Machinery cost is the major cost item in farm businesses in highly mechanized production
systems. Moreover, in the last years, high power machines, advanced technologies, higher …

Various sources of biomass contribute significantly in energy production globally given a
series of constraints in its primary production. Green biomass sources (such as perennial …

The rising price of fossil fuel and the increasing environmental concern encourage the use
of biomasses as energy sources. Aim of this study was to compare two poplar SRC and …

Spatial information on crop status and development is required by agricultural managers for
a site specific and adapted management. Here, a prototype of a web application is …

To respond to growing interest in the use of solid biomass as a renewable source, an
integrated web-based spatial platform was developed to help in decision-making for …

Various crops can be considered as potential bioenergy and biofuel production feedstocks.
The selection of the crops to be cultivated for that purpose is based on several factors. For …

A computational tool is developed for the estimation of the energy requirements of
Miscanthus x giganteus on individual fields that includes a detailed analysis and account of …

Capacity planning in agricultural field operations needs to give consideration to the
operational system design which involves the selection and dimensioning of production …

The fieldwork pattern, which is the ordered traversal sequence of in-field tracks by the
machine, plays an important role in operational efficiency. A sub-optimal fieldwork pattern is …

Highlights•Extension of a simulation model for rice-harvesting and transport performance
evaluation.•Potential for reduction of manpower use (h ha− 1) in the range of 12 …