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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 6 July 2015


EFITA newsletter / 701 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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In this issue, a few links related to papers presented at EFITA 2015 (Poznan, 29 June - 2 July 2015)
> Please note that the EFITA 2017 congress will be held in Montpellier, end of June, beginning of July.
Chairmen : Jean-Pierre CHANET and Bruno TISSEYRE
E-mail: jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, tisseyre(a)supagro.inra.fr

> The new President of Efita is Remigio BERRUTO
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10 th European Conference on Precision Agriculture
12 – 16 July – Volcani Center (Israel)
See: http://www.ecpa2015.com/


7 th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming
15 – 18 September 2015 - MILANO
The European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming takes place every two years, and during the last edition was confirmed that PLF can support and improve techniques to make smart farming a reality, creating added value for many stakeholders: animals, farmers, veterinarians, feed and product suppliers, health services, policy makers and of course the consumer.
See: http://users.unimi.it/ecplf2015/


Research Data Sharing Without Barriers
24 September 2015 - PARIS
The theme of the Meeting will be Enterprise Engagement with a focus on Research Data for Climate Change. As a part of this focus Cap Digital & RDA have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related Data Sets with startups, SMEs and larger organizations with practical application for these data.
See: https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html

Séminaires

Modelia / Afia

>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture (19 juin 2015)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/base-documentaire/afia-colloque/2015_-_reseaux-sociaux/#wpfb-cat-87

>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 2ème partie (7 janvier 2015)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> Les nouveaux capteurs en Agriculture (19 avril 2014)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/colloques-afia/afia-colloque/2014_-_capteurs/#wpfb-cat-5



>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 1ère partie : état des lieux et perspectives (12 novembre 2013)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> La modélisation entre recherche et développement agricole, allers et retours... Des modèles scientifiques aux outils logiciels : ambitions, expériences, réflexions, propriété intellectuelle (29 mars 2013)

Voir :
http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=35


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, François BRUN
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, francois.brun(a)acta.asso.fr


EPCIS: tracing and tracking…
EPCIS is a GS1 standard that enables trading partners to share information about the physical movement and status of products as they travel throughout the supply chain – from business to business and ultimately to consumers. It helps answer the “what, where, when and why” questions to meet consumer and regulatory demands for accurate and detailed product information.
See: http://www.gs1.org/epcis


Pantheon FarmingGlass
Presenting data where and when needed in agriculture is hard. Computers are cumbersome, tablets fragile and smartphones stashed in pockets. Data entry is difficult as hands are dirty or busy. PANTHEON FarmingGlass approaches these problems through augmented reality – projecting data on animals, fields, equipment, messages or advice directly into your field of view. A streamlined and context dependent user interface gives you just the information you need. Coupled with voice-based input, RFID, NFC and GPS, its usability is high and the need to use hands minimized. The embedded camera is used for the consultant’s telepresence, opening up new cooperation possibilities.
See: http://www.datalab.eu/fa/glass/


Pantheon Farming, a complete Farm Management Information System
40000 users mainly Switzerland, in Eastern and South-eastern Europe
See: http://www.datalab.eu/fa/


AgroIT Advanced Farm Management
See: https://www.agroit.eu/SitePages/About.aspx


Farm Oriented Open Data in Europe
See: http://www.foodie-project.eu/


Circular economy
See: http://www.biowert.de


Maps Dev Center (ortho images used by Progis)
The Maps Dev Center provides the tools and resources you need to develop with Bing Maps. Sign in to create Bing Maps keys to use with the Bing Maps APIs. You can store, access, and keep track of your store locations or other spatial data through our online data source management system. You will also receive important announcements around your Bing Maps account.
See: https://www.bingmapsportal.com/


GitHub: Build software better, together.
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
Online project hosting using Git. Includes source-code browser, in-line editing, wikis, and ticketing. Free for public open-source code. Commercial closed source…
See: https://github.com/


TSSG PRECISION DAIRY project
The primary focus of the PRECISION DAIRY project is to link ICT based disciplines with dairy systems research in order to develop real-time decision support systems for dairy farmers. Autonomous, battery operated sensors will be scattered throughout the farms to sense real-time data in relation to animal and grassland production in order to improve productivity, disease management, animal mobility tracking and event forecasting. Information obtained from these precision dairy farming applications, however, is only useful if interpreted and utilized efficiently in decision making. Therefore, a prototype platform to communicate the real-time data to a central server and interpret the data collected from diverse sensor infrastructures will be developed. Thereafter, a number of mediums to provide feedback to the farmer will be designed and tested with the focus placed on providing real-time information for creating reports to identify deviations, to facilitate timely informed decisions.
See: https://www.tssg.org/projects/precision-dairy-2/


AQUASMART- Aquaculture Smart and Open Data Analytics as a Service
See: https://www.tssg.org/projects/aquasmart/


AgGateway
AgGateway is a non-profit consortium of businesses serving the agriculture industry, with the mission to promote, enable and expand eBusiness in agriculture.
Our long-term vision is to become the recognized international source for enabling the use of information and communication technologies for agriculture.
AgGateway currently has more than 230 member companies working on projects within seven major industry segments:
- Ag Retail
- Allied Providers (systems & software developers and service providers)
- Crop Nutrition
- Crop Protection
- Grain & Feed
- Precision Agriculture
- Seed
Each segment forms a council that operates autonomously within the overall guidelines of AgGateway. The structure allows the councils to determine their own eBusiness priorities and projects. They are responsible for funding their own projects, and each council elects its own leaders that represent it on the AgGateway Board of Directors.
See: http://www.aggateway.org/


Precision Agriculture by TSSG
See: http://www.tssg.org/precision-agriculture-research-unit/


Adaptive Agricultural Processes via Open Interfaces and Linked Services
Robots and machines integrated within farming processes host numerous specialized sensors and measurement devices and generate large amounts of data that combined with data, coming from external sources, could provide a basis for better process understanding and process optimization. One serious roadblock to this vision is that the equipment of different vendors is often not interoperable and cannot exchange data. Another pitfall of current solutions is that the process knowledge is not modelled in a standardized machine readable form. On the other hand, such process model can be flexibly used to support process-specific integration of machines, and could also enable context-sensitive automatic process optimization.

The project agriOpenLink (Adaptive Agricultural Processes via Open Interfaces and Linked Services) will provide an extendible interface model for agricultural machines via an open-source library and a design methodology for adaptive process control based on linked semantic services and data, and will verify and popularize these results in a user study targeting developers of ICT applications for smart farming.
See: http://agriopenlink.com/


Smart Dairy Farming (in Dutch)
Developments based on modern modelling techniques to manage link d           ata; Ontology modeling and mapping and Big Data
See: http://www.smartdairyfarming.nl/nl/resultaten/


Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software
See: http://golang.org/


API-AGRO: An Open Data and Open API platform
See: https://www.opendatasoft.com/2015/06/09/api-agro-chooses-opendatasoft-to-manage-and-monetize-its-apis/


CACAO-SOFT: Cocoa Enterprise Lifecycle Management Software
See:
http://www.informatixinc.com/
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119&Itemid=389



Integrated robotic and software platform as a support system for farm level business decisions (ROBOFARM)
See: http://robofarm.unibo.it/


High-Throughput 3-D Monitoring of Agricultural-Tree Plantations with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technology
The geometric features of agricultural trees such as canopy area, tree height and crown volume provide useful information about plantation status and crop production. However, these variables are mostly estimated after a time-consuming and hard field work and applying equations that treat the trees as geometric solids, which produce inconsistent results. As an alternative, this work presents an innovative procedure for computing the 3-dimensional geometric features of individual trees and tree-rows by applying two consecutive phases: 1) generation of Digital Surface Models with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology and 2) use of object-based image analysis techniques. Our UAV-based procedure produced successful results both in single-tree and in tree-row plantations, reporting up to 97% accuracy on area quantification and minimal deviations compared to in-field estimations of tree heights and crown volumes. The maps generated could be used to understand the linkages between tree grown and field-related factors or to optimize crop management operations in the context of precision agriculture with relevant agro-environmental implications.
See: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130479
Contact: Jose M PEÑA
E-mail: jmpena(a)ias.csic.es


Drones Help Farmers Minimize Water Use
“Precision agriculture is the right input at the right time at the right place. You want to maximize the usage of that product and minimize the run off at the same time,” Hartman said. “You’re maximizing economics for the farmer by not wasting product, you’re minimizing environmental impact.”
Interest in high-tech farming is growing as well. Maryland Public Television plans to showcase Hartman’s work on their show Maryland Farm & Harvest, because of the interest generated by drones and because of its potential to help feed a growing population.
See: https://water.tallyfox.com/mosaic/text/drones-help-farmers-minimize-water-use


WeBee
See: http://webeelife.com/en/how-does-it-work


How wearable technology is helping UK farmers get more milk from their cows
See: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/
how-wearable-technology-is-helping-uk-farmers-get-more-milk-from-their-cows-9212281.html



Lely will demonstrate the dairy farm management of the future at Eurotier
See: http://www.lely.com/en/home/media-centre/news-en-events/news/
lely-will-demonstrate-the-dairy-farm-management-of-the-future-at-eurot



About SIGFOX
SIGFOX is the first and only company providing global cellular connectivity for the Internet of Things, fully dedicated to low-throughput communications. SIGFOX is re-inventing connectivity by radically lowering prices and energy consumption for connected devices.
See: http://www.sigfox.com/en/#!/about


Our FInish is your start. An opportunity for developing new business applications for agri-food, logistics, transport and manufacturing (FI)
FInish is an accelerator, marking the last phase of the Future Internet Programme which provides opportunity to receive funding to use developed technologies, creating new solutions and/or businesses. In other words, FInish will provide grants to enable the realization of intelligent systems – especially software applications – for supply chains of perishable food and flowers. These proposed solutions shall represent new ways of facilitating seamless business-to-business collaboration in complex supply chains and networks. This will initiate benefits for both actors and consumers.
See: http://www.finish-project.eu/more-about-finish/


FRACTALS
FRACTALS aims to support the community of innovative ICT SMEs and web-entrepreneurs to develop FIWARE based applications with high market potential, addressing the needs of the agricultural sector. FRACTALS Call will be open to all European SMEs and web-entrepreneurs but will additionally focus on areas which are considered as "white spots" (Balkans, South East Europe).
See: http://fractals-fp7.com/


iHub.eu: We are able to deal with any electronic device… (EU R&D project)
See: http://ihub.eu/


Poznan (PL) Internet Innovation Hub
See: http://www.man.poznan.pl/online/pl/projekty/164/Poznan_Internet_Innovation_Hub_PIIH.html


SmartAgriFood (Future Internet) accelarator for Agriculture (there are 4 accelerators in Agriculture)
See: http://smartagrifood.com/


Fi-Ware platform
FIWARE Ops is a collection of tools that eases the deployment, setup and operation of FIWARE instances by Platform Providers. It is designed to help expanding the infrastructure associated to a given FIWARE instance by means of federating additional nodes (datacenters) over time and allowing cooperation of multiple Platform Providers. FIWARE Ops is the tool used to build, operate and expand FIWARE Lab.
See; https://www.fiware.org/
See: https://www.fiware.org/fiware-operations/


SmartHoney
See: http://ict-agri.eu/sites/ict-agri.eu/files/pdf/13796/16523_Full_proposal.pdf
Contact : Kaspars SKALBERGS
E-mail: skalbergs(a)bosc.li


ICT-AGRI, ICT and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture
See: http://db-ictagri.eu/ict-agri/content/home.php


ICT-AGRI Meta Knowledge Base
Se: http://ict-agri.eu/frontpage?destination=frontpage


Agriculture app store
Farming with apps gives you all the information you need to use a smart phone or tablet on farm.
See: http://www.farmingwithapps.com/


EIP-AGRI: the one-stop-shop for agricultural innovation
The agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) works to foster competitive and sustainable farming and forestry that 'achieves more and better from less'. It contributes to ensuring a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials, developing its work in harmony with the essential natural resources on which farming depends.
See: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/EIPAGRIabout


EIP newletters
See: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/node/42


IT company in Poland interested in Agriculture and Food industries, present at Efita 2015
See: http://www.alm.biz.pl


European Satellite Navigation Competition 2015
See: http://esnc.eu


Growing season apps
See: http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/corn/growing-season-apps


Total Trace bu TÜV Rheinland
See: https://www.tuv.com/media/corporate/aboutus_5/pdf_1/Tuev_Rheinland_business_streams.pdf


Farm365net ( in German)
Sehen: https://www.365farmnet.com/


How to organise the data capture and processing to mainstream the application of precision farming for an optimisation of inputs and yield?
See: https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/mainstreaming-precision-farming


John Deere farm management software
See: https://www.deere.com/en_US/
products/equipment/ag_management_solutions/information_management/apex/apex.page



Study: Crop Rotation Has Positive Impact On Soil Microbial Communities
See: http://www.croplife.com/crop-inputs/study-crop-rotation-has-positive-impact-on-soil-microbial-communities/


Biopharmaceuticals booming in Germany despite GMO controversy
Modern pharmaceuticals are no longer exclusively produced in a chemicals laboratory, but are often developed using live cells. In Germany, such biopharmaceuticals are being sold and prescribed at an ever increasing rate – despite widespread scepticism over GMOs in Germany.
See: http://www.euractiv.com/sections/innovation-industry/
biopharmaceuticals-booming-germany-despite-gmo-controversy-315770



Missing the Point and Wasting Resources
I sometimes think of scientific skepticism as a method of waste reduction and improved efficiency. As an individual, a family, a society, a government, and indeed a civilization, we are best served if our time and energy were spent in an efficient manner pursuing appropriate goals. It pains me, for example, to think of researchers who spend an entire career pursuing a fiction. When you think about how much time and money is wasted because of ideology, stubbornness, or simple ignorance it can be depressing.

Part of the problem is that the choices we face are increasingly complex, and we really don’t have the infrastructure necessary to collectively make good decisions. Politics is overwhelmed with ideology and perverse incentives, people are overwhelmed with misinformation and advertising, the public is largely scientifically illiterate, the media generally does not do a good job of informing the public, and the default mode is to make decisions for emotional and ideological rather than rational reasons.
(…)
Opposition to GMO is an excellent example of massive inefficiency caused by scientific illiteracy and misinformation. Well-meaning people who care about the environment, as I do, and are concerned about sustainability, as I am, are now expending their energy in the precisely wrong direction. If they achieve their goal of banning GMOs they will have actually hurt their own cause. They will deprive us of a powerful and important tool that has the potential to improve the efficiency of farming, resulting in a smaller environmental footprint.

Those concerned about patents and corporate power are also tilting at the wrong windmill. If they succeed in opposing GMOs (through banning or forced labeling) they will have accomplished nothing but supporting one set of corporate interests over another. They are unwitting shills in a corporate battle, all the while decrying corporate shills and corporate power. Monsanto and Syngenta will continue to sell patented hybrid seeds, or perhaps expand mutation farming to replace a superior technology.

If you want more healthful food, then opposing GMOs will accomplish literally nothing. Worse, it will hurt nutrition globally by depriving those who need it most of one entire category of potential solutions. Golden rice, for example, could be providing vitamin A to deficient children, except for mindless opposition to GMOs. There are GMO potatoes that produce less acrylamide when fried, a potentially carcinogenic compound. The GMO potato is literally more healthful then the non-GMO varieties.

Those who oppose GMO as a technology, to whatever extent they succeed in their opposition, will achieve the exact opposite of their true goals.
See: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/missing-the-point-and-wasting-resources/


The General Biosecurity Obligation (Queensland Australia)
Information about The General Biosecurity Obligation and what it means for you.
See: https://publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/biosecurity-act/resource/59e0bde8-1c77-4c0f-8f6d-6594c042382c


Buzzworthy Trend: Florida’s Bee Colonies Building
See: http://www.growingproduce.com/vegetables/buzzworthy-trend-floridas-bee-colonies-building/



Oley and Lena are remembering
Oley: Remember when we met, we were 22. It was like a steel rod- I couldn't bend it.

Lena: Yes, that was great s_x

Oley: And remember when our son went to kindergarten, we celebrated. I remember I could bend it, but only a bit.

Lena::Yes, we made love and it was great.

Oley: Last month, our son graduated from college. I could bend it easily. What's that all about?

Lena, leaning across, smiling, gently touching a hand on his shoulder: "I think you've gotten stronger."


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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: harkin(a)iol.ie


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