CyberGrass-projects final seminar will be held at Seinäjoki, Finland on 21 September 2022. Pre-registration is required. You can also participate the event on Microsoft Teams. Because of the coffee serving, if you are participating on the event venue, please register before 15.9.

When: 21.9.2022 at 9:30-12:00

Where: Frami B, Seinäjoki (Kampusranta 9, 60320 Seinäjoki, Finland) or Teams

Who: everyone interested

Registeration link

The event will present the first results of the project.

The quality and quantity of silage sward yield are very significant factors in milk and beef production. In the CyberGrass project, the quantity and quality of silage production swards are assessed by means of measuring from swards reflected radiation data collected by drones and satellites. The Natural Resources Institute and the Finnish Land Survey's Geospatial Information Centre have already had encouraging results in evaluating both quality characteristics and biomass quantity of silage grass swards. Imaging has been carried out in summer 2021 and especially this past summer on farms in Southern Ostrobothnia in cooperation with ProAgria South Ostrobothnia. The project, funded by Interreg Botnia Atlantica, involves expertise in satellite monitoring from the Swedish Agricultural University's Umeå Röbäcksdalen unit as well as practical farms through the Norbotten — Västerbotten Agricultural Advisory Organisation. The project aims to refine the functionality of the Karpe harvesting time model in predicting digestibility of silage sward biomass to be more site-specific.

Program (Finnish time):

09:30-10:00 Coffee

10:00-10:10 Opening

10:10-10:15 Efficient grass silage production is key factor in dairy and beef production farm 

10:15-10:30 Grass yields on pilot farms and in experiments in Ostrobothnia and in Västerbotten in 2021

10:30-10:45 Silage sward yield estimation by drone imaging 

10:45-11:00 Sward yield estimation by satellite data

11:00-11:10 Break

11:10-11:25 Development of Karpe grass D-value and yield estimation model

11:25-11:40 Decision support systems concept for grass sward management

11:40-11:50 Info of the new  Interreg Aurora programme

11:50-12:00 Discussion

12:00 End of the event