Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 12 March 2018
EFITA newsletter / 817 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
AFITA / WCCA2018
25 – 27 October 2018 – MUMBAI
See: http://www.afita2018.org/afita_wcca2018/index.html
Contact: J. ADINARAYANA, Professor & Head Centre of Studies in Resources
Engineering,
President AFITA,
Editorial Member: Geoderma Regional (Elsevier); CIGR-VII/IT
IIT Bombay, Powai, MUMBAI - 400 076, India
See: http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/adi/
E-mail: adi(a)csre.iitb.ac.in
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Plyscraper city: Tokyo to build 350m tower made of wood
The $5.6bn cost of the 70-storey W350 Project is expected to be twice
that of a conventional building.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/16/plyscraper-city-tokyo-tower-wood-w350
Inside Vancouver's Brock Commons, the World's Tallest Mass Timber Building
See: https://www.archdaily.com/879625/inside-vancouvers-brock-commons-the-worlds-tallest-timber-structured-building
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Farmers Edge announces new partnership that aims to enhance insurance products and services in North America and beyond
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/ag-tech-firm-innovates-interesting-way-insurance
UAV software leader looks at future
Expect to get more information faster so you can make better-informed decisions.
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/aerial-imagery/uav-software-leader-looks-future
European data-driven AgTech startups
See: https://medium.com/remote-sensing-in-agriculture/european-data-driven-agtech-startups-766871185a63
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Precision farming tools must be affordable
New Zealand leads the world on crop-sensing research. However, its top precision farming researcher questions the value of some tools being sold to farmers. Ian Yule, director of the Centre for Precision Agriculture at Massey University talked to Future Farming.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Smart-farmers/Articles/2018/1/Precision-farming-tools-must-be-affordable-2700WP/
Agribotix enhances FarmLens with JD Ops Center
FarmLens creates a Shape File that contains the information necessary to create a 5m or 10m (16ft or 32ft) grid management zone map, that Agribotix says is compatible with most agricultural data management packages.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Tools-data/Articles/2018/1/Agribotix-enhances-FarmLens-with-JD-Ops-Center-4413WP/
Trends and practices of farm record databases
Benchmarking financials can be the key to a more profitable farm.
See: http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/enterprise-management/trends-and-practices-farm-record-databases
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Starting a farm data journey by Willie Vogt
Moving all that information stored on machines becomes family’s next obstacle to tackle.
Voir : http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/starting-farm-data-journey
5 tools (with a lot of ICT) for intuitive, successful spraying
These days, growers are faced with a host of application challenges. Ensuring your sprayer is properly calibrated for sprayer drift, there’re more challenges to overcome. Ag Leader has several universal techniques in house which makes spraying-life easier, more efficient and effective. All of those tools are housed in Ag Leader’s new ‘DirectCommand’ ISOBUS Liquid Control module. Tools that can help remedy many of these pressing topics.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Tools-data/Articles/2018/2/Five-tools-for-intuitive-successful-spraying-252805E/
Le distributeur Carrefour lance une «blockchain» alimentaire pour une traçabilité totale
La traçabilité en France chez le distributeur Carrefour c’est du sérieux. En rayon, le client n'aura qu'à scanner un «QR code» pour voir s'afficher sur son smartphone toutes les informations relatives au produit : sa provenance, son mode de production, l'élevage dont il provient.
C’est la première «blockchain» alimentaire. Derrière ce nom cryptique, une chaîne de données permet une traçabilité totale du produit «du champ à l'assiette», comme le veut l'expression consacrée de souligner le quotidien Le Figaro.
«La technologie blockchain, surtout utilisée dans le domaine des cryptomonnaies, permet le partage de fichiers sécurisés et infalsifiables. Appliquée au secteur alimentaire, elle permet à chaque acteur de la chaîne d'approvisionnement (producteurs, transformateurs et distributeurs) de renseigner les informations de traçabilité qui les concernent, et ce pour chaque lot. C'est ce principe que Carrefour veut appliquer en rayon pour apporter des garanties au consommateur», selon la porte-parole du groupe.
Voir : http://lavieagricole.ca/4638/
AgriFood Tech Investment Surges to $10.1bn Bringing in a New Normal
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Major acquisitions during 2017 changed the narrative around agtech exits, with John Deere acquiring robotics company Blue River Technology for $305 million, and DowDuPont acquiring farm management software platform Granular for $300 million. Both deals were applauded by investors and presented agrifood tech startups with a more recent model for exiting startups in the industry than Monsanto’s acquisition of Climate Corporation back in 2013.
These big deals involving big corporate ag players show the growing role of corporate investment initiatives. Syngenta Ventures was the most active strategic corporate VC in the farm tech space making five investments in 2017. Monsanto Growth Ventures, Maumee Ventures, BASF Venture Capital, Bunge Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Taylor Farms Ventures, and Cargill also participated in deals.
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See: https://agfundernews.com/agrifood-investment-surges-10bn-new-normal.html
Cargill Launches Second Tool in New Digital Suite, Targeting Aquaculture
iQuatic, Cargill’s digital platform for the aquaculture industry, is available to Cargill customers and for purchase as a standalone product.
See: https://agfundernews.com/cargill-launches-second-tool-new-digital-suite-targeting-aquaculture.html
Cargill to Launch Suite of Digital Tools, Considering Startup Acquisitions (October 2017)
Cargill has released the first of a suite of digital tools across its animal nutrition business — Dairy Enteligen — and is set to announce at least four more before the second half of next year, according to SriRaj Kantamneni, managing director of Cargill’s Digital Insights department.
Cargill is creating a “cloud-first technology platform” that will have different go-to-market farm management and data analysis products relevant to individual species built off it.
Animal nutrition is just one of Cargill’s five enterprises; the company at-large plans to roll out similar digital technologies across all five, including the grain origination business and food ingredients, according to Kantamneni.
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See: https://agfundernews.com/exclusive-cargill-to-launch-suite-of-digital-tools-considering-agtech-acquisitions.html
Cargill Backs Livestock Vision Tech Cainthus
Cainthus, an Irish startup focused on using computer vision and predictive imaging analysis to monitor the health and well-being of livestock has received an undisclosed investment from protein giant Cargill.
Cainthus uses various types of imaging equipment to monitor livestock operations while artificial intelligence and custom algorithms detect behavior in individual animals to monitor their health and alert the user when an action is required. The Cainthus system is able to detect food and water intake in individual animals as well as when the animals are in heat and more, says founder David Hunt.
Imagery can come from drones, satellites, CCTV, and smart devices, but the most common set-up in Cainthus trials is an installation of a few dozen CCTV cameras on dairy farms.
See: https://agfundernews.com/cargill-backs-cainthus.html
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Scary new scam could swipe all your closing money - Chicago Tribune
Cybercriminals have been hacking into the computer accounts of real estate agents, then sending emails to clients with false bank wiring instructions. The scam can cost victims hundreds of thousands of dollars.
See: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-re-0403-kenneth-harney-column-20160331-column.html#share=email~column
The State of American Wages 2017
Wages have finally recovered from the blow of the Great Recession but are still growing too slowly and unequally by Elise Gould - March 1, 2018
Rising wage inequality has been a defining feature of the American economy for nearly four decades. In 2017, with an improving economy, all deciles in the overall wage distribution have improved, meaning most workers finally have higher hourly wages now than in 2007, the labor market peak before the Great Recession hit. However, large gaps by gender, race, and wage level remain, and some of these gaps are increasing.
See: http://www.epi.org/publication/the-state-of-american-wages-2017-wages-have-finally-recovered-from-the-blow-of-the-great-recession-but-are-still-growing-too-slowly-and-unequally/
The ethical concerns about transgenic crops by Agnès E. RICROCH, Michèle GUILLAUME-HOFNUNG, Marcel KUNTZ
In Biochemical Journal, 2018, 475 (4) 803-811
See: http://www.biochemj.org/content/475/4/803
Résumé en français : http://www.marcel-kuntz-ogm.fr/2018/03/ethical-concerns-about-transgenic-crops.html
The Developing World Needs GMOs
See: http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2018/02/08/the-developing-world-needs-gmos
Anti-GMO articles tied to Russian sites, ISU research shows (ISU: Iowa State University)
The former communist country is trying to influence American's attitudes about genetically engineered crops and biotechnology, according to new Iowa State University research.
Russia is funding articles shared online that question the safety of GMOs in an effort hurt U.S. agriculture interests and bolster its position as the "ecologically clean alternative" to genetically engineered food, said Shawn Dorius, an ISU assistant sociology professor.
See: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2018/02/25/russia-seeks-influence-usa-opinion-gmos-iowa-state-research/308338002/
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He says: “So what’s bothering you?”
She replies: “Oh, Father, I’ve terrible news. My husband passed away last night.”
The priest says: “Oh, Mary, that’s terrible. Did he have any last requests?”
"Certainly father," she replied. “He said: “Please Mary, put down that damn gun.”
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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".
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