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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 24 July 2017


EFITA newsletter / 791 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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>>> Last weekly EFITA Newsletters in English (created in 1999)
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>>> Last weekly AFIA Newsletters in French (created 20 years ago in 1997)
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Around 15% of subscribers have a look on these newsletters. A rather normal rate…
The archive for the last years are available on the AFIA web site.

Séminaires

Modelia / Afia

>>> Journée Internet des Objets (IoT) en agriculture – le 28 avril 2017 à Boigneville
Voir : http://www.numerique.acta.asso.fr/iot_agriculture28avril2017/


>>> Robotisation en agriculture : états des lieux et évolution
(séance publique de l'Académie d'agriculture de France du 25 janvier 2017)
Voir :
http://academie-agriculture.fr/actualites/academie/seance/academie/robotisation-en-agriculture-etats-des-lieux-et-evolution?250117


>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture
(séance publique de l'Académie d'agriculture de France du 23 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.academie-agriculture.fr/seances/reseaux-sociaux-et-agriculture?230316

>>> Big Data et Agriculture (10 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/actes-du-seminaire-big-data-du-10-mars-2016/

>>>
API Agro (10 février 2016)
La conférence "API-AGRO", organisée par l'Acta, a rassemblé plus de 150 personnes autour des API et de l'Agriculture Numérique... Revivez la conférence organisée par les partenaires du projet.
Voir : http://www.api-agro.fr/actes-conference/


>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture (19 juin 2015)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/base-documentaire/afia-colloque/2015_-_reseaux-sociaux/#wpfb-cat-87

>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 2ème partie (7 janvier 2015)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> Les nouveaux capteurs en Agriculture (19 avril 2014)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/colloques-afia/afia-colloque/2014_-_capteurs/#wpfb-cat-5


>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 1ère partie : état des lieux et perspectives (12 novembre 2013)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63

>>> La modélisation entre recherche et développement agricole, allers et retours... Des modèles scientifiques aux outils logiciels : ambitions, expériences, réflexions, propriété intellectuelle (29 mars 2013)

Voir :
http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=35


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, François BRUN
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, francois.brun(a)acta.asso.fr


EFITA 2017 at Montpellier SupAgro
Montpellier Sup Agro with more than 1600 students enrolled has an academic staff of 88 professors and 345 external lecturers and 450 other personnel. This National Institute of Further Education in Agricultural Science offers a full range of courses from Bachelor of Science Degree level vocational qualifications to PhD level, as well as a range of agricultural engineering training curricula.
The institute is deeply implicated in international education: 25 % of the students are from other origins than France with 50% of PhD students from abroad.
http://www.supagro.fr/web/en/pages/?idl=19&page=1368


EFITA 2017 : Thomas Jefferson à Montpellier (accrochée au mur du pavillon des Relations Internationales de Montpellier, une plaque rappelle le souvenir du 3ième Président des États-Unis)
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À Montpellier il admire la vue panoramique du Peyrou et assiste à une pièce de théâtre. À quelques kilomètres de la ville, il découvre le village de Saint-Georges d’Orques dont la production vinicole ornera régulièrement la table de Monticello et celle de la Maison-Blanche. À Sète où il loge au Grand Gaillon, Jefferson fait la rencontre du docteur Lambert qui, vigneron lui-même, l’initie au Frontignan en le recevant à dîner.
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Thomas Jefferson, la France et ses terroirs : itinéraires œnologiques d'un ambassadeur des États-Unis sous l'Ancien Régime (1787-1788)
Voir : http://oracle-reunion.pagesperso-orange.fr/documents/jefferson.html


Thomas Jefferson in Paris for ever















Thomas Jefferson: Sally Hemings’s Parisian Affair
See: https://uramericansinparis.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/sally-hemings-parisian-affair/


Thomas Jefferson: Journey through France and Italy (1787)
See: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/journey-through-france-and-italy-1787


Thomas Jefferson in Monticello: the small, windowless room is 14 feet, 8 inches wide and 13 feet long of Sally Hemings
A renovation at Thomas Jefferson’s estate will give the slave he likely fathered at least six children with a display in what may have been her quarters.
See: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sally-hemings-gets-her-own-room-monticello-180963944/


The virtues of Agriculture by Thomas Jefferson
- "Agriculture... is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787. ME 6:277
- "The cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous citizens, and possess most of the amor patriae. Merchants are the least virtuous, and possess the least of the amor patriae." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:116
- "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1785. ME 5:94, Papers 8:426
- "The pursuits of agriculture [are] the surest road to affluence and best preservative of morals." --Thomas Jefferson to John Blair, 1787. ME 6:272
- "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:229
- "An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings, whether moral or political, than a lazy lounger, valuing himself on his family, too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor which is the sacred fund of the helpless poor." --Thomas Jefferson: Answers to de Meusnier Questions, 1786. ME 17:91
- "Agriculture... is the first in utility, and ought to be the first in respect." --Thomas Jefferson to David Williams, 1803. ME 10:429
See : https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff1320.htm

 


ICT-AGRI: Digitisation is considered as a solution to agricultural pbs by the EU
See: http://ict-agri.eu/


Keynote presentation on EFITA 2017 conference explanation utilisation of Open Data by Rural Communities byKarel CHARVAT


Block Chain Specialist (met at EFITA 2017: very interesting demo)
Contact: Jacco SPEK
E-mail: jacco.spek(a)tno.nl


Global solutions for soil analysis and crop monitoring
Our practical products and services give access to faster, cheaper and on-the-spot soil testing and greenhouse scouting.
See: http://www.soilcares.com/en

> Lab-in-a-Box
Direct on-site access to soil testing services only laboratories could provide until now
See: http://www.soilcares.com/en/products/lab-in-the-box/

>SoilCares Scoutbox
Beat the human eye. Digitally determine, count and locate harmful insects.
See: http://www.soilcares.com/en/products/scoutbox/

> SoilCares Soil Scanner
Instant, on-the-spot data and recommendations to get more out of your soil.
See: http://www.soilcares.com/en/products/scanner/


Trump's rural broadband goal won't be easy, it will be costly
President Donald Trump has promised to expand broadband service to rural areas as part of his $1 trillion nationwide infrastructure plan. That may be easier said than done.
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/trumps-rural-broadband-goal-wont-be-easy-it-will-be-costly


The world of real-time tech by Willie Vogt
Cheaper sensors, smarter software and some ingenuity will bring some very interesting machines to market in the future.
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/world-real-time-tech


Enhancing a data-focused digital tool by Willie Vogt
The Climate Corporation made a recent announcement about new aerial image resources, it's just the beginning.
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/enhancing-data-focused-digital-tool


Industry Events Supported by New Ag International
See: https://www.newaginternational.com/index.php/en/conferences/other-conferences

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How anti-modern farming agroecology NGOs spread GMO misinformation in Africa
Voir : https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/07/14/anti-modern-farming-agroecology-ngos-spread-gmo-misinformation-africa/


Scientists' Duplicity And Conflicts Of Interest Distort Regulation And Harm Farmers
Scientists prostituting themselves by delivering “bespoke” scientific findings for their corporate sponsors and corrupting the scientific literature is a favorite trope of environmental and anti-industry activists. They rail against undisclosed conflicts of interest that, were they known, should exclude the individuals–and their technical expertise–from regulatory studies and deliberations, thus leaving the activists’ specious views largely unopposed.

But what if activist environmental scientists had their own conflicts of interest–undisclosed to governmental bodies or the public–so that their participation in regulatory bodies enabled them to push the positions and prescriptions of the organizations to which they were beholden? Wouldn’t that make the activists bleating about “transparency” and their pogroms against industry-connected scientists the height of hypocrisy? Wouldn’t that be an obvious and pernicious double standard?
See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2017/02/08/european-conflicts-of-interest-and-double-dealing-harms-farmers-and-pesticide-manufacturers/#100385701660


Ten best things to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk:

10. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to."

8. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the Tip-ex. You probably got here just in time!"

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm."

6. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who practice Yoga?"

4. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."

3. "The coffee machine is broken..."

2. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot..."

1. And the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk...

1. "...in Jesus' name. Amen."


Next Efita
Congress
in Greece in 2019!

EFITA President: Michael Clasen
E-mail: michael.clasen(a)hs-hannover.de


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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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