Although previous research programs have yielded valuable knowledge that can help sugar beet growers to innovate farming processes, actual transfer of this knowledge to the growers so far is lacking. Currents ways of knowledge transfer do not match learning styles, personal traits or the social environment …

Redesigning IT systems for specific user groups encompasses a lot of effort with respect to analysing and understanding user behaviour. The goal of this paper is to provide insights into patterns of behaviour of agricultural users, during the usage of a decision support system called OPTIRas (TM). This …

De bedrijfsvoering in de landbouw moet zich steeds innoveren om aan te sluiten bij eisen aan producten en effecten op milieu. Kennis en gegevens van bedrijfsvoering zal bij die innovatie gebruikt moeten worden. Op de korte termijn zal een verbeterde overdracht van bestaande generieke kennis hierbij een …

Field experiments were carried out in 1991 and 1992 on sandy soil highly infested with the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. Half the trial area was fumigated with nematicide to establish two levels of nematode density. Three levels of soil compaction were made by different combinations of artificial …