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Châtenay-Malabry (FR
- 92290), 25 April 2016
EFITA newsletter / 735 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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See: http://www.agrotic.org/blog/
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Thought for today by the President of the USA
Just about every nation in the world, to some extent, admits immigrants.
But there’s something unique about America. We don’t simply welcome
new immigrants, we don’t simply welcome new arrivals -- we are born
of immigrants. That is who we are. Immigration is our origin story.
And for more than two centuries, it’s remained at the core of our national
character; it’s our oldest tradition. It’s who we are. It’s part of
what makes us exceptional. After all, unless your family is Native American,
one of the first Americans, our families -- all of our families -- come
from someplace else.
See: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/12/16/president-obama-welcomes-new-americans
Nomination
As former president of Efita (and editor of this newsletter), the
French Minister of Agriculture nominated me as "Officier du Mérite
Agricole" (January 31, 2016). This nomination is a great honor
for me.
To a group of ex-colleagues of ACTA, I told my thankful thinkings for
all the years I spent with them where I enjoyed a nice and interesting
career.
And within a small group of friends of the "Académie d'Agriculture
de France", I thanked especially a few of these friends, and above
all this marvellous country that France is, country where my grand-parents
and parents arrived as refugees at the eve of the WW2.
I signalled that my regretted brother Gilles (1952-2007) was professor
of Universities in biochemistry and excellent searcher, and that my
second brother is Head of the Institute of Structural and Molecular
Biology at UCL/Birkbeck (London) and a fellow of the Royal Society.
Gabriel: http://www.ismb.lon.ac.uk/gabriel-waksman/homepage.htm
Gilles: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2133.2000.03292.x/abstract
Gilles: http://www.worldcat.org/identities/viaf-7479058/
Eventually I wanted to celebrate our Europe as one of the best place
to work and live in this world.
AgriFuture Days:
Smart rural area for smart cities
22-24 June - VILLACH, Austria
In the light of rapid growth of urbanisation world-wide, the development
of the rural area lacks behind the development of smart cities. The conference
will discuss how ICT can contribute to the future of agriculture for large
farms as well as for smallholder farmers. Furthermore it will also look
at the framework which is necessary to integrate all chain partners from
production to marketability of rural products and support education.
It will look at key issues in 3 areas where applications and use ICTs
and related technologies make a difference:
- Technologies and technology integration
- Chain management and stakeholder´s integration incl. public & private
- Education and local experience integration
See: http://www.agrifuturedays.com/
The 12th international symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
5-8 July 2016 - MONTPELLIER
>>> Keynotes:
Dr. Linda J. YOUNG
Statistician in Chief and Director in USDA National Agricultural Statistics
Service (NASS), in Washington DC (USA).
Prof. Clémentine PRIEUR
Professor in applied mathematics, Grenoble University-INRIA.
Prof. Peter M. ATKINSON
Professor in Geography and Environment, Southampton and Lancaster Universities
Prof. Isabelle BLOCH
Professor in image processing and uncertainty theory at Télécom ParisTech-CNRS
>>> Workshops
« The spatial analysis of accuracy using geographically weighted frameworks
»
Prof. Alexis Comber (Leeds Univ., UK) and Dr. Paul Harris (Rothamsted
Research, UK)
full day workshop*
« Bayesian calibration and spatial uncertainty propagation »
Prof. Gerard B.M. Heuvelink (Wageningen, NL) and Prof. Sytze de Bruin
(Wageningen, NL)
full day workshop*
« Positional accuracy assessment and control »
Prof. F.J. Ariza-López (Jaén Univ.) & Prof. J. Rodríguez-Avi (Jaén
Univ.)
half-day workshop*
See: https://colloque.inra.fr/spatial-accuracy2016/Fees-registration
See: http://www.spatial-accuracy.org/
See: https://colloque.inra.fr/spatial-accuracy2016/Media/Fichier/Workshops-details-and-registration-open
The networked farm thrives
At Frahm Farmland near Colby, Kan., being connected is the only way to
go. The approach allows the farm to cover many acres and manage each precisely.
The big flat-screen television in the office at Frahm Farmland shows a
digital map of the farm’s fields around the region, including machinery
locations. “We put that on the screen so it’s easy for everyone to see
what’s going on,” says Jason Schielke, who heads up information technology
for the operation.
Frahm Farmland is a 30,000-acre corn and wheat operation that has turned
to the cloud and enhanced data management to improve efficiency and productivity
in the operation. And while deploying all that tech has a range of advantages,
the first one Schielke points to is that use of the cloud for information.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/tech-work/networked-farm-thrives
Cellular RTK, soil analysis tool, irrigation sensor, mobile data system
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/precision-farming/cellular-rtk-soil-analysis-tool-irrigation-sensor-mobile-data-system
ClearAg: Real-time Decision Support Wherever You Are
Whether you’re at your desk or in the field, use ClearAg to define,
defend, and clarify what’s happening in your fields right now.
See: https://www.clearag.com/mobile_app
Eating
green could be in your genes
See: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/eating-green-could-be-your-genes
Genetically Modified Maize: Less Drudgery for Her, More Maize for Him?
Evidence from Smallholder Maize Farmers in South Africa
See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16000498
Can Liberals Frack?
Liberals can sincerely differ on whether a near-term increase in carbon
emissions is worth the long-term scarcity of oil and gas. These aren’t
easy questions. You don’t have to support fracking to be a liberal, but
you are not a shill for the fossil fuel industry if you do.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/opinion/can-liberals-frack.html
Philippine Supreme Court GMO ruling shows vulnerability but offers
hope when farmers speak up
See: http://globalfarmernetwork.org/2016/04/philippine-supreme-court-gmo-ruling-shows-vulnerability-but-offers-hope-when-farmers-speak-up/
For studies on GMO food safety, does length matter?
Anti-GMO activists have long demanded that scientist extend the duration
of animal studies to evaluate the risks of genetically modified food and
feed. In 2013, writer Tom Philpott began hyping the now-discredited Gilles-Éric Séralini study on GM corn and rats in Mother Earth News, he framed the study as the “longest-running
GMO study” (at two years)–which was not accurate. Later that year, Australian
researcher and anti-GMO advocate Judy Carman released a study on pigs, this one clocking in at 154 days,
and claimed that the longer-term study found differences in inflammation
among pigs fed GM feed.
The actual data from both of these, and other, studies, does not actually
support the claims of harm made by the authors. But that hasn’t stopped
activists from demanding animal feeding studies of increasingly longer
durations, even up to 30 years.
See: https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/05/studies-gmo-food-safety-length-matter/
Glyphosate: Why Greenpeace, PAN and MEP Pavel Poc are Monsanto Shills
See: https://risk-monger.com/2016/04/13/glyphosate-why-greenpeace-pan-and-mep-pavel-poc-are-monsanto-shills
Work, Life, and Everything
See: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/work-life-and-everything/?emc=edit_ty_20160404&nl=opinion&nlid=73467846
How the World Health Organization's cancer agency confuses consumers
See: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-who-iarc/
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Moses came down
the mountain with three tablets with God's commandments written on them
The crowd waiting for him cried out:
" Moses there are way too many commandments to follow, go right back
up there and negotiate with him."
So Moses goes back up the mountain and in while he comes back with just
two tablets.
He faces the crowd and says:
"I have's good news and bad news. The good news is I got him down
to ten, the bad news is adultery is still in."
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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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