Workshops

The 2009 SIMA programme of workshops on specific themes aims to act as a decision-aiding tool for our farming visitors: one that will now take part of the framework for sustainable agriculture."

Partners of the workshops of the SIMA :

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SIMA Workshops in brief

• Workshops will take place in a special "meeting room" at the heart of the hall 7
• 30 workshops during the exhibition
• Workshops in French and English

Provisional workshop schedule divided into themes (as at 2 October 2008)

Energy saving

Tractors and saving fuel (with Fncuma, France's national federation of agricultural machinery cooperatives)
Saving energy when heating water for my farm
Energy diagnosis (with the ADEME, France's environment and energy management agency)
Cost accounting of the milk tank precooler / tubular exchanger

Methanisation

Existing technologies
The secret to making a methanisation project work

Photovoltaic panels

Reducing my investment costs
Investing or hiring out my roof

Wood energy

Granules or pieces of wood
Choosing a shredder (proposal to area Contractors for a contribution in this workshop)
The wood energy market

Agroforestry

Maintaining output while creating a landscape

Solar drying

Drying hay using the sun

Fertilisation / composting / waste treatment

Waste composting, a top initiative to save on fertilisers

Small wind generation systems

Small wind turbines used in farming

Biomass

Short rotational cropping for treating water and generating energy
Ligno-cellulosic culture production and soil potential (Picardie's regional chamber of agriculture / RMT Biomasse)
The biomass potential of biomass cultures and annual cultures (Arvalis)
How to evaluate the exportable potential of straw on a farm? (Arvalis)
Tools for evaluating deposits per region (Arvalis)
Biolacq, straw, corn sugar and wood for generating steam and electricity - feedback (Arvalis)