Pig farmers situated nearby an urban area often receive complaints from neighbors about odor and too much transport due to the slurry that needs to be transported. At Eerola pig production a biological slurry treatment unit is the answer. The unit ensures that odor is reduced and less slurry needs to be transported from [...]
A multi-actor investment support team and an online blog helped the Finnish farmer Merja Keisala at Keisala farm through the process of building an economically viable barn. The Investment Support Team is an example of how an advisory service can help a farm run a large investment. A farmer builds a barn only a [...]
Tikka farm, a large organic dairy farm in Kurikka, Western Finland, needed to build a new barn. The farmers contacted a Finnish architect who won an architectural competition with his new Feed Wall model. The farmers liked the new way of feeding as it seemed to reduce the construction costs and hygienic risks. The [...]
What influences agricultural innovation in Guadeloupe? How do factors such as the environment, the innovation process, and actors and networks impact the innovation process? What improvements could be made? The French Cross Visit to Guadeloupe provided pearls, puzzles and proposals. The Pearls – Things that Work In terms of the environment, the fact that [...]
60% of all honey consumed in Guadeloupe is imported despite the fact that good local honey is available. However, pest pressure from the mite Varroa causes high mortality among hives and impacts the production. There is no beekeeping research to resolve it. The current objective is to maintain and improve beekeepers’ income by stabilizing [...]
In 2012, the citrus greening disease rapidly infested the Guadeloupe Island, killing lemon, orange and other citrus trees. As it seemed complicated to eradicate the disease completely, new cultural practices to preserve production and coping with the citrus greening have been developed. In response to the citrus greening disease, eradication and diversification solutions have [...]
In Guadeloupe, the local authorities wish to preserve the local yam production, despite the strong competition from the imported yams from Central America and Costa Rica. There are two main problems in achieving this goal: firstly, the difficulty of dealing with outbreak of the disease anthracnose and secondly the lack of a farmers’ organization [...]
What can support services do to stimulate innovations at farm level? The method and manual for how to succeed with supporting innovation processes via the Cross Visit method are now finalized. In the context of AgriSpin, mixed teams, composed of colleagues from partner organisations in AgriSpin, have visited different regions of Europe during 3-5 [...]
Who plays an important role during the innovation process? What determines whether an innovation process is successful? And how are innovative ideas generated? The pearls from the Danish Cross Visit were manifold. The puzzles also provided food for thought. The Pearls: What Was Striking About the Innovation Cases? The Role of the Farmer In [...]
The LIFE Seedcapital project was started in 2013. The project aimed at increasing sustainability at farm level by extracting rapeseed oil to replace diesel fuel in agricultural machinery. Also, using the residual cake as feed results in lower methane emissions from the livestock because the cake has a higher fat content. How the Innovation [...]
