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French EU minister, Mme Nathalie Loiseau, has called her new cat Brexit
(not real, but funny)
He wakes me up every morning meowing to death because he wants to go out.
And then when I open the door he stays put, undecided, and then glares
at me when I put him out.
My remark (GW): We are devastated by the Brexit!
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InfoAg: The gateway for shaping the future of precision and digital
agriculture
26 - 28 August 2019 - Campinas - São Paulo State, Brazil
Learn how the digital revolution is changing agriculture… After years
of success in the US, the organizer of InfoAG is partnering with New Ag
International and coming to South America to create the premier event
for discussion and advancement for precision agriculture looking at field
centric monitoring with imagery and sensors, seamless connectivity with
IoT, data analytics and prediction modeling, variable rate technology,
prescription platforms and digitalization. Join us in São Paulo State
to meet with the leaders of the Precision and Digital Agriculture World.
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DigitAg, the French Digital Agriculture Convergence Lab…
…is one of the 10 French Convergence Labs financed under the Investissements d’Avenir programme. The only Convergence Lab dedicated to agriculture, it is also the only one in the Occitanie Region and the first of the I-Site MUSE Montpellier University of Excellence. Led by Irstea, it was created in 2017 by 17 founding members.
#DigitAg brings together around 400 scientists, researchers and lecturers from 29 research units in four research organisations (Irstea, Inra, Inra, Cirad and Inria), three higher education institutions (University of Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro, AgroParisTech) and agricultural technical institutes (Acta). At the heart of our research activities, around 100 doctoral students have been or will be recruited to boost knowledge creation in digital agriculture. The innovations resulting from our research will benefit from support from the company AxLR.
#DigitAg also provides initial and ongoing training with the creation of a Graduate School, in other words the multidisciplinary grouping of 20 Masters and Specialised Masters, which all train students who will be able to embark on careers in digital agriculture. Its originality: four new interdisciplinary Masters courses in the pipeline, a hands-on learning site and eight member companies of #DigitAg that have committed to training and hosting students.
See hdiitag.fr
Old good times
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Cultivators in the Fields, Pontoise Camille Pissarro, 1875 |
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Hive-Manager: Your beehives always under control (CH)
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Piracicaba’s Ag Tech Valley is innovation factory
When universities, private initiatives and public power gather efforts, ideas become concrete solutions. This is exactly what is happening in Piracicaba´s Ag Tech Valley, in São Paulo state, the large Brazilian hub for agricultural innovation.
See futurefarming.com
Taranis updates platform for aerial imagery
Taranis launches its enhanced platform for aerial imagery insights into farming.
See futurefarming.com
Autonomous crop management solutions to come
See futurefarming.com
Valmont Industries and Israeli based start-up/scale-up Prospera have entered into a global partnership to set the course to provide growers with autonomous crop management solutions generating greater returns, while requiring fewer production inputs and resources.
See futurefarming.com
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Transforming Africa's agriculture: Eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground
Recognising the opportunities offered by the drone-based systems, in 2016 CTA partnered with leading private sector operators, and assisted African ICT start-ups in acquiring the capacity to deliver UAS services in the framework of this project known as 'Transforming Africa’s agriculture: Eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground'.
See cta.int
Drones could become one of the main drivers of agricultural growth in Senegal
Malick Diagne is the head of GeoRisk Afric, a company founded in March 2016. He attended training sessions on drone usage for precision agriculture organised by CTA and the French company, Parrot, as part of the “Eyes in the Sky” project. In this blog, using his 12 years’ experience in environmental and natural resource management, the Senegalese head of the company explains the fascinating and critical innovation opportunities that drones provide for the gathering of geospatial data.
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Africa goes digital consortium: Transforming Africa into #TheAfricaWeWant
Africa Goes Digital is a consortium comprised of 30+ African start-ups that are providing digital services in the sectors of agriculture, energy, surveying, geographical information systems, engineering, construction, oil & gas, documenting cultural heritage, disaster risk management, humanitarian and research. We offer also capacity building in the use of drone technology. Members of the consortium leverage the power of digital technologies such as unmanned aerial systems or geographical information systems to generate high-end products.
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First-Ever Israel AgriFood Tech Funding Report: 2014-2018
AgFunder just released the inaugural Israel AgriFood Tech Startup Investing Report in collaboration with our report partner Start-Up Nation Central.
In this five-year review of Israeli agrifood tech startup investment activity between 2014 and 2018, we detail $759 million of investment across 278 deals. While the totals may appear low next to the $17bn invested in agrifood tech in 2018, for a country the size of the US state of New Jersey, these figures are impressive. There are many macro and micro reasons for this level of innovation, and the outsized traction Israeli startups get on the world stage, making it an important market to watch
A combination of farming background, world-class agronomic institutions, experience with modern military–grade data, imaging, and aerial technologies all drive Israel’s agrifood tech scene. Many company founders grew up on a kibbutz (pioneer farming communes), endowing experience that leads to on-farm solutions tailored for farmer ease-of-use, and to networks for facilitating trials.
For these reasons, Israel has naturally had an edge in agricultural innovation – and has produced some of agtech’s most mature and hi-tech farm technologies. Now the country is starting to produce leading food technologies, with particular strength in cultured meat and novel ingredients.
There is also a lot of local support for innovation including organizations like Start-Up Nation Central that are fostering innovation in a variety of industries. Because tech is a major export item, essential to the national economy especially in lieu of natural resources, the Israeli government invests in incubator programs and trials, in partnership with Israeli VCs, food corporates, academic institutions, and farmers.
Key insights from the report include:
- nearly $1 billion of exits across the supply chain
- a dominance in upstream technologies, particularly Farm Management Software, Sensing & IoT that raised $208m during the period.
- an active early-stage investment community, particularly the country's connected angel investor network
- 82% year-over-year growth in investment downstream, particularly retail technologies
- active strategic investment from global tech players and agribusinesses
Find out more about the key deals and investors driving Israel's trailblazing agrifood startup sector here:
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The Greek agriculture in the digital age. The challenges of the new CAP.
EurActiv Greece, the Association of the ICT enterprises in Northen Greece (SEPVE) and the American
Farm School of Thessaloniki organize an event on March 26, 2019 at 14.30, focusing on the topic: The Greek agriculture in the digital age. The challenges of the new CAP. The event will take place at the premises of the American Farm School.
See events.euractiv.com
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2019 Efita International Conference 27-29 June - RHODES - Greece The topics for the EFITA 2019 conference are detailed below within topic groups. Topic group 1: “Sensors” This topic group refers to the development or optimization of sensors and electronics for agricultural applications, such as field scouting and crop parameters monitoring. Particular sub-topics could be: - New sensors (optical, reflectance, etc.) - Wireless sensor networks - Image processing Agricultural robots are also within this topic, focusing on automation and control technologies to optimise robotic applications in agriculture. Particular sub-topics could be: - Scouting Robots - Action Robots - Machine embedded ICT tools Topic group 2: “Data” This topic group is related to all technologies and software that cure data mining, data warehousing, visualisation, knowledge extraction, big data management. Particular sub-topics could be: - Big data management - Data mining for agricultural information systems - Data visualisation - Data and Knowledge Management for extension services (with real examples) Other subjects within this topic are interoperability, semantics and knowledge management, such as: - Metadata and data standards in agriculture - Thesaurus management, Knowledge management - Ontologies for agriculture - Knowledge bases and Knowledge repository services - Web of Data, Linked Open Data Topic group 3: “Decision” This topic group is about modelling for simulation, prediction, crop management, design of ICT-intensive farming systems. Proposed sub-topics are: - Modelling and Simulation for agricultural production and farming systems - Weather prediction models for sustainable agricultural production - Multi-Agent systems Other “Decision” scientific work is about remote sensing, GIS technologies and spatial management of resources. It includes sub-topics such as: - Remote Sensing and GIS applications - Planning tools - Environmental information systems and Environmental management systems - ICT applications for natural resources management, including forestry - ICT applications for sustainable biomass production and use Finally, ICT applications regarding economical, organizational and business implications in agriculture are also used for business decision making. Such ICT tools are divided in: - Decision Support Systems for Agriculture - ICT applications for food chain and logistics - Traceability tools - ICT and business - Rural economies and ICT policies for rural development Topic group 4: “Action” This topic group is mainly about design of ICT applications for agriculture and sustainability focusing on precision and knowledge intensive agriculture. It includes sub-topics such as: - Computer tools for farming - Models of farming activity - Scientific computing applied to crop management -Expert systems in agriculture This topic group is also about web technologies and networking of actors all along the value chain of agriculture. It includes sub-topics such as: - On line farm services - Web applications (clients, devices, server-side) - Cloud computing applications - Social Networking, collaborative tools and crowdsourcing - Tools for e-agribusiness See efita2019 |
Avocados
A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6.
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"
He replied, "They had avocados."
If you're a woman, I'm sure you're going back to read it again! Men will get it the first time.
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