Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 11 April 2016


EFITA newsletter / 734 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment



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DLG Feldtage (Germany)
14 – 16 June - HASSFURT (Bavaria / Germany),
The DLG Feldtage are the meeting point for crop production experts from all over Germany and neighboring countries. The event, which takes place from 14 to 16 June 2016 at the estate Maria Burghausen in Hassfurt (Bavaria), is organized by the DLG together with the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (Munich); BayWa AG (Munich); and Vereinigte Hagelversicherung – Mutual Agricultural Insurance Association (Giessen). Trade partners include: Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe – Agency for Renewable Resources (Gülzow); Union zur Förderung von Oel- und Proteinpflanzen – the Union for Promoting Oil and Protein Plants (Berlin); and Südzucker AG (Mannheim).

To date, more than 270 exhibitors have already registered to take part in the 2016 DLG Feldtage DLG, meanwhile, is expecting about 25,000 visitors at attend the exhibition..
See: http://www.dlg-feldtage.de/

See: http://www.dlg-feldtage.de/en/news/news/?detail/feldtage2016/16/2/8331

>>> A farm field day with a German flair
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/farm-equipment/farm-field-day-german-flair


The use of drones to support research programs (the Phenome project) - ARVALIS-infos.fr
Voir : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gM1JKu6M0


Claas Apps (iPhone / iPad)
Claas Telematics / Claas Trends / Agrocom Net / Agrocom Lu / Supersau / Agrocom Rind…
See : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/developer/claas-kg-auf-aktien-mbh/id597848984


Calculating the payback of telematics by Jodie Wehrspann
John Deere has developed a calculator that lets you determine that payback. The new JDLink ROI estimator is designed to quantify the value of keeping machines connected using JDLink. However, the same concepts could be applied to any system.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/electronics/calculating-payback-telematics
See: https://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/
ag_management_solutions/information_management/jdlink/jdlink.page


Must-have planter add-on?
Is a data logger the new tool everyone must use when they hit the field?
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/must-have-planter-add

7 tech trends we gleaned from the National Farm Machinery Show
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/farm-equipment/7-tech-trends-we-gleaned-national-farm-machinery-show


Rem Korteweg: TTIP could make Europe more anti-American, anti-free trade
See: http://www.euractiv.com/
section/trade-society/video/rem-korteweg-ttip-could-make-europe-more-anti-american-anti-free-trade/


The case for free trade is overwhelming. But the losers need more help
See: http://www.economist.com/
news/leaders/21695879-case-free-trade-overwhelming-losers-need-more-help-open-argument


So british
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/upEBdKFGlPg?rel=0
Contact: JP BASSINO
E-mail: jean-pierre.bassino(a)orange.fr


Brexit (?)
Dear Guy,

Whilst agreeing with the comment by Professor Schueller about the value of the EFITA Newsletter and, although I did not see the views to which he refers regarding opposition to Brexit, I must say that I strongly object to his remarks concerning the “stupid politics” regarding “the weakening of the EU”. Professor Schueller concedes that he is an outsider which may excuse his outrageous comment that these proposals are “as bad as our current USA presidential campaign”?

What was set up as a Free Trade Area (Common Market), has become a political union, with control of member states increasingly taken over by the European Parliament, often against the will of the national population – I too am old enough to remember pre-EU. To many across Europe the EU is a failing project, already in decline; we have only to look at the disarray surrounding the current migration crisis to realise that this is the case. This brief response to the EFITA newsletter is not the place to set out even a small part of the arguments for a UK exit from the EU, but the fact that Professor Schueller compares these arguments with the stupidity of the USA presidential campaign, suggest that he is rather ignorant of the issues and should keep his ill-informed comments to himself.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Ken SMITH
(retired Soil Scientist – these views are my own, not those of my former employer, ADAS UK)
E-Mail: Ken.Smith(a)adas.co.uk


My short answer (GW): Thank you for your kind message. You will for sure vote as you wish but please note that, respecting your choice, my personal feeling is that the Brexit means a kind of rejection of all that we have built together for decades and even centuries, i.e. the European civilization and spirit. Compared with nearly all regions of the world I had the chance to visit, we benefit here from incredible opportunities and advantages.
Be sure that we remember that we owe to UK our liberty (and in my case, as Jewish the survival of my parents… and my birth), that we are many in Europe who will deeply miss the participation of UK in the EU institutions and above all the participation of British people with your sense of humour, your sensibility to individual rights, your traditions and openness to new trends, your creativity.

Bad neighborhood (Old American joke)

I love my mother, man, 'cause she wanted to keep me and my brothers off the streets.

We grew up in a drug-infested neighborhood -- the United States.

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
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