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EFITA newsletter / 877 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Splendid Mont Saint-Michel (France) for your next holydays in Europe Early in the morning and / or not in summer time!)
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How TartanSense is Building Small Robots for Small Farms in India
The robot is a semi-autonomous rover, which travels across the fields with a downward facing camera. The AI/ML system identifies pests using computer vision and then targets precision sprayers on them. The rover and its accompanying software will also gather land-based data, at a much higher resolution than from drones, generating reports with actionable insights for the farmer.
See agfunders.com
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 Future Farming
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 Future Farming
Kverneland Turbo T i-Tiller Isobus-controlled
Kverneland Turbo T cultivators now have an optional Isobus control function, which automises depth and levelling.
See Future Farming
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Plant stress makes early season weed control critical
Do you get anxious when there are weeds in the field? Your crops sure do!
See Future Farming
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 Future Farming
Nitrogen-fixing maize – with or without biotech?
One way to improve profitability, is to reduce input costs. When it comes to maize, one of those inputs – and a particularly significant one at that – is nitrogen fertiliser. But how much could you save if your maize, like legumes, could fix its own nitrogen?
See Future Farming
Chinese AgriFood Startups Raise $5.8bn in 2018 as Digital Penetration & Consumer Fragmentation Drive Growth
Chinese agrifood startups raised $5.8 billion of investment across 283 deals with 318 participating investors during 2018, according to the 2018 China AgriFood Startup Investing Report released by AgFunder in collaboration with Chinese food tech VC Bits x Bites.
See agfundernews.com
Disruption is a dangerous word for agtech
As I ponder how the 2019 season is starting to kick into high gear I find myself continually hearing about how someone is about to “disrupt” the agricultural world.
See Future Farling
MyFarm List: Effectively Promoting Your Agribusiness On A Free Platform
Voir agrihomegh.com
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Old good days by Camille Pissarro : Three Women Cutting Grass, 1886
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Gene editing: One-off injection may drastically reduce heart attack risk
Doctors hope to trial gene therapy on people with rare disorder in next three years.
See The Guardian
European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No.117 (Apr- May 2019)
See European Soil Data
EPA Takes Next Step in Review Process for Herbicide Glyphosate, Reaffirms No Risk to Public Health
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking an important step in the agency’s review of glyphosate. As part of this action, EPA continues to find that there are no risks to public health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label and that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. The agency’s scientific findings on human health risk are consistent with the conclusions of science reviews by many other countries and other federal agencies. While the agency did not identify public health risks in the 2017 human health risk assessment, the 2017 ecological assessment did identify ecological risks. To address these risks, EPA is proposing management measures to help farmers target pesticide sprays on the intended pest, protect pollinators, and reduce the problem of weeds becoming resistant to glyphosate.
See epa.gov
Verdicts Twist Road Ahead in Monsanto Cancer Litigation
See courthousenews.com
What Monty Python can teach us about Extinction Rebellion
See risk-monger.com
Cómo llenar de música la España vaciada
Daniel Broncano nació en una de las zonas rurales más despobladas de España. Tras recorrer el mundo como clarinetista profesional, creó Música en Segura, un festival de 'delicatessen' musicales que propicia el acceso a la cultura en el Parque Natural de las Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas (Jaén). En el medio rural también se cultiva progreso con imaginación, creatividad y cultura.
Ver elpais.com
Trump Is Terrible for Rural America, by Paul Krugman
His biggest supporters are his biggest victims.
See NYT
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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 |
The President's Limo Driver
The Presidential Limousine, known as "The Beast, is driven in motorcades by men who are highly trained. They are able to spontaneously reverse direction in unison should there ever be a threat to the president.
They are required to be able to quickly extract the president and themselves from the danger. The attached video demonstrates some of their required skills.
You've probably have never seen anything like this before. When you take into account that the Secret Service limo driver for the President is driving a 12,000 lb. automobile at speeds up to 60 mph in reverse, over a one mile course, it's even more amazing.
This car has about 800 horse power. The vehicle the President uses also is weaponized and uses a totally independent air conditioning system with its own oxygen supply in case there is any gas or chemical attack.
See President’s Limo
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Mél : luc.becker(a)wanadoo.fr
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