AU Agricultural Technology Program

Grand Challenge

Low emission in agriculture

Aarhus University is developing and optimising new cost-effective technologies for achieving low-emission emission technology.

Grand Challenge

Smart farming

Aarhus University is advancing Precision Farming to Smart Farming as a key enabling technology and management system for a sustainable agricultural production and food chain

Grand Challenge

Biorefinery technologies

What's happening

Reduced odour from pig farms

Researchers at Aarhus University have led a project on biological air purification for pigsties in combination with local exhaust ventilation. The hope is to reduce the nuisance caused by odour from pig farms significantly.

Robots invade farmland

An increasing number of farming operations in the field are taken over by robots because many agricultural implements have become so automatic that they can do the job on their own.

Sugar in your slurry, anyone?

Agriculture can probably halve emissions of harmful ammonia by adding sugar to the slurry. New research from Aarhus University suggests that sugar can replace sulphuric acid as a method of reducing ammonia emissions - to the benefit of organic farming and biogas production.

Think Big (Data) in agriculture

Computer technology has changed the way businesses operate, and it has an increasingly profound impact on farming. In a project with a budget of DKK 100 million, researchers and companies innovate to improve competitiveness in future Danish agricultural crop production using big data.