Automatic milking
JTI - Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
JTI - Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering is an industrial research institute working with research, development and information in agriculture, environment, energy production and waste management. For companies and authorities this means better data for use in decision-making, reduced environmental loading and wiser use of natural resources.
JTI has close links with industry. One of our trustees
is the Foundation for Agricultural and Environmental Research, with more
than sixty affiliated companies and organisations, see p.30. The other
trustee is the State, represented by FORMAS (the Swedish Research Council
for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning). Earlier the
State was represented by SJFR (Swedish Council for Forestry and
Agricultural Research), which has now become part of FORMAS.
About thirty percent of our programme is financed by these two trustees.
The remainder is financed by research funds and commissioned projects.
Cooperation with industry has given JTI the unique role we have today as a broad resource for research and development but also as a link between research and industry. We also cooperate with about thirty other industrial research institutes, all working within different branches. Together we form IRIS (Industrial Research Institutes in Sweden). The goal of the industrial research institutes is to develop new technology and to strengthen the competitive ability of industry and commerce.
The term technology runs through all our activities -
knowledge of IT, sensors, machine technology, process technology, etc., as
well as the ability to introduce technology into a certain
situation.
We work with handling systems and farm systems. One example is milk
production. New production systems as well as in-creased requirements on
ethics, cleanliness and high milk quality in all kinds of milk production
lead to increased focus on technology, routines and systems.
This is noticeable in JTI having continuously increased its activities in
this sector over the years. Among other things, JTI is working with
automatic milking (AMS) and how milk quality is affected by AMS.
Other examples are the handling of animal manure from the animal in the
barn up to spreading and utilisation of plant nutrients, systems of
precision cropping and handling of grain from harvest to the processed
product.
We also link urban and rural contexts in our work with organic residues.
How can organic residues from both agriculture and society be collected
and processed, and how can the plant nutrients in this material be
returned to agriculture?
An important part of this is the role played by mankind in relation to
technology, where, for example, inner and outer environments, as well as
safety are involved. Production economy is also an important
consideration. JTI's work largely concerns finding more efficient methods
and routines which will enable raw materials for foodstuffs, etc., to be
produced with consideration to the environment and ethics, at the same
time as increasingly severe competition is being encountered.
AddressJTI - Swedish Institute of
Agricultural and Environmental Engineering contact person: Dr C. Benfalk |
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