Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 24 September 2018
EFITA newsletter / 844 - European Federation for Information Technology
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CECE, Confederación Española de Centros Educativos (SP)
CECE is a non-profit employer´ and professional organization founded in
1977. It represents a wide educational sector in Spain from nursery school
to university level. It has more than 1.200 Education and training centres
among its members, what implies around 750.000 students and 40.000 teachers.
Currently CECE, is working on an ERASMUS + Project entitled, “Drone European
Platform”, in which the main focus of the project is to include innovative
technology in VET specifically in agriculture curriculum.
See Drone experiment
See CECE
Contact: Francisco MARTINS
E-mail: departamento.europa(a)cece.es
The tractor cabin of the future
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Future Farming
The latest Future Farming magazine is now available for you to read!
See Future
Farming
The first irrigation system with a brain
Israeli irrigation specialist Netafim recently launched its new precision
drip irrigation system NetBeat. The company likes to refer to it as the
second revolution in smart (drip) irrigation.
See
Future Farming
Automated documentation by connecting machinery
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions offer new possibilities for every farmer
to work more efficiently, identify economic potentials and to ensure safe
documentation – independently of age or manufacturer of machinery.
See
Future Farming
Amazone Citan seed drill updates
Half-width shut-off and operation through an Isobus digital communications
between implement and tractor are among updates for the latest Amazone
Citan-C air drill.
See
Future Farming
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TeleSense Closes $6.5m Series A for Grain Monitoring IoT Platform to Reduce Spoilage
TeleSense, a Silicon Valley startup using IoT technology to improve grain storage, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding from a range of strategic, industry investors as well as venture capital firms.
See AgFunder News
The Smartest Way To Monitor Your Grain
See Telesense
IoT In Agriculture: The Second Green Revolution’s Agtech Innovation (DEc. 2017)
See IoT by telesense
How Agtech Has Quietly Transformed Agriculture During the Downturn by Barclay Rogers
See Ag Funder News
Blockchain is Coming for Agriculture and You Might Not Even Notice by Remi Schmaltz (May 2018)
See Ag Funder News
Why the Best Is Yet to Come for Deere
How and why the agricultural machinery equipment sector still has upside potential.
See The Motley Fool
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Top 10 reasons to Go Digital this harvest
A farmer makes up to 144 decisions a day. Going digital gives you a real-time pulse on your operation to make those decisions with confidence.
See Granular
Farm Database Results: Part 1 - The data shows just over 60% of producers are profitable.
See cornandsoybeandigest:
Farm database results: Part 2 - Ability to service debt, by Dr. David Kohl
Some producers are being forced to seek off the farm employment to deal with the increasing healthcare costs.
See cornandsoybeandigest
CC-Isobus A3 aux-n controller
A new auxiliary controller for Isobus capable implements has a bespoke touch screen display to show the functions it can handle and both acoustic and vibration response when the operator uses it.
See Future Farming
Agco partners with AgIntegrated for easier data flow
A partnership with agricultural software developer AgIntegrated will enable Agco to offer its customers simpler and more reliable data exchange between equipment and farm management information systems.
See Future Farming
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Up to 31% higher rice yields with gene-editing
Scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have used gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice that produces 25-31% more grain.
They say this increase would have been virtually impossible to create through traditional breeding methods.
See Future Farming
Speech by Commissioner Phil Hogan at Opening of Wageningen University Academic Year
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It is in this light that the European Commission is advancing policies to facilitate increased digitization. For agriculture, this means that we are investing in new technologies; including digital tools; that will help the farmer to save both time and money while at the same time optimizing yields.
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See Wageningen
The Western Illusion of Chinese Innovation
Many Western observers – in media, academia, and government – now portray China as a fierce competitor for global technological supremacy, with top-down industrial policies that are enabling it to stand virtually shoulder-to-shoulder with Europe and the US. This is a serious misrepresentation.
See Project Syndicate
The US is at Risk of Losing a Trade War with China, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The “best” outcome of President Donald Trump’s narrow focus on the US trade deficit with China would be improvement in the bilateral balance, matched by an increase of an equal amount in the deficit with some other country (or countries). In fact, significantly reducing the bilateral trade deficit will prove difficult.
See Project Syndicate
Modern times
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Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance
Glyphosate (or DDT) responsible for all our problems (too funny)
Hate spiders? Love spiders? This product is for you!
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Old man
A man was telling his neighbor, 'I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but its state of the art... It's perfect.'
'Really,' answered the neighbor. 'What kind is it?'
'Twelve thirty...'
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