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Application of Modern Agricultural Equipment in Crop Cultivation
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Application of Modern Agricultural Equipment in Crop Cultivation

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 3423

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Prof. Dr. Jacek Przybył

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Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Interests: modern agricultural equipment; use of agricultural machinery; digital-smart agriculture; engineering of crop production processes; postharvest technologies and process engineering; sustainable agriculture; biosystems engineering
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Dr. Dawid Wojcieszak

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Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Interests: modern agricultural equipment; use of agricultural machinery; postharvest technologies and process engineering; biomass energy; biosystems engineering
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The agricultural industry faces many challenges; the most important is increasing food production, which results from population growth projections, food production’s relationship with nature, and the vision for climate-neutral and resource-saving agricultural practices.

The answer to these challenges is sustainable agriculture, which combines the best of conventional technology with concepts of precision agriculture and digital technologies. Conventional agricultural technology has solutions that, in ultra-shallow tillage, conservation tillage, and strip-till technologies, increase soil carbon storage, store CO2 from the atmosphere in plants, and reduce its emissions. On the other hand, running a farm using precision farming technologies and digital techniques to monitor and optimize agricultural production processes allows farmers to, among other things, accurately perform sowing, fertilization, and crop protection, reduce their carbon footprint, and minimize their labor inputs.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to discuss a wide range of theoretical and experimental research works related to agricultural production processes where tangible benefits have been achieved through the implementation of modern agricultural engineering solutions, for example, a reduction in CO2 emissions, a reduction in energy inputs, a reduction in seed, fertilizer, and pesticide use, an increase in yield, or a reduction in production costs. This Special Issue welcomes all types of articles.

Prof. Dr. Jacek Przybył
Dr. Dawid Wojcieszak
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • modern agricultural equipment
  • technology to improve soil hygiene
  • ultra-shallow tillage
  • conservation technology
  • sustainable agriculture
  • precision agriculture and digital technologies
  • techniques for reducing energy inputs
  • labour-intensive and cost-reducing technologies
  • reduction in CO2 emissions
  • agricultural technology increasing carbon storage in the soil

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Design and Experiment of Automatic Transport System for Planting Plate in Plant Factory
by Dongdong Jia, Wenzhong Guo, Lichun Wang, Wengang Zheng and Guohua Gao
Agriculture 2024, 14(3), 488; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14030488 - 17 Mar 2024
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In the plant factories using stereoscopic cultivation systems, the cultivation plate transport equipment is an essential component of production. However, there are problems, such as high labor intensity, low levels of automation, and poor versatility of existing solutions, that can affect the efficiency [...] Read more.
In the plant factories using stereoscopic cultivation systems, the cultivation plate transport equipment is an essential component of production. However, there are problems, such as high labor intensity, low levels of automation, and poor versatility of existing solutions, that can affect the efficiency of cultivation plate transport processes. To address these issues, this study designed a cultivation plate transport system that can automatically input and output cultivation plates, and can flexibly adjust its structure to accommodate different cultivation frame heights. We elucidated the working principles of the transport system and carried out structural design and parameter calculation for the lift cart, input actuator, and output actuator. In the input process, we used dynamic simulation technology to obtain an optimum propulsion speed of 0.3 m·s−1. In the output process, we used finite element numerical simulation technology to verify that the deformation of the cultivation plate and the maximum stress suffered by it could meet the operational requirements. Finally, operation and performance experiments showed that, under the condition of satisfying the allowable amount of positioning error in the horizontal and vertical directions, the horizontal operation speed was 0.2 m·s−1, the maximum positioning error was 2.87 mm, the vertical operation speed was 0.3 m·s−1, and the maximum positioning error was 1.34 mm. Accordingly, the success rate of the transport system was 92.5–96.0%, and the operational efficiency was 176–317 plates/h. These results proved that the transport system could meet the operational requirements and provide feasible solutions for the automation of plant factory transport equipment. Full article
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Development of an Orchard Mowing and Sweeping Device Based on an ADAMS–EDEM Simulation
by Shuai Shen, Yichuan He, Zhihui Tang, Yameng Dai, Yu Wang and Jiaxin Ma
Agriculture 2023, 13(12), 2276; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13122276 - 15 Dec 2023
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In the context of cutting grass in orchards, the practice of leaving cut weeds in the orchard rows hinders the decomposition of the weeds and the absorption of nutrients by the fruit trees. To address this issue, a grass-cutting machine with an integrated [...] Read more.
In the context of cutting grass in orchards, the practice of leaving cut weeds in the orchard rows hinders the decomposition of the weeds and the absorption of nutrients by the fruit trees. To address this issue, a grass-cutting machine with an integrated sweeping disc was designed to remove weeds from orchard rows and sweep them to the roots of the trees to promote their absorption of nutrients. A coupled simulation platform was established using multi-body dynamics ADAMS and the discrete element method EDEM. The weed-shedding and sweeping device was dynamically analyzed through an ADAMS–EDEM collaborative simulation that enabled the use of a second-order regression orthogonal rotation experiment and response surface methodology. The optimal parameters for the cutting tools, cutter shaft speed, and the number of cutting tools included 23 cutting tools arranged in a single helical pattern for the cutting device, a cutter shaft speed of 728 rpm, and claw-shaped blades as the cutting tools. A prototype machine was built based on the optimized parameters and tested in the field. The results indicated that, when there were 250 m² of weeds, the cutting rate reached 92.96%. The machine was highly maneuverable, and the average remaining weed height in the orchard was 110 mm, which met the national standards and local agricultural requirements. The new orchard grass-cutting and sweeping device meets the technical demands of orchard grass operations in the Xinjiang region of China. Full article
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Research on a Hydraulic Cylinder Pressure Control Method for Efficient Traction Operation in Electro-Hydraulic Hitch System of Electric Tractors
by Zhenhao Luo, Jihang Wang, Jing Wu, Shengli Zhang, Zhongju Chen and Bin Xie
Agriculture 2023, 13(8), 1555; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13081555 - 03 Aug 2023
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The tractor is the primary power device of the agricultural production process. For the problem that the traditional electro-hydraulic hitch control method for tractors cannot simultaneously meet the requirements of maintaining a constant ploughing depth and improving traction performance and electric tractor overall [...] Read more.
The tractor is the primary power device of the agricultural production process. For the problem that the traditional electro-hydraulic hitch control method for tractors cannot simultaneously meet the requirements of maintaining a constant ploughing depth and improving traction performance and electric tractor overall efficiency, this paper proposes a hydraulic cylinder pressure control method of the electro-hydraulic hitch system for electric tractors. We establish a tractor-implement system dynamic model, calculate the rear axle load of the tractor in real-time according to the actual working parameters under the premise of ensuring the constant ploughing depth, construct a traction performance objective optimization function, and use the genetic algorithm to solve the optimal hydraulic cylinder pressure value of the electro-hydraulic hitch system. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation results show that the electric tractor under the traditional position control method and the hydraulic cylinder pressure control method has an average wheel slip of 18.50% and 16.93%, an average traction efficiency of 71.35% and 73.08%, and an average overall efficiency of 50.81% and 52.40%. The hydraulic cylinder pressure control method proposed in this paper reduces the wheel slip by 9.27%, increases the traction efficiency by 2.42%, improves the electric tractor overall efficiency by 3.13%, and reduces the electric tractor overall energy loss by 7.67% compared with the traditional position-control method. Therefore, the hydraulic cylinder pressure control method of the electro-hydraulic hitch system proposed in this paper can achieve the purpose of effectively improving tractor traction performance and reducing tractor energy loss while maintaining a constant ploughing depth. This study offers technological references for electric tractors to improve traction performance and reduce the overall energy loss of electric tractors. Full article
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