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Please take part in our SURVEY on usability of AGROVOC Thesaurus and its services AGROVOC team would like to invite you to participate in a Survey on usability of AGROVOC, the FAO multilingual agricultural thesaurus and its services. Your anonymous answers will be used to improve workflow in producing AGROVOC knowledge items (concepts and terms), and to enhance performance of web services supporting their publishing and sharing, as well as interoperability of AGROVOC with other Knowledge Organization Systems published and interconnected with each other as Linked Open Data. See: http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/survey-usability-agrovoc-thesaurus-and-its-services New Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda ICT-AGRI requires your help for a new Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda. Has new technologies and increased investments in ICT for agriculture resulted in a higher adoption by farmers? If not everywhere, then somewhere? Are there good lessons to learned? Contribute to a simple survey on adoption rates! Are the last twenty years' reasons for low adoption by farmers still valid? ICT-AGRI suggests ten common reasons that may not to be valid anymore. Do you agree? What do we really know about adoption of ICT by farmers? If you have access to investigations on adoption, please submit a link or upload a pdf See: http://ict-agri.eu/node/38092 GRAP / Universitat de Lleida quarterly update (June2017) We have recently worked hard to present you some improvements of our web site: a) NEWS section: the NEWS section is now a permanent single page were all entries are available and were you can simply scroll down to read them. b) PUBLICATIONS section: many recent publications have been added whether they are scientific, technical or presented in conferences. c) RESEARCH section: c.1) some research line were updated and the Precision Lifestock Farming Precision pig feeding research line was added. c.2) the VISITORS section has been updated with the lasts visits we had. See: http://www.grap.udl.cat/ Precision Fruticulture research between scientific excellence and impact A recent article in the scientific journal nature deserves attention: In the outlook on “Technology: The Future of Agriculture” the Precision Fruticulture approach pursued by ATB and Manuela Zude is acknowledged and described. Also the development of mobile Apps i See: http://go.nature.com/2rQsRu7
French figures DataBio, Data Driven Bioeconomy The Data-Driven Bioeconomy project (DataBio) focuses on the production of best possible raw materials from agriculture, forestry and fishery for the bioeconomy industry to produce food, energy and biomaterials taking into account responsibility and sustainability In order to meet the above objectives, DataBio is controlling and putting to use the innovative ICTs and information flows centered mostly around the use of proximal and remote sensors, in order to provide a streamlined Big Data Infrastructure for data discovery, retrieval, processing and visualizing, in support to decisions in bioeconomy business operations. See: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/206584_en.html See: https://www.slideshare.net/CzechCentre/data-bio-big-data-worksop-brussels?next_slideshow=1 See: https://www.databio.eu/en/ Innovator walks through history of precision agriculture See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/innovator-walks-through-history-precision-agriculture AEF's latest challenge: Encouraging manufacturers to get ISOBUS-certified by Tyler Harris Database identifies compatibility and functionalities of different implements and tractors. See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/aefs-latest-challenge-encouraging-manufacturers-get-isobus-certified Trimble to Acquire Müller-Elektronik to Extend its Precision Agriculture Capabilities from the Vehicle to the Implement See: http://investor.trimble.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=1027726
Civilization in 2017- this is priceless! (for the old angry (?) white man that I am – GW) - Our Phones - Wireless - Cooking - Fireless - Cars - Keyless - Food - Fatless - Tires -Tubeless - Dress - Sleeveless - Youth - Jobless - Leaders - Shameless - Relationships - Meaningless - Attitudes - Careless - Babies - Fatherless - Feelings - Heartless - Education - Valueless - Children – Mannerless We are-speechless, Government-is clueless, And our Politicians-are worthless! And I’m scared shitless...
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