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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 11 August 2014 EFITA newsletter / 659 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment 
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Sustainability, Genetics, and Future Cultivars Workshop (too late!) 7 August – MINNEAPOLIS Join Us for a Unique Workshop with Leading Experts Focused on New Technologies and the Future Food Supply Come hear about the latest technology in new food and feed crops and their potential benefits across the entire supply chain. Led by experts in their fields, this workshop will include an overview of: - current plant breeding technologies for grains and oil seeds - new crops and their potential food and feed benefits -the challenges associated with increased yields - dealing with new or emerging plant diseases - changes in crops and ingredients - managing new traits - improved quality opportunities - new approaches in technologies and methods for molecular detection to manage authentication in the supply chain You’ll have the opportunity to discuss recent developments with others working on or impacted by these issues and gain the knowledge and insight to assess information in the popular press and on the Internet. See: http://www.apsnet.org/meetings/topicalmeetings/Pages/SGFCWorkshop.aspx Farm Progress Show 26 – 28 August – BOONE (IO) Don't miss the 2014 Farm Progress Show, held Aug. 26-28 in Boone, Iowa, on its impressive permanent facility! The nation's largest outdoor farm event hosts 600+ exhibitors displaying the latest farm equipment, tractors and combines, seed and crop protection products, additional farm supplies and services; field demonstrations; latest technology and more. See: http://farmprogressshow.com/ 17th Symposium on PA Research and Application in Australasia 2 - 3 September 214 - the AAMI Stadium, ADELAIDE, South Australia Research papers and research into practice presentations covering aspects relevant to broadacre cropping, viticulture and horticulture will be presented on both days. In addition to the program there will be a comprehensive trade display. This is a great opportunity for PA practitioners from researchers, agronomy, industry on-farm to meet and learn from each other. See: http://www.spaa.com.au See: http://www.sydney.edu.au/agriculture/pal Contact: Emma LEONARD Mél : emma.leonard(a)bigpond.com Co-Creating Knowledge with Farmers: Re-imagining Research Relationships - International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) 16 - 25 September - YC James Yen Center Campus, Silang, Cavite, PHILIPPINES The 10-day course will provide a framework for an effective collaboration between farmers, extension professionals and scientists to co-create knowledge that will ensure farmers participation in the design, planning and implementation of agricultural field research and extension that are mutually owned by all actors concerned. Participants will learn to appreciate farmers’ roles and the use of participatory methods and tools to come up with a simple research design that can be mutually implemented by farmers and researchers/extension agents. Participants will also learn to consider farmers’ perspectives and use of local and indigenous knowledge in actively implementing and monitoring agricultural researches. See: http://www.iirr.org/index.php/trainings Contact : Dulce DOMINGUEZ E-mail: dulce.dominguez(a)iirr.org Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture The world's most influential event for the future of sustainable agriculture. ICT is a major stream within the GFIA… 9-10 March 2015 - ABU DHABI, UAE See: http://www.innovationsinagriculture.com/
10 steps to an integrated ICT concept for complete countries PROGIS presented at the WCCA Congress, 27.-30.7.2014 the topic “10 steps to an integrated ICT concept for complete countries” as well as joined the roundtable “IT Innovation” together with Seishi Ninomiya, University of Tokyo, Japan, Gerhard Schiefer, University of Bonn, Germany, Pete Vergot III, University of Florida, USA under the moderation of Fedro Zazueta, INFITA and University of Florida, USA. Further we will organize within the GFIA – Global Forum for Innovation in Agriculture - in Abu Dhabi, 9.-10.3.2015 an embedded “e-agriculture” session; please reserve the date and if you are interested to present to the topic “e-agriculture” outstanding innovations or want to exhibit with your company, feel free to contact me. After close to 3.500 visitors an 126 exhibitors from 31 countries in 2014 we expect a doubling in 2015. Contact: Walter MAYER E-mail: mayer(a)progis.com Future Internet and the FIspace Platform for Agri-Food business at WCCA2014 (Sjaak Wolfert) Presentation that was held at the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 29 July 2014 San Jose, Costa Rica. See: http://fr.slideshare.net/SjaakWolfert/future-internet-and-the-fispace-platform-for-agrifood-business-at-wcca2014 Reducing risk and improving sustainability - ICT can contribute to this (Sjaak Wolfert) Short presentation for a a panel discussion on reducing risk and improving sustainability and how ICT can contribute to this. This presentation was part of the... See: http://fr.slideshare.net/SjaakWolfert/reducing-risk-and-improving-sustainability-ict-can-contribute-to-this Kinze, Raven developing monitor solution Kinze has announced that through a partnership with Raven, they are in development of a standalone monitor solution for Kinze 4900 series planters. The goal will be to eliminate reliance on ISOBUS and other manufacturers’ software. See: http://farmindustrynews.com/planters/kinze-raven-developing-monitor-solution Fuse Technologies by the AGCO’s Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) department See: http://www.agcocorp.com/products/precision_farming.aspx New precision ag tool from Beck’s Beck’s has announced it launched a new tool called FARMserver, which is a web-based solution for data management. See: http://farmindustrynews.com/new-precision-ag-tool-beck-s Imagineering Results Analysis Co Precision Ag: 2014 Yield Projections for Mercer County, OH- Corn Yield In Step with USDA Estimates; Soybean Yield will Fail to meet Estimates. The hottest topic in the agriculture dialog these days is yield. While some experts question the USDA methodology in the establishment of the actual acres planted, it is clear that Yield prediction involves a series of variables that are dynamic in... See: http://www.imagineeringresults.com/#!Precision-Ag-2014-Yield-Projections-for-Mercer-County-OH--Corn-Yield-In-Step-with-USDA-Estimates-Soybean-Yield-will-Fail-to-meet-Estimates/c1scz/60300740-CC8E-404F-8A86-AE59AA5FA92F Our data analytics company is designing models for farming phenomenology. The Yield function is the first one modeled. Commentary is welcomed. See: http://www.imagineeringresults.com
Drought has Cost California's Agriculture Industry $2.2 Billion In the most comprehensive look yet at the impact of the worst California drought in decades on the state's vital agriculture industry, a new study found that it has cost the state $2.2 billion, primarily in lost farm revenue and wages. See: http://soyatech.com/news_story.php?id=33610 Curiosity: Canada, Wisconsin's #1 export destination ; Mexico, Wisconsin's #2 export destination ; China, Wisconsin's #3 export destination See: http://commerce.wi.gov/newsletter/2007/april/ExportersRecord.html First cucumber cultivation project in Qatar desert See: http://www.hortidaily.com/article/10099/First-cucumber-cultivation-project-in-Qatar-desert Big Ag seeks guaranteed right to farm “Agriculture’s had a lot of folks that’s been trying to come down on our farms and tell us what we can and cannot do,” said Neal Bredehoeft, a corn and soybean farmer in Alma, Missouri. He supports a Missouri measure, going before the voters on Aug. 5, that would declare farming a right at the state level as part of a wider campaign to fortify the agriculture industry nationally. “This gives us a little bit of protection,” Bredehoeft said of the proposal, supported by the Farm Bureau. See: http://www.omaha.com/money/big-ag-seeks-guaranteed-right-to-farm/article_9cc3e2e0-0e92-5d41-9d39-d0464a86efb2.html Europe Seed Treatment Market worth $633.2 Million By 2018: Trends, Forecasts And Technical Insights Up To 2018 See: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/pdfdownload.asp?id=1124 Herbicide-Resistant Weeds Trouble Midwestern Farms - The Kansas City Star - 13-Jul-2014 - By The Associated Press Midwestern farmers are increasingly running into aggressive varieties of weeds that can’t be killed by a popular herbicide that revolutionized modern farming nearly two decades ago. Critics say the emergence of so-called superweeds — ones that have developed a resistance to glyphosate, the generic name for Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup — was inevitable as farmers use the same herbicide year after year. Weed experts say half the nation’s farmland is dealing with some form of herbicide-resistant weeds, including in Missouri and Illinois, where farmers have encountered half a dozen different species immune to glyphosate. The problem grows worse each year, forcing farmers to change how they manage weeds after years of spray-it-and-forget-it simplicity. In many ways, the battle between farmers and resistant weeds sprouted in 1996, when Monsanto introduced its Roundup Ready soybeans — a crop genetically modified to be immune to glyphosate. That was followed by corn, cotton and sugar beets. The combination was revolutionary because it let farmers kill everything in a field except the crop it was designed to protect. It also ended the need for soil-damaging tillage, multiple herbicides and teams of high school students with hoes deployed to clear the fields. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 93 percent of the nation’s corn, soybean and cotton crops were grown last year from genetically modified seeds, most of which were glyphosate-tolerant. Many farmers now rely almost exclusively on the herbicide to keep their fields weed-free. “I hate to use the word ‘lazy,’ but we’ve relaxed a little bit,” said Todd Gibson, a Norborne, Mo., farmer and a director with the Chesterfield-based United Soybean Board. “But it’s more our fault than it is the industry’s.” The agriculture industry is boosting efforts to push farmers away from the over-reliance on glyphosate. Last year, the United Soybean Board launched a program designed to educate growers and encourage them to do more to combat herbicide resistance. University extension experts are spending much of their time working with farmers desperate for solutions. In 2010, Monsanto started its Roundup Ready-Plus program that pays farmers incentives for using competitors’ products at various times during the planting cycle. “There is no silver bullet for managing herbicide resistance,” said Monsanto spokesman John Combest. “It’s an issue that’s bigger than one class of chemistry, one company, one geography or one crop.” Monsanto’s critics, though, blame the company and its peers. The Union of Concerned Scientists says the aggressive marketing of glyphosate as a cure-all is responsible for the rapid spread of resistant weeds. “If it was your intention to create these weeds as quickly as possible, you’d do exactly what we’ve been doing,” said Ricardo Salvador, director of the organization’s food and environment program. See: http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article722484.html Bayer launches its first soybean seed to address resistant weeds New soybean seed brand will bring growers more choices in herbicide-tolerant traits. See: http://farmindustrynews.com/soybean-varieties/bayer-launches-its-first-soybean-seed-address-resistant-weeds Effective development in middle-income countries means closing the inequality gap, says IFAD President visiting Mexico this week IFAD invests in rural people, empowering them to reduce poverty, increase food security, improve nutrition and strengthen resilience. Since 1978, we have provided about US$15.8 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached some 430 million people. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency based in Rome – the UN’s food and agriculture hub. See: http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2014/43.htm Retirement A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy: 'So I hear you're getting married?' 'Yep!' 'Do I know her?' 'Nope!' 'This woman, is she good looking?' 'Not really.' 'Is she a good cook?' 'Naw, she can't cook too well.' 'Does she have lots of money?' 'Nope! Poor as a church mouse...' 'Well, then, is she good in bed?' 'I don't know.' 'Why in the world do you want to marry her then?' 'Because she can still drive!' The distribution of this efita newsletter is sponsored by vitisphere.com Please, contribute to the content of your efita newsletter, and advertise your events, new publications, new products and new project in this newsletter. Without your support, it will not survive! Contact: Guy WAKSMAN E-mail: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To read this newsletter on our web site See: http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_140811_659.htm
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