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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 3 décembrer 2018 EFITA newsletter / 854 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment To unsubscribe this newsletter, please contact me directely: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net Please note that I changed the presentation of the links that are embedded in the name of the web service. To correspond with me (GW), please use this address: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To subscribe the efita newsletter (please ask your friends and colleagues to test this link) Efita Newsletters subscription Weekly newsletters about ICT in Agriculture in English and French Both newsletters have around 14000 subscribers. >>> Last weekly EFITA Newsletters in English (created in 1999) Efita Newsletters >>> Last weekly AFIA Newsletters in French (created 20 years ago in 1997) Afia Newsletters 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.
Efita Newsletter Audience See Efita 47% of French farmers equipped with GPS on their farm (survey through Internet) In a survey conducted in October 2018, more than 47% of farmers report being equipped with a satellite positioning system on their farm. Most use it for guiding or auto-guiding their equipment. See terre-net.fr In France, our cars after the WW2 and the Liberation Nos bagnoles
Paris international agribusiness show 24 - 28 February 2019 - Paris Nord Villepinte, France Designed as a special show feature, the Start-Up Villages will be located in Hall 4 at the heart of the Precision Farming sector. The friendly Start-Up Villages will be a real springboard to help young businesses get noticed alongside the big names. - AgriCommunity Designed as a special show feature, the Start-Up Villages will be located in Hall 4 at the heart of the Precision Farming sector. The friendly Start-Up Villages will be a real springboard to help young businesses get noticed alongside the big names. - Agriconomie Agriconomie is a platform where farmers can find a wide range of agricultural products: fertilisers, seeds, filters, etc. - Agri-échange Agri-échange is an online non-cash platform for exchanging agricultural machinery services between farmers. - AgriSolution AgriSolution is a company that provides simple solutions to farmers. It is the inventor of Irricam, a camera that monitors farm irrigation at a glance. Connected by 3G to the farmer’s equipment, the camera delivers sound and pictures to enable the farmer to check on the progress of irrigation. This simple and effective solution uses the farmer’s smart phone as an interface. - Airinov Airinov maps fields with unprecedented precision thanks to its drones. Like an X-ray or a scanner, the Airinov drone sees what the human eye cannot pick up, and enables farmers to monitor plants at key moments in their development. - Aptimiz Aptimiz boosts farm profitability and improves farmers’ day-to-day lives by giving precise information and control of their working hours. - Captain Farmer (Agritel) - Carbon Bee Carbon Bee is the developer of a hyperspectral camera for farming drones, agricultural robots and cameras for tractors. - ClicParcelle ClicParcelle is an application that enables farmers to manage their work, yields, harvests and quality, and even their partners and costs. - ComparateurAgricole.com ComparateurAgricole.com compares the best agricultural offers available directly from farms. The site offers to sell farmers’ cereals, wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, etc. on a futures basis and to buy their fertilisers at the best price. - Ekylibre Ekylibre is an open-source management application for connected, sustainable farming.
- EnerBIOflex EnerBIOflex is an independent consultancy firm specialising in energy for the farming world. It supports farmers in their energy-related activities (optimisation of energy supply contracts). - Exotic System Exotic System designs connected devices for vehicles, industry and agriculture: the goal is to help its customers to “grow connected”. - FarmLEAP FarmLeap is a service platform for farmers wanting to improve their performance by sharing their knowledge and simplifying the management of their land. - Farmviz Farmviz works on ways to anticipate agricultural yields for farmers and cooperatives. - Go4ioT Go4ioT supports small and mediumsized businesses without special skills in connected devices, helping to deploy solutions to optimise their operations and maintenance. It also offers KHIKO, a professional tracker to protect devices against theft in the agricultural and construction sector. - Javelot Javelot is the first connected thermometry solution for grain storage. - Ker’innov Ker’innov Your vehicles under control. Enhance productivity and safety with My-Optimo.com by having everything about your equipment at your fingertips on your smartphone, tablet or computer. - LITUUS Connected collars for cows - LV Digital LV Digital is a service company for the agricultural sector. It manages websites such as the online portals www.traktorpool.de/fr (second-hand agricultural equipment and buying and selling of construction equipment). - MiiMOSA MiiMOSA is the first crowdfunding site for agriculture and food. - Naïo Technologies Naïo Technologies specialises in agricultural robots and autonomous guidance. - Perfarmer Perfarmer offers a tool to help farmers optimise their crop rotation, technical sequences, input buying, cereals marketing or mechanisation strategy. - Piloter sa ferme (Bipilote) Piloter sa ferme (Bipilote) develops tomorrow’s economic steering tools based on the increasing digitisation of services, the mathematical power of algorithms and good old “farming common sense”. - Precifield Precifield scans soil variability to tailor interventions locally and generate savings. The innovation concerns new interventions and crops: irrigation, plant health products, etc. in vineyards, open fields and horticulture. - SAMSYS SAMSYS designs innovative, easy-touse interfaces and digital tools for the management of agricultural equipment for cooperatives, contractors and farmers. - Tip Tap Pro Tip Tap Pro enables farmers to receive information relevant to their job (alerts and podcasts) while listening to their favourite radio station as they work. - VotreMachine.com VotreMachine.com is the first agricultural machinery rental site created by farmers for farmers. - Weather Measures Weather Measures focuses on precision meteorology and maximising the value of multi-source meteorological data. See SIMA 2019 Annual wheat yield in France from 1815 to 2018 (No, it wasn't better before!) Manage your agricultural operation, secure your practices, consolidate your data, and so on. Find out more about our agricultural software programs in order to optimise your productivity! See SMAG, smart agriculture Understory Raises $7.5m to Power Global Expansion of Weather Monitoring Network Weather network and analytics company Understory has raised $7.5 million in what it describes as a growth round led by 4490 Ventures. DC-based firm Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, which was founded by former AOL CEO Steve Case, also joined the round as a new investor. Rise of the Rest focuses on companies located outside of Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston; Understory is based in Madison, Wisconsin. See agfundernews.com India’s CropIn Raises $8m Series B to Digitize Smallholder Farms at Scale by Louisa Burwood-Taylor CropIn Technology Solutions, an Indian agriculture technology startup, has raised Rs58 crores ($8 million) in Series B financing from Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures India) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund. See agundernews.com Turkish Fintech for Farmers Raises $1.3m Seed Round, Targets 2019 Expansion by Colin Ley Tarfin, the Turkish digital platform that enables farmers to access agriculture inputs through instant financing solutions, recently completed a $1.3 million seed round. Collective Spark Fund, a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology startups in fintech, consumer tech, and SaaS, led the round with a co-investment from Wamda Capital, a multistage VC focused on digital disruption. See agfundernews.com ApisProtect Raises $1.8m Seed Funding to Monitor Bees with IoT by Louisa Burwood-Taylor ApisProtect, an Irish startup using Internet-of-Things technology to monitor beehives, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. The startup measures data from beehives — including temperature, humidity, CO2, sound, and movement data — and analyzes that data to provide beekeepers with alerts about potential issues that could lead to bee colony losses. Bees are responsible for one-third of the food the world eats, but bee colony losses are on the rise with US beekeepers losing around 38% of their colonies between 2015 and 2016, according to a national survey. See agfundernews.com
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