AardappelWereldVisie Open data: PW-ACTUA curse or blessing? Open data is a term we use for indicating freely-available information. There’s a great deal of open data available for the agricultural sector, the only thing is that very little has actually reached the sector. There are good reasons for publishing open data. The government is aiming to make the Netherlands more transparent and innovative, and in this process, data is the digital lubrication oil of the 21st century. Data offers such excellent opportunities for our sector! Crop-R, our crop registration system, has been using open data for a number of years now. Examples are BRP (Basic Registration Plots), AAN (Agricultural Area Netherlands) and other official data. The purpose of the system is to minimise manual information and data input as much as possible. For most people in the sector, the launch of the www.boerenbunder.nl web site has made really visible how much open data there is available. At a glance, the site shows the size of a plot, the crop being grown, and the type of soil. Since the end of October, thousands of users have visited the site and hundreds of thousands of plots have been inspected. Spectacular! But there were also critical reactions. Isn’t it very easy to misuse this open data? And what about privacy? So it’s good to know that the open data on the Boerenbunder web site has been officially released by the government and that all this data could have been requested for many years without any problem. The government carefully weighs the publication of open data. Just take a look on https://data.overheid.nl. By making data more easily accessible and distributable, farmers can work and communicate more efficiently and make the business they’re so proud of more visible. We’re very interested to hear how farmers and other parties are going to use open data and what ideas come up in 2016 about any other uses the system could provide. ● Ivor Bosloper CTO Crop-R ‘With the new pressure exchanger, the tyre pressure can be changed from 3 bars for road transport back to 1.5 bars for work in the field and vice versa within 5 minutes’, Henk van der Peet tells us. H.W. van der Peet & Zn, Logistics & Transport Solutions, from the Dutch village of Nieuwkoop has introduced a special model to its programme. It’s a belt trailer with various extras. For example, this model is equipped with special low pressure tyres and wheels that have a pressure exchanger for the tyre pressure. In less than 5 minutes, the tyre pressure can be changed from 3 bars back to 1.5 bars for work in the field and vice versa. The height of the wheel axle is adjustable and a pneumatic side has been mounted in order be able to load more easily from the lifter into the trailer with a minimum of product damage. According to Managing Director Henk van der Peet there’s an increasing number of transporters such as the factories that are still arranging their supplies direct from the farm and who are replacing the farm tractor and kipper by lorry tractors with trailers. The fuel usage of a lorry tractor is 70 percent lower per kilometre than that of a farm tractor, Van der Peet knows. The choice is quickly made, especially if it concerns transport over long distances, the director laughs. With a loading capacity of 175 tons per hour, a 35 ton load is unloaded within 12 minutes. An advanced trailer such as this particular one costs approximately 90,000 euros. ● Belt trailer constructed with pressure exchanger for tyre pressure In the Netherlands and Belgium, they aren’t yet being used so much, but there are also countries in the world where growers harvest their potatoes and other produce, when soil conditions are suitable, straight into the lorry (trailers) for transport by road. This sometimes requires customised trailers. 8 Potato World 2016 • number 1 Pagina 7
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