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Workshop / EFITA Conference: Semantics for Precision Livestock Farming - Towards Dairy Farming Ontology (DFO) 30 June - POZNAN - Dmart Dairy Farming: experiences with data collection and analysis in dairy farming in The Netherlands (Jack Verhoosel, TNO, The Netherlands) - DFO Initiative @ KTBL (Daniel Martin, KTBL, Germany) - DFO Initiative @ TSSG (Sinead Quealy, TSSG, Ireland) - DFO in agriOpenLink (Dana Tomic, FTW, Austria) - Discussion See: http://www.efita2015.org
ISAF Conference 2015 14 - 16 September 2015 - DRESDEN 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Agriculture and Forestry (ISAF 2015) together with the Open Data Hackathon for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, Tourism and Rural development and the Club of Ossiach Networking Event >>> Call for papers / Conference topics: - Open Data for Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development - Future Internet and Agriculture - Precision farming and precision forestry issues - ICT in Agriculture and Rural Development Research - Sensor technologies - ICT for Agriculture Sustainability - Land use, Land cover and Rural Planning - Farming on Cloud - Space technologies for Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development - Environmental risk management - Innovation and transfer of technologies - International cooperation See: http://sdi4apps.eu/2015/06/isaf-conference-2015-call-for-papers/ 7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming 15 – 18 September 2015 - MILAN, Italy See: http://users.unimi.it/ecplf2015/ Contact Daniel BERCKMANS E-mail: daniel.berckmans(a)biw.kuleuven.be
Gallery: 7 weather tools for farming by Willie Vogt (Farming Industry News) There are a number of tools for tracking the weather, and developers continue enhancing their approaches. Check out these 7 tools that will help you track the weather this growing season See: http://farmindustrynews.com/electronics/7-weather-tools-farming Climate Pro: Field-level insights powered by data science Combine your experience with insights from Climate Pro™, a powerful decision support tool that helps you make more informed decisions. Climate Pro helps you stop problems before they impact yield and improve efficiency with smart, field-level information – all captured in one place so it’s easy to share with your trusted advisor. Insights from Climate Pro build on the field intelligence provided by Climate Basic™ for a feature-rich, decision support tool. See: http://www.climate.com/products/climate-pro/ Growing Degree Days The Growing Degree Days application measures the maturity of your crop by viewing current and past growing degree days data for your farm’s location. Growing degree days (GDD) are a measure of heat accumulation used in agriculture to predict the date that crops will reach maturity. Touch the map pin to display growing degree days for your current location. Move the map pin to see growing degree days for a different location. Growing degree days are listed by month and summarized for the year. The current year’s growing degree days are compared to the previous year’s growing degree days. See: http://farmprogress.com/mobileApps.aspx?fpan=growing-degree-days Agriplace.com (NL) Our mission is to make AgriPlace a global information platform helping growers share their data with buyers and other stakeholders. See: https://www.agriplace.com/en/about/ New book on Precision Livestock Farming now available! Following the success of the EU-PLF/EAAP Joint Session during the 2014 EAAP Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, the EU-PLF project is pleased to announce the publication of the scientific book "Precision Livestock Farming Applications". The book is the result of the Joint Session and consists of full-length peer-reviewed papers combined with ‘questions and answers’ sections. It brings together current researches that focus on the development of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies through the interaction of scientists, industries and farmers in the fields of animal genetics, nutrition, health and welfare. The core theme of the book is that PLF is a management tool that allows farmers to make decisions based on data and information obtained from the continuous observation of the animals and automated analysis of their behaviour. See: http://www.eu-plf.eu/index.php/press-release/new-book-on-plf/ GEOSYS continues its growth and implements GEOSYS Europe in Switzerland, headquarters of its European Operations GEOSYS the world leader in remote sensing decision support tools for agriculture, formalizes the creation of its new subsidiary in Switzerland, GEOSYS Europe, to better support its clients based in the Europe area and ensure proximity to major international decision-making centers of the agricultural industry. “Our European Sales Team has now its own legal entity which completes our geographical sales organization to cover large agricultural production areas. GEOSYS Europe will allow us to better support our customers in a context where Digital Agriculture knows a fast development phase.” Damien Lepoutre, GEOSYS President and Land O’Lakes VP, said. > Pierre ROLLAND, appointed Director of GEOSYS Europe The new entity will be headed by Pierre Rolland, Director EMEA Operations. Pierre Rolland joined GEOSYS in 2005 as Sales Director and significantly contributed to the growth and sales organization in Europe. “The Swiss subsidiary is a platform close to our markets. I welcome this strategic step for the GEOSYS Group. Our double local and international dimension can thus be better valued for our major international clients.” Pierre Rolland said. > A strategic location Based in Morges, near Lausanne, GEOSYS Europe benefits from a central geographical location, and offers a great technical support with a multicultural team and a strong presence in France (Paris and Toulouse) and Russia (Krasnodar - 3 resources). GEOSYS Europe becomes the fifth subsidiary of GEOSYS Group. > About GEOSYS GEOSYS combines the most advanced agronomic research with information technologies like GIS and remote sensing to provide the most complete picture for crop production. With more than 25 years in business and projects in more than 50 countries, GEOSYS is the world leader for agricultural information and decision support tools based on remote sensing. GEOSYS has offices in Europe (Toulouse, France & Morges, Switzerland), North America (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA), Australia (Sydney), and in South America (Campinas, SP, Brazil). > About Land O’Lakes Land O'Lakes, Inc., one of America’s premier agribusiness and food companies, is a member-owned cooperative with industry-leading operations that span the spectrum from farm production to consumer foods. With 2014 annual sales of more than $15 billion, Land O'Lakes is one of the nation’s largest cooperatives, ranking 194 on the Fortune 500. Building on a legacy of more than 92 years of operation, Land O'Lakes today operates some of the most respected brands in agribusiness and food production including LAND O LAKES® Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition and WinField. The company does business in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. Land O'Lakes International Development is a division of the company helping to transform lives through agriculture and enterprise partnerships that are enhancing profitability and food security in developing countries around the world. Since 1981, this division has helped generate economic growth and improve the quality of life for millions of people through more than 275 projects in 76 developing nations. Land O'Lakes, Inc. corporate headquarters are located in Arden Hills, MN. See: http://www.geosys.com Contact: Céline TAZKY E-mail: celine.tazky(a)geosys.com
Like Riding a Bike...But Bet you Can't Ride This Bike! Too interesting to pass up! This video is funny, informative and interesting. Our mental pathways are accustomed to the world around us. But when you change the physical world a little, people have trouble adjusting. The older you are, the harder it is to deal with the kind of change portrayed in the video. Ever hear that phrase "It's just like riding a bike?" It turns out riding a bike isn't actually all that easy. Take this bike, for example. It looks like an ordinary bicycle but with one big difference. You may think you can ride it, but the narrator guarantees you're wrong. This is fantastic and tells us so much about how our brains function. Watch it to the end and ENJOY! See: http://viewpure.com/MFzDaBzBlL0?ref=bkmk Oldies about Oldies MONDAY The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex... Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very wilful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter to be put on birth control and until then, talk to her and give her a box of condoms. Later that evening, as her daughter was preparing for a date, the mother told her about the situation and handed her a box of condoms. The girl burst out laughing and reached over to hug her mother, saying: 'Oh Mom! You don't have to worry about that! I'm dating Susan!' TUESDAY A man went to church one day and afterward he stopped to shake the preacher's hand. He said, 'Preacher, I’ll tell you, that was a damned fine sermon. Damned good!' The preacher said, 'Thank you sir, but I'd rather you didn't use profanity.' The man said, 'I was so damned impressed with that sermon I put five thousand dollars in the offering plate!' The preacher said, 'No shit?' WEDNESDAY Brenda and Steve took their six-year-old son to the doctor. With some hesitation, they explained that although their little angel appeared to be in good health, they were concerned about his rather small penis. After examining the child, the doctor confidently declared, 'Just feed him pancakes. That should solve the problem.' The next morning when the boy arrived at breakfast, there was a large stack of warm pancakes in the middle of the table. 'Gee, Mom,' he exclaimed, 'for me?' 'Just take two,' Brenda replied. 'The rest are for your father.' THURSDAY One night, an 87-year-old woman came home from Bingo to find her 92-year-old husband in bed with another woman. She became violent and ended up pushing him off the balcony of their 20th floor apartment, killing him instantly. Brought before the court on the charge of murder, she was asked if she had anything to say in her own defense. ‘Your Honor,' she began coolly, 'I figured that at 92, if he could screw, he could fly.' FRIDAY A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa. 'The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water. However, there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have eaten, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?' After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the front row raised his hand, and softly said, ‘Wedding Cake.' SATURDAY Bob, a 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a breathtakingly beautiful and very sexy 25-year-old blonde-haired woman who knocks everyone's socks off with her youthful sex appeal and charm and who hangs over Bob’s arm and listens intently to his every word. His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, 'Bob, how’d you get the trophy girlfriend?' Bob replies, ‘Girlfriend? She's my wife!' They are knocked over, but continue to ask. 'So, how'd you persuade her to marry you?' 'I lied about my age,' Bob replies. 'What, did you tell her you were only 50?' Bob smiles and says, 'No, I told her I was 90.' SUNDAY Groups of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Switzerland. As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goat's milk was used. She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were grazing. 'These,' she explained, 'are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce.' She then asked, 'What do you do in America with your old goats?' A spry old gentleman answered, 'They send us on bus tours!' 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_150608_697.htm
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