Landbased Engineering

Agricultural (or landbased) engineering represents a much wider definition than just farm mechanisation and is now being taken to mean the appliance of science, engineering and technology to the land and biological systems.

Topic areas covered by this definition include:

  • Soil & water management
  • Power & machinery
  • Forestry engineering
  • Horticultural engineering
  • Amenity (including professional turf care)
  • Environment
  • Waste to land
  • Land use planning
  • Remote sensing
  • Precision farming
  • Rural engineering
  • Farm structures
  • Animal production
  • Food processing and engineering
  • Post harvest
  • Bioresource engineering

History

The history of agricultural engineering dates back to the use of the first tool to till the earth. Since these early days of agriculture, man has been looking for ways to mechanise the various processes involved in crop, food and animal production and agricultural mechanisation is still a key component on what we understand to be agricultural engineering.

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