The archives of this newsletter
See: http://www.informatique-agricole.org/category/gazette-efita/


Old Ads - Ads We'll Definitely Never See Again
See: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2012/03/ads-well-never-see-again.html
Those were the Good Old Days when women knew how to spoil a man!
I particularly like the one advocating "sanitized tapeworms" to banish fat.
Contact: Mick HARLIN
E-mail: harkin(a)iol.ie


A congress of baboons! Anthropomorphic Nouns (stupid but funny anti-parliament feeling)
See: http://thefamily.com/tag/anthropomorphic-nouns/


New Version: Homologa™, the Global Crop Protection Database of MRLs and current product registrations
6 – 8 February – BERLIN (Fruit Logistica)

Spotting risks in the food chain is a daily challenge faced by growers, importers, producers, retailers, laboratories and regulators. It is a task made all the more difficult by having to wade through endless reports, other information sources (often in foreign languages) and trying to compare the results of this search cross-country just to find the bits that might apply to you.

The regulatory framework concerning the occurrence of pesticide residues (MRLs) is changing. The standardization of the MRLs for EU members helps but there is still the problem with registered versus expired (last use/expire date) agrochemicals. Sometimes no MRL exists but there are still agrochemicals in use with this active substance in the country.

Homologa is set to change all that. Available for use in primary production by product and regulatory managers, researchers, laboratories and agricultural consultants, and in the food industry by retailers, food processors and food chain managers, Homologa provides agronomic information including the current pesticide product approval status (expired agrochemicals are also included) of over five dozen countries together with the MRLs, to support strategic business decisions and ensure compliance within the prevailing regulatory frameworks.

Homologa facilitates the access to regulatory data and hence saves important resources to its subscribers. There are numerous examples in which Homologa has been used to resolve critical problems. Subscribers can search online for expired and registered crop protection products as well as their associated MRLs in several countries in a single report. There is also the possibility to receive alert e-mails when registrations or MRLs change. In addition, the new version of Homologa provides access to product label information for many countries and companies. The database can also be used for the search of available pest-solutions for Minor Uses.

The Homologa Team and its collaborators update the database constantly. Today the mark of 7 000 000 lines of registration data is passed and will continue to increase further.

For more details, please have a look at the following presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1HQKegXHdE

It is also possible to get a free trial access to Homologa.

Agrobase-Logigram will attend Fruit Logisitica 2013 in Berlin as part of the GlobalGAP booth D-09 in Hall 5.2.
Interested visitors are very welcome.
Contact: Agrobase-Logigram Team
E-mail: homologa-info(a)agrobase-logigram.com


Challenges Facing Young European Farmers - Joris Baeke, CEJA President
See: http://www.vieuws.eu/
food-agriculture/challenges-facing-young-european-farmers-joris-baeke-ceja-president/


Brussels Briefing on Environment – January 2013
See: http://www.vieuws.eu/brussels-briefings/brussels-briefing-on-environment-january-2013/


Brussels Briefing on Agriculture; the Irish Presidency, MEP’s CAP demands, and the MFF and the CAP
See: http://www.vieuws.eu/brussels-briefings/brussels-briefing-on-agriculture-january-2013/


The EFITA sponsored e-Book “ICT in Agriculture: Perspectives of Technological Innovation”
In 2012 it has been accessed more than 600k times – 13% better than 2011. An encouraging support for our EFITA New Year’s ICT adoption development plans. Hopefully more chapters will be updated and perhaps some new chapters added - both in time to be included in discussions during the 2013 EFITA conference this June in Torino.
Your insights, updates and additions, are solicited and will be most welcome.
See: http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/gelb-main.html
Contact: Ehud GELB
E-mail: ehud.gelb(a)mail.huji.ac.il


Introducing the agINFRA Project – A New Infrastructure for Data-Intensive Agricultural Sciences
agINFRA is an FP7 Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project working to introduce scientific communities in the domain of agriculture to the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. agINFRA is designed to remove obstacles block open access to scientific information and data in agriculture as well as improve the preparedness of agricultural scientific communities to face, manage and exploit the abundance of relevant data that is available to support agricultural research. Ultimately, agINFRA will demonstrate how a data infrastructure for agricultural scientific communities is set up to facilitate data generation, provenance, quality assessment, certification, curation, annotation navigation and management.

The agINFRA Project is now in its second year and has developed a high-quality data infrastructure with demonstrator services available through our Science Gateway. The project is looking for members of the agricultural community to provide feedback on our work and participate in shaping the agINFRA solution.
See: http://aginfra-sg.ct.infn.it/
See: http://aginfra.eu/images/aginfra%202nd%20newsletter.pdf
Contact: Miguel-Angel SICILIA
E-mail: msicilia(a)uah.es


Drinking & Driving

Friends, Romans, Countrymen,

I would like to share a personal experience with my closest friends about drinking and driving.

As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from an occasional social session over the years.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for an evening with friends and had a couple of cocktails and some rather nice red wine.

Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before. I took a cab home. Sure enough, I passed a police road block but, since it was a cab, they waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise as I have never driven a cab before and am not sure where I got it or what to do with it now that it's in my garage.


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