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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 24 August 2015


EFITA newsletter / 705 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Understanding women (nearly as difficult as understanding ICT for Agriculture)

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This Map Shows China’s Hilarious and Racist Stereotypes of Europe (free subscription for 5 articles per month)
See: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/20/this-map-shows-chinas-hilarious-and-racist-stereotypes-of-europe/


British vs French Policemen by Jacques Tati, one of the greatest French actor (I am not sure that you will have the right to look at this funny video)
See: http://www.topito.com/video/quand-jacques-tati-imite-un-policier-anglais-et-un-policier-francais


Husker Harvest Days
15-17 September - Grand Island, Nebraska
The world's largest totally irrigated working farm show hosts 600+ exhibitors displaying the latest irrigation systems and components; farm equipment; tractors and combines; seed; crop protection products; field demonstrations …
See: http://huskerharvestdays.com/

Next Efita
Congress
2017

Montpellier - France at SupAgro Ag University

See: https://www.supagro.fr/
See: http://www.agrotic.org/blog/


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, Bruno TISSEYRE
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, tisseyre(a)supagro.inra.fr


Add your project or team/ institution in the European map of big data in the agri-food domain

Are you working with Big Data in the agri-food sector? Share the information of your research project & institution and be a part of the European map of big data in agriculture and food.
The agINFRA initiative (http://aginfra.eu), as the community-specific reference point, for research activities in the agri-food sector funded by the Horizon 2020 framework programme, and BigDataEurope Horizon 2020 project (http://www.big-data-europe.eu/), are creating the European map of big data in agriculture and food with all the major research institutions and research projects, in the domain.

In order to identify and record the key players in the agri-food research community, UN FAO and Agro-Know as well as other representatives of the agINFRA initiative (i.e. GODAN partners) have set up a survey identifying the current and future challenges for big data and data management one of the Horizon 2020 societal challenges - the one on Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the Bioeconomy.
Add your project or team/ institution in the European map of big data in agri-food domain simply by visiting: http://www.akstem.com/bde - It will only take you 12 minutes!
Contact: Vassilis PROTONOTARIOS
E-mail: vprot(a)aua.gr


FRACTALS Urban Farming Challenge
The FRACTALS Project is one of the 16 accelerators within the FIWARE community across Europe supporting FIWARE based applications for the Agricultural Sector. FRACTALS now launches the Smart Urban Farming Challenge – a challenge for SMEs, web-entrepreneurs and startups willing to use FIWARE technologies in order to deliver innovative solutions addressing the challenges in urban farming.

In total 49,000 € will be awarded to the winning projects (both as travel reimbursement and money prize) in the scope of the ICT 2015 in Lisbon (20-22 October 2015), the largest ICT event organized by the European Commission. The focus of this challenge lays on smart urban farming solutions in a wider dimension.

The call for ideas closes on 25 September at 17:00 CET. Apply to: urbanfarming@fractals-fp7.com.

Further details on the Call for ideas and Proposal Template: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/fractals-smart-urban-farming-challenge-future-internet-enabled-agricultural-applications.


Calibrate yield monitors more often by David Hest (Crop News Weekly)
A well-calibrated yield monitor can assess yields to within +/- 3%, says Matt Darr, a precision agriculture specialist at Iowa State University. A poorly calibrated monitor can have a margin of error of +/- 10%, particularly in fields where yields...
Voir : http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/corn/calibrate-yield-monitors-more-often


Pinpointing problem spots in-season by Kathy Graul (Crop News Weekly)
FarmLogs launches a new crop health monitoring system that alerts users of exact problem spots in fields using regularly updated satellite imagery.
Voir : http://farmindustrynews.com/crop-protection/pinpointing-problem-spots-season


Crop measurement or modeling: Which is better? By Jodie Wehrspann
A lot has been in the press in the past few years about crop modeling. Using algorithms to define outcomes based on millions of data points from weather, soil, yield history and other factors that play into farming.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/crop-measurement-or-modeling-which-better

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


From the French Forum Phyto

– European Union: Are NGOs really independant?

– Plant protection (a serie of articles by CulturAgriculture)

– A visual guide to food waste and losses (The Guardian)

– “The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture” (Henry I Miller, Forbes)

– NGOs about GMOs : “Unhealthy Fixation” (William Saletan, Slate)

See: http://www.forumphyto.fr/2015/08/19/infoflash-for-english-readers-1505/?lang=en


Golf is a dangerous game: Man killed at the golf course!!!!

A foursome of guys was waiting at the men's tee while a foursome of women was hitting from the ladies' tee.

The ladies were taking their time. When the last lady was ready to hit... her ball, she hacked it 10 feet.

Then she took another swing and whiffed it completely.

Then she hacked it another ten feet and finally hacked it another five feet.

She looked up at the patiently waiting men and said apologetically, "I guess all those fu**ing lessons I took over the winter didn't help."

One of the men immediately responded: "Well, there you have it... You should have taken golf lessons instead!"

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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: mickjharkin(a)gmail.com


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