Handbook Digital Farming

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Dörr holds the chair of "Digital Farming" at TU Kaiserslautern. Furthermore, he is member of the extended institute management of Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern. In this position, he is responsible for the research programs of the institute and leads the Smart Farming research program.Dr. Matthias Nachtmann as chairperson of the Friends of Digital Farming e.V. supports promotion of talents, research, development and testing of new technologies. He is business model expert with BASF SE, Agricultural Solutions and responsible to identify, support and scale sustainable business models in Europe.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Framework for the Digital Transformation of the Agricultural Ecosystem.- 3. Technology Perspective.- 4. Agronomy Perspective.- 5. Farming System Perspective,- 6. Sustainability Perspective.- 7. Summary.