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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 8 April 2019 EFITA newsletter / 872 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment To unsubscribe this newsletter, please contact me directely: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net if this link Unsubscribe does not work. Please note that I changed the presentation of the links that are embedded in the name of the web service. What is the Future of Agriculture? 15-16 May 2019 - WAGENINGEN University - The Netherlands. F&A Next connects food and agriculture start-ups to investors, serving as a springboard to greater innovation and a better deal for all See agfundernews.com EuroTier – First-Hand Information for Animal Husbandry Professionals 17-20 November 2020 - HANNOVER See eurotier.com Audience Efita Newsletter 871 April 1,2019 See Efita 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.
A better way to fertilize Bill Gates posted a video about Pivot Bio’s genetically modified microbes that provide plants with the nitrogen they need without the excess greenhouse gases that synthetic alternatives produce. Watch this video to learn more about how it works. See go.synbiobeta.com Consumer watchdog group finds Monsanto weedkiller in chemtrails, by Stephan Neidenbach (Humour!) See medium.com up to the bottom of the page CSIRO: Creating a ‘digital homestead’ We are working with partners in Queensland to develop, test and demonstrate technology that can monitor and collect data about how cattle properties are running. See csiro.au CSIRO: Precision agriculture Our Precision Agriculture research is addressing key challenges in a range of farming systems, including viticulture, broadacre cropping, dairy and sugar farming. We're working with industry to develop and refine tools to assess, monitor and redress environmental and economic risks associated with agricultural practices. See csiro.au
Making the introduction of variable rate pay Good record keeping, and knowledge of growing condition differences, make precision application pay for grain farmers in Ontario, Canada. We asked 3 farms how they approach this technology in practice to earn back their investments. See futurefarming.com Smart planter can deliver farmers a higher yield Australian company Moisture Planting Technologies (MPT) has developed a tine based, tech-enabled broadacre planter that can monitor the conditions of the soil while planting. See futurefarming.com Kverneland Turbo T i-Tiller Isobus-controlled Kverneland Turbo T cultivators now have an optional Isobus control function, which automises depth and levelling. See futurefarming.com Plant stress makes early season weed control critical Do you get anxious when there are weeds in the field? Your crops sure do! See futurefarming.com CCI 1200 terminal certified for data exchange The CCI 1200 terminal is the first to be certified for data exhange and connects to agrirouter. See futurefarming.com IOF2020: making precision farming a reality The morning mist soaks into thick shreds across the country, above the sun rises and turns the horizon red. From the fog a soft humming sound, two tractors emerge. When he spots me, the driver of the second tractor steps out, but where is the driver of the first tractor? There is none, says the farmer, I operate both machines. How? Well, that strange vehicle you saw here last week has mapped the whole field and this map is now instructing the board computers of the two tractors how to drive. See iof2020.eu With the iPhone Sputtering, Apple Bets Its Future on TV and News Tim Cook is gambling that selling services, an area filled with risks and competition, will be the company’s next chapter. See wsj.com Pontifax AgTech Achieves 2nd Exit as Precision Biosciences IPOs with $870m Valuation, by Louisa Burwood-Taylor (March 28, 2019) Precision Biosciences, the gene-editing startup, started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange today after raising a $126.4 million IPO, valuing the company at $870 million. See agfundernews.com
5 Things Vonnie Estes Saw at World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit This Week in San Francisco, by Vonnie Estes The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit has exploded in attendance and scope over the years I’ve attended. This year over 1,200 eager attendees and a multitude of star-studded panels met in San Francisco, almost doubling attendance in 2018. …/… >>> 3. Technology adoption We have a technology delivery issue of solutions to growers and benefits to consumers. Matt Crisp of Benson Hill talked about how we have lots of technology, but we are not getting adoption as fast as expected. Margins are razor-thin throughout the supply chain. Producers may have little appetite to invest in new, unproven innovations with such tight margins and a limited amount of time to help new technology iterate. …/… See agfundernews.com How the humble shipping container could save Illinois farmers (Thank you Mr President - GW) The trade war has stopped China from buying soybeans by the ship. Could selling to customers who buy in much smaller quantities be the answer? See chicagobusiness.com Top 20 Innovative Food Startups in 2018 Innovative Food is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing novel food products and ingredients such as alternative meat – both plant-based and cell-culture-based — insect protein, alternative sugars, and flavor enhancers. See agfundernews.com Old good days ? Cultivating Agtech Leadership for Established Row Crop Leaders The wave of agtech has frequently been reported. Investor and entrepreneur visions for disruptive on-farm and transactional products and services are easily discovered. Not so commonly available, and in our view as the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) checkoff program, one of the drags on successful agtech innovation is the under-representation of the producers’ voice. See agfundernews.com Animal AgTech, The Sector’s Awkward Uncle, Proudly Struts Its Stuff In San Fran, by Richard Martyn-Hemphill (March 26, 2019) This year’s Rethink AgriFood Innovation Week in San Francisco saw an awkward uncle stride proudly into the week’s agenda for the first time with last Monday’s inaugural Animal AgTech Innovation Summit. See agfundernews.com Kaspera (I am a little bit sceptical, the soils are so complex! – GW) Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies. A major challenge to develop more sustainable methods in agriculture is to replace traditional agricultural inputs (synthetic and non-sustainable fertilizers and pesticides) by natural, safe, biosourced and biodegradable bioinputs. The most promising bioinputs are microbial-based, containing microorganisms that are beneficial to plants. Unfortunately, these products currently are unstable and only weakly perform in field conditions, limiting their use to strictly greenhouse-only. New enhancing technologies are urgently needed to sustainably and responsibly grow major crops, which are grown in fields, not greenhouses. Kapsera offers a novel solution to the world of sustainable agriculture, through its mastery of a unique and disruptive encapsulation technology that enables production of high performance microbial-based biofertilizers and biopesticides. Our patent-protected technology is based on a microfluidics encapsulation process, producing small alginate capsules. These capsules allow protection of live microbes to enhance the performance of bioinputs. Kapsera aims to be a key player in the formulation of bioinputs, to speed up the transition towards both productive and sustainable agriculture. See kapsera.com See agfundernews.com
Remember, if a dog was the teacher, you would learn things like… - When your loved ones come home, always run to greet them. - Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. - Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure Ecstasy. - Take naps. - Stretch before rising. - Run, romp, and play daily. - Thrive on attention and let people touch you. - Avoid biting when a simple growl will do. - On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass. - On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree. - When you’re happy, dance around and wag your entire body. - Delight in the simple joy of a long walk. - Be faithful. - Never pretend to be something you’re not. - If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it. - When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by, and nuzzle them gently. That's the secret of happiness that we can learn from a good dog. The distribution of this efita newsletter is sponsored by vitisphere.com Please, contribute to the content of your efita newsletter, and advertise your events, new publications, new products and new project in this newsletter. Without your support, it will not survive! Contact: Guy WAKSMAN E-mail: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To read this newsletter on our web site See Afia The archives of this newsletter See Afia About the EFITA mailing list You can use the efita moderated list (> 15000 subscribers) to announce any event / product / web site / joke (!) related to IT in agriculture, environment, food industry and rural areas. If you want to subscribe a friend, please fill in his form. If you do not wish to receive our messages, please fill in the following form... |