Abstract: A method for controlling an agricultural installation for small and medium livestock farming includes the steps of: acquiring at least one sensor signal of a sensor device of the agricultural installation configured for measuring a process or state variable in the agricultural installation; acquiring a plurality of further sensor signals from locally in the agricultural installation or from sensor devices distributed locally in another agricultural installation, wherein the distributed sensor devices are configured to measure process or state variables; storing the acquired sensor signals as cloud data in a cloud computing device; evaluating the sensor signal with an evaluation module, wherein the evaluation module is part of a control device of the agricultural installation and/or of a cloud computing device and wherein the evaluation takes at least a portion of the stored cloud data into consideration in order to verify the sensor signal in relation to the stored cloud data.