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InfoAg International: The gateway for shaping the future of precision agriculture 25 - 27 March 2019 - DUBLIN, Ireland Position yourself with technology advancements, information and contacts to join the journey from datanomics to agronomics to join the future of farming… - The power of data - Automation and its impact on farming - Data collection and data decisions - Nutrient management - Irrigation and fertigation management - How the influence of precision and digital farming can increase the value of biologicals inputs - Data standardisation for optimal connectivity - Precision Ag to help with regulatory compliance - Improving ROI with adopted technologies See InfoAg 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 22 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.
Looking ahead to ag tech opportunities, by Willie Vogt After less than six months, Bayer is moving ahead with new tech after acquisition of Monsanto John Deere releases video of GridCON electric tractor John Deere has released some technical details and a video of its upcoming GridCON electric tractor. See futurefarming.com Osram presents new near-infrared LED for smart farming Osram’s new broadband infrared LED is to help farmers plan the best time for harvest. See futurefarming.com Gradual switch from diesel to gas and electricity Hybrid and methane-powered engines seem to be the most logical successors to the diesel engine. The fully electric drive is on the way too, though that is some time off yet. Diesel’s days in agriculture are numbered. We analyse what the near future holds. See futurefarming.com Agtech is Useless if We Cannot Engage Farmers, by Connie Bowen and Sarah Nolet Agtech is useless if we cannot engage farmers. That seems pretty obvious – a product without a customer is of little value, and including customer input into the design and development process is best practice in every industry. But the question of how farmers and the agtech community of entrepreneurs, investors, and accelerators can work together to build great products is much harder to answer. See agfundernews.com What Do Women in AgriFood Tech Wish for in 2019? By Louisa Burwood-Taylor What do women in AgriFood Tech wish for in 2019? We asked members of the Women in AgriFood Tech Slack group and broadly they’re hoping for more collaboration, better tech solutions built with farmers, increased understanding of food’s role in climate change mitigation, more realism in funding, and greater diversity. See agfundernews.com The AgriFood Tech Industry’s 2018 Christmas Grinch List, by Lauren Manning The holidays offer a time to reflect on the closing year as well as a time to consider the things to come. This year, AgFunderNews reached out to the agrifood tech universe to find out what investors and startup execs are hoping to leave behind in 2018 as well as a glimpse of their wish list for 2019. While some folks relish the holidays, others loathe the long travel days, awkward in-law interactions, and the oh-so-dreaded Christmas music. For our first installment, we asked everyone to tap into their inner Grinch to share their 2018 pet peeves, overplayed tech trends, and the bad habits they hope we banish in 2019. See agfundernews.com
Canadian eGrocer SPUD Raises $8.2m Pre-IPO Funding for Food-X Urban Delivery, by Emily Payne “Customers care about sustainability, and we are proud to have partners who recognize that our unique platform offers a better, faster and more efficient fresh, healthy grocery delivery solution,” van Stolk wrote in a press release. See agfundernews.com Punching Above Your Wheat: How Israel Became a Hub for Agtech Startups, by OFIR SCHLAM Even before the state of Israel’s founding, pioneers emphasized cultivating the land through innovative and efficient agricultural work – 70 years after statehood, the fruits of Israelis’ labor in the fields and in the labs have been born out in the country’s flourishing agtech sector. Amid a new wave of global agtech development, Israel is at the forefront of the innovative solutions enabling farmers and agronomists to optimize crop management and feed the world, with 750 active startups and companies operating in the food tech and agtech sectors. Drawing on its vibrant tech ecosystem, the Startup Nation has harnessed its technological prowess to develop some of agtech’s most successful solutions and companies. How is this small country punching so high above its weight? And with next-gen farming just beginning to take root, how will the entry of multinational companies into the Israeli market impact local innovation? See agfundernews.com Farmer-Centric Accelerator AgLaunch Awards Row Crop Challenge Winner Kopper Kutter, by Lauren Manning Innova Memphis, a Tennessee-based venture firm, has announced the winner of its first $100,000 Row Crop Challenge powered by AgLaunch as part of the Farm Journal Expo last week. After pitching in the final four, selected from a group of national applicants, Kopper Kutter was voted by a panel of farmers as the lucky inaugural winner. See agfundernews.com Is technology the way to improve farming? The EU is asking all European farmers to take part in a survey to get a better view on the use of precision agriculture technologies in European agriculture. Is technology the way to improve farming? See futurefarming.com BASF and VanderSat collaborate to provide farmers with high-precision, field-specific crop optimization - Microwave sensing from space gives more precise measurement of moisture and temperature in fields - Integration into BASF's xarvio™ Field Manager enables high-precision forecasting of yield risk - Collaboration helps farmers make more accurate agronomic decisions See vandersat.com Can Precision agriculture be profitable? Is it worth investing in the technologies? Is it profitable investing in the training and education required to understand and manage PA solutions? - read the article HERE on page 20 See New Ag International
Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40% See news.agropages.com New Ag International newsletter See New Ag International EIP-AGRI seminar: Multi-level strategies for digitising agriculture and rural areas See EPI-AGRI Climate change could hit potato industry hard, researchers find Potato crops do not perform well in high temperatures, according to a new research paper, and that could be a problem as the weather warms with climate change. See potatonewstoday.com 5 Highly Recommended Farming Tips For The 2019 Farming Seasons See Agriculture in Ghana Year in Review (US Agriculture): Dr. David Kohl takes a look at the economics of 2018 See farmprogress.com Old good days??? (Haying Scene 1884 by Julien Dupre) Don’t believe the anti-GMO campaign, by G. Padmanaban (The Hindu Newspaper) GM crops have reduced pesticide use, increased yields and profits, and cause no health hazards See thehindu.com 'Impressive' results for anti-aging drug that targets damaged 'zombie cells' The new treatment involves a drug called dasatinib which is already licensed for killing cancer cells in leukaemia patients and quercetin, a common plant pigment. See ancouversun.com Making Climate Change Matter By Laurence Tubiana In a world ravaged by hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts, why has it been so hard to garner broad public support for efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels? The answer is all in the messaging. Paradoxically, the rhetoric of catastrophe we are hearing ever more frequently from worried scientists might – instead of encouraging action – be triggering a human reflex that scholars call “apocalypse fatigue.” Studies show that the brain will avoid or shut out overly apocalyptic or catastrophic discourse, particularly when such themes are not accompanied by talk of solutions. If a problem seems too large to solve by individual action, people will not expend psychic energy dwelling on it. See project-syndicate.org Trump vs. Ocasio-Cortez: Who Will Win the Internet? They both know how to control the narrative. But one of them comes across as a human being and the other as a cartoon bobblehead. What’s interesting about Mr. Trump’s digital efforts is that even though he is always online, he is not Extremely Online. Rather than fully engaging with the platforms and employing their nifty audio and video tools, he has stuck to text, using his own set of locutions and his own distinctive voice. While at first this made him seem, to many supporters at least, more authentic than the average politician, it is now making him look more and more like a giant cartoon bobblehead. The internet is not making him more of a person. See NYT
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