Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 14 March 2016


EFITA newsletter / 730 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment



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What is an API?
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7wmiS2mSXY


API - AGRO: An Open Data and Open API platform to promote interoperability standards for Farm Services and Ag Web Applications
See: http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/209
Contact: Mehdi SINÉ


Welcome to the Ag Data Transparency Evaluator
This website was created by a non-profit corporation backed by a consortium of farm industry groups, commodity organizations and ag technology providers in order to bring transparency, simplicity, and trustinto the contracts that govern precision agricultural technologies. Based upon the foundation laid by the Privacy and Security Principles for Farm Data (the Data Principles), the Ag Data Transparency Evaluator is a process by which ag technology providers voluntarily submit their ag data contracts to a simple, ten question evaluation. Answers are reviewed by an independent third party administrator, and the results are posted on this website for farmers and other ag professionals to consult and review. Only companies receiving approval are allowed to use the “Ag Data Transparent” seal.

Note: The American Farm Bureau Federation’s (“AFBF”) Legal Advocacy Program represents the interests of farmers and ranchers in the courts by opposing unnecessary or excessive restrictions on agricultural practices and private property rights. Our litigation efforts strive to maintain a lawful and rational U.S. regulatory climate that allows farmers and ranchers to be productive stewards of our natural resources.

Comment by John K. SCHUELLER: Given the large farmer organizations and companies involved in Ag Data Transparency Evaluator, it has the potential of being significant.
See: http://www.fb.org/agdatatransparent/

See too: http://agdatacoalition.org/ and http://agdatacoalition.org/about-adc
The ADC’s mission is to help farmers' better control and manage their electronic data and promote innovation and progress in the agricultural marketplace. The goal of Agricultural Data Coalition is a create a neutral, independent, farmer-centric data repository where farmers can securely store and control the information collected every day in the fields by their tractors, harvesters, aerial imaging and other devices. Over time, that data can then be scrubbed, synced and transmitted in an efficient and uniform way to third parties — whether they be researchers, crop insurance agents, government officials, farm managers, input providers or anyone else the farmer chooses. The agricultural data coalition will provide a privacy-ensured way for farmers to access markets; increase yields and profitability; and ensure unrestricted access to their data, services and products. Farm data. Farmer controlled.

Some of the same major players are involved in both, although the two lists are different.

Information provided by John K. SCHUELLER, Professor, University of Florida
E-mail: schuejk(a)ufl.edu


New Climate FieldView Drive and Script Creator
Two new Climate FieldView offerings let you log data and write seeding prescriptions from your iPad. Doug Sauder, Climate Corporation, shares a look at the benefits of the new systems.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/video-demo-new-climate-fieldview-drive-and-script-creator


Making sense of data - while not easy there will be a payback
Farmers collecting data from their farms wonder if it's worth the trouble. Here are 3 questions to ask ahead of connecting with a new data-system provider.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/making-sense-data-while-not-easy-there-will-be-payback


Video Demo: The new Agco Vision cab
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/combines/video-demo-new-agco-vision-cab

A day for logistics in the fruit and vegetable sector, with the main players in the market
5 May - VERONA (IT)
The Euro-Mediterranean scenario that links the issue of maritime logistics to the trade service; air transport and the increasing opportunities for the export of perishable goods, a real competitive challenge for Italy; new technologies for the proper management of the cold chain to improve added value; and finally, the issue of simplifying the law and customs controls with the aim of creating fast channels for goods and documents.

These are the four main points that the first Logistics Day will tackle. Logistics Day will be held during Fruit&Veg System, the innovative B2B event organised by VeronaFiere in collaboration with Agrifood Consulting, to take place from 4th - 6th May 2016.

The conference - on May 5th from 10am to 6pm - will be co-ordinated by Luca Lanini, Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Catholic University of Piacenza and Cremona, and will be attended by the operators and players of the sector. Mr Lanini explains, "The central focus of this matter is inevitable, since added value and competitive advantage is created only through proper logistics management - even more so in international markets. In this context, we are preparing the port and airport areas to be able to strengthen the deals, the needs and perspectives that must now guarantee the sea and air transport system, the technologies applied to reefer containers, and intermodal systems as well as regulatory developments related to customs, for example."

The four points of the conference represent the focal points of the many tables of discussion that have taken place to develop content to be presented to the operators at Logistics Day.
Also, Logistics Day is the main event of Fruit & Veg System due to the nature of the role of logistics in the scope of the commercialization process of fresh produce, especially during long journeys and taking the new export routes into account.

It could not be any other way, since logistics is one of the platforms of Veronese excellence around which the VeronaFiere event revolves. Among other things, it has enabled the great success of Vinitaly - its fiftieth anniversary can rightly boast to be not only the most important event in the world in the global wine trade sector, but also the international showcase that allowed Italian product to be known worldwide.

Verona is at the very heart of the logistics model proposed by Fruit & Veg System due to its key role in the north-south axis of Italy because of the geographical proximity to the fruit and vegetable production areas as well as the main logistic platforms of the big retail chains. In this sense, we are able to capitalise on the excellent experience gained from the Veronamercato platform (a fundamental strategic logistics hub to foreign markets), the intermodal hub of Quadrant Europe (the first European logistics centre) and the Verona Villafranca-Montichiari airport complex and its dedication to perishable cargo.
That is why the topics covered at Logistics Day are real operational tools for the internationalisation of Italian fruit and vegetable companies of excellence.
See: http://www.fruitandvegsystem.com
See: http://agiellenews.it/fruitvegsystem-a-verona-il-primo-logistic-day/102004


Thermal weed control not completely safe!

Umstrittene Glyphosat-Studie: Brauer bezeichnen Pestizid-Vorwürfe als "absurd"
Sehen : http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/glyphosat-in-bier-brauer-bezeichnen-pestizid-vorwuerfe-als-absurd-a-1079283.html


Komplettierte Nachrichten: Wie STERN und Süddeutsche ein leidendes Kind missbrauchen
Dies ist mein schwerer Vorwurf: Beide Redaktionen wissen genau, was sie tun. Sowohl „Stern“ als auch „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ haben das Leiden dieses Mädchens zum Zweck der Desinformation missbraucht. Was haben Aixas Nävi mit Gentechnik und dem Versprühen von Chemikalien zu tun? Aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht nichts, aber auch gar nichts. Als Dermatologen sollten wir gegen diese Form des Journalismus protestieren. Denn schweigen wir, wer soll dann sprechen?
Sehen : http://www.achgut.com/artikel/komplettierte_nachrichten_wie_stern_und_sueddeutsche_ein_leidendes_kind_mis

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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
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