Châtenay-Malabry (FR
- 92290), 9 May 2016
EFITA newsletter / 737 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Montpellier
- France at SupAgro Ag University
See:
https://www.supagro.fr/
See: http://www.agrotic.org/blog/
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: Jean-Pierre CHANET, Bruno TISSEYRE
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, tisseyre(a)supagro.inra.fr
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GW nominated as "Officier du Mérite Agricole" by the French
Minister of Agriculture (January 31, 2016)
Congratulations,
Contact: Val REILLY
E-mail: vr269164(a)scarlet.be
My answer (GW): Thank you. I owe this honour to you, to Ian, Mick, Iver,
Guido, Gerhart, Karel, Sjaak, Ehud, Pavel, Miguel, Jerzy, Andy, etc.!
My birthday (GW) being born 9 May, 1950
I had very lately the surprise to observe that this was the "Schuman
day". I hope all the best for our precious European Union!
Today I participated in a meeting where I expressed my point of view
about the liberation of the rural children and women.
Q1 You know when the rural girls got the right to go to schools?
A. When the steel industry was able (around 1830) to produce cheap wire
enabling to easily create fences to keep the cattle out of cultivated
areas.
Q2: Do you know when the rural women got the liberty to choose their
husbands and to leave the rural communities where they were locked and
worked very hard in a kind of slavery conditions?
A.: When the industry provided cheap bicycles that enabled them to go
to the neighbour village or to the next small town.
Q3. Do you know when women and children were really liberated to very
hard works of weeds and pests controls?
A.: When the chemical industry became efficient enough to produce pesticides
that freed large propotions of rural people from terrible working conditions.
To be against pesticides means to be against the above described liberation
of women and children.
The last issue
Journal of Agricultural Informatics has been published
The journal is backed by an international editorial board, the Hungarian
Association of Agricultural Informatics (HAAI) and the European Federation
for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA).
We hope that the articles find your interest and are looking forward to
receiving your suggestions,
and publication interests.
The papers of Journal of Agricultural Informatics (JAI) are refered by
CrossRef, DOAJ, Cabi, EBSCO, MATARKA, MTMT, Google Scholar (See on : http://journal.magisz.org/ )
All JAI papers have DOI numbers.
>>> Journal articles of Vol 7, No 1 (2016)
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/15
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/15/showToc
>>> The issue of Vol 7, No 1 (2016) in PDF.
http://journal.magisz.org/files/journals/JAI_Vol_7_No_1.pdf
Papers in the Vol 7, No 1 (2016):
Györk Fülöp
Performance of Sentinel-2 data in unsupervised classification: a case
study of statistical comparison with Landsat 8 OLI
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/280
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/280/pdf_280
Reda M. M. Tabikha
Impacts of Temporal and Spatial Climatic Changes on Annual Generations
of Rhopalosiphum maidis and R. padi (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Egypt, Using
Geographical Information System (GIS)
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/249
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/249/pdf_249
Matthew Tscharke, Thomas M. Banhazi
A brief review of the application of machine vision in livestock behaviour
analysis
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/279
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/279/pdf_279
Martin Kjeldsen, Torben Gregersen, Stefan Rahr Wagner, Christian G. V.
Břgh, Carsten Nielsen
A system for monitoring real-time body parameters of sows using a lightweight
and flexible wireless sensor platform
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/252
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/252/pdf_252
Zeynel Cebeci, Figen Yildiz
Efficiency of Random Sampling Based Data Size Reduction on Computing
Time and Validity of Clustering in Data Mining
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/266
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/266/pdf_266
Victor P. Yakushev, Elena V. Kanash
Evaluation of wheat nitrogen status by colorimetric characteristics
of crop canopy presented in digital images
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/268
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/268/pdf_268
Fredrick Awuor, George Raburu, ArvinLucy Onditi, Dorothy Rambim
Building E-Agriculture Framework in Kenya
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/244
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/244/pdf_244
Péter Lengyel, István Füzesi, Ádám Péntek, Miklós Herdon
Human resource development using e-learning for Hungarian agricultural
experts
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/262
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/262/pdf_262
Bijan Kumar Roy, Subal Chandra Biswas, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
AgriCat: An One-stop Shop for OAI-based Open Access Agricultural Repositories
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/277
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/277/pdf_277
>>> Call for Papers
http://tamop.magisz.org/dokumentumtar/call-jai.pdf
Journal of Agricultural Informatics
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai
See: http://hermes.agr.unideb.hu/mailman/listinfo/jai-l
Miklós HERDON
(Editor in Chief)
E-mail: JAI-L(a)agr.unideb.hu
When I was young
/ Today
Expensive farm equipment is sitting idle on farms around the country.
MachineryLink Sharing wants to change that (By Andrea Peterson)
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/06/meet-the-site-that-is-like-uber-but-for-tractors/
See: https://www.machinerylink.com/
Project MARS: Research in the field of agricultural robotics. Precision
Farming - Thinking ahead.
MARS stands for Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms. Or in other words,
it stands for agriculture of the future.
They are mobile. They are cloud-controlled. And they are many. They are
the field robots of the future from Fendt. As a team, they collaborate in
a completely autonomous and efficient way and with high precision. The basic
idea is simplification.
How? Fewer sensors, robust control units and a clear hardware structure
make each individual MARS robot extremely reliable and productive. At the
same time, the use of a large number of small, identical robots operating
in a swarm enables smooth running of the job, even in the event of the failure
of a single unit.
Their light weight results in a high level of safety and negligible soil
compaction. And MARS robots are ready for operation, all around the clock.
These aspects combine to make field robotic systems a very attractive alternative
for the farmer of the future. This is our vision.
See: http://www.fendt.com/int/11649.asp
The
bottle of wine
Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona
when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.
As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the
Navajo woman whether she would like a ride.
With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.
Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk
with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently
at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed
a brown bag on the seat next to Sally.
'What's in the bag?' asked the old woman.
Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, 'It's a bottle of wine..
I got it for my husband.'
The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with
the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: 'Good trade'.
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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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