmartCut: An AI-Based Predictive Model for Determining the Optimal Harvest Time in Grasslands – Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Productivity

Authority

Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Weinbau, Umwelt und Forsten (MLWUF)

Federal State

Rhineland-Palatinate

Contact

Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

SmartCut: An AI-Based Predictive Model for Determining the Optimal Harvest Time in Grasslands – Earth Observation and AI for Sustainable Productivity

Project description

The dairy industry, the economic backbone of the grassland-rich low-mountain regions of the Eifel, Hunsrück, Hochwald, West Palatinate, and Westerwald, is under pressure. In Rhineland-Palatinate (RLP), the number of dairy farms is declining while farm sizes continue to increase, raising demands on farm management. At the same time, milk production fluctuates due to changing environmental conditions and farming practices. To sustain dairy farming and permanent grassland, strategies are needed to improve productivity. Grassland yield and forage quality are key factors for livestock farm efficiency, with mowing time having a major influence on both. This project aims to develop a grassland growth model that helps farmers identify the optimal mowing time by integrating weather data and forecasts, environmental variables such as soil moisture, fertilization practices, and field accessibility.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Keywords

  • Animal husbandry
  • Landscape/land management
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)
  • Fodder and feed
  • Competitiveness/new business models
  • Digitalisation, incl. data and data technologies

Main funding source

Rural development 2023-2027 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 127 of Reg. 2021/2115)

OG contact information

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
Trippstadter Straße 122
67663 Kaiserslautern

Phone: +49 631 20575 7043

Email: Marcela.Charfuelan@dfki.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher
  • business in rural areas

Begin of project

2026

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

1,094,709

NUTS3 CODE

DEB32

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