3 July 2025
Many important meetings with farmers, innovators, and decision-makers. That sums up the Brunnby Agricultural Days in Västerås. And also the demonstration of what autonomous vehicles can do in the field.
Just back from the Brunnby Agricultural Days, the representatives of Agtech Sweden and the knowledge hub for digitalization in agriculture, Karolina Muhrman and Per Frankelius, note that meeting in person is important.
“It is absolutely crucial. We get the opportunity to spread the knowledge we have from research and from the various projects we participate in or follow in different ways. At the same time, the meetings provide new personal contacts within the industry. We have fruitful discussions with farmers, technology suppliers, decision-makers, and various experts in, for example, entrepreneurship, economics, cultivation, and technology,” says Karolina Muhrman.
They organized seminars together with several of the actors within the Agtech and knowledge hub networks. The seminars focused, among other things, on technology development and preparedness in agriculture, on solar energy use in farming, and on how farms can cope with disruptions in the power grid.
Per Frankelius moderated several panel discussions with the major suppliers of tractors, agricultural machinery, and implements.
“Some of the big questions there concern how data about, for example, weather and soil conditions is stored, as well as how agriculture is affected by the shutdown of the first generations of mobile networks. Or the self-driving agricultural machines that are on the rise,” says Per Frankelius.
The demonstration of autonomous vehicles attracted great interest. Among others, Agxeed showcased the only autonomous implement carrier currently available on the Swedish market.
In addition, several other systems were presented, including those from Massey Ferguson, Cameleon, Horsch, and Einböck. And then the new Drever 120 from Traktorarvid – a fully electric, autonomous implement carrier.
“It’s not certain that everyone realizes how fantastic it is to see all these autonomous machines at the same time. This is a historic demonstration of autonomous agricultural machinery. Agriculture is heading into something completely new,” comments Per Frankelius.
The Brunnby Agricultural Days – central Sweden’s largest agricultural fair – attracted just over 7,000 visitors. The opening ceremony was attended by Minister for Rural Affairs Peter Kullgren.
Text and photo by Ulrik Svedin.
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