Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), August 12, 2019
EFITA newsletter / 890 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Correction! Thanks Dear Andy! I thought that it is different in French and English. But it is the same. In French: Le bon vieux temps (GW)
Hi Guy hope you are well? I’ve noted your photo series in the EFIFA newsletter entitled - ‘The Old Good Days’. There is this thing in English called order of adjectives.
Strictly speaking if should be ‘Good Old Days’ just as we say Big Bad Wolf in children’s stories and not Bad Big Wolf!
Sorry! From your ‘amazing, large, round, old, white, English, under-employed, friend’, Andy OFFER
E-mail: andy(a)whylehouse.co.uk
Good old days: Two Peasant Women Digging in Field with Snow 1890, by Vincent Van Gogh (mostly Dutch or French?)
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How fertilizer companies are using technology to stay relevant
Charlotte Hebebrand, is director-general of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), a nonprofit organization that represents the global fertilizer industry, on issues related to the promotion of plant nutrients, improvement of the operating environment of the member companies and the collection and compilation of industry information. We caught up with her to find out how the industry is reacting to the wealth of new innovation coming into the sector.
See agfundernews.com
‘Technologies are only as good as their datasets’
Getting usable data and lowering data acquisition costs are the main challenges for the precision farming industry, says CEO and co-founder of Prospera, Daniel Koppel.
See futurefarming.com
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Flurosat available across Americas with new investment
FluroSat has raised an US$ 3.2 million investment round and is now availaible to all agronomists across the Americas.
See futurefarming.com
More tech-adoption pressure in Canada’s food sector
In many ways Canada is a small global player when it comes to secondary industry – that is, manufacturing and processing as opposed to primary commodity production, and this applies to food as much as it does petroleum. Given the circumstances, many feel tech-adoption is the main way Canadian industry can stay competitive.
See futurefarming.com
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Sensoterra and JoinData to provide soil moisture data
Dutch companies Sensoterra and JoinData announced a partnership to empower Dutch growers in making data-driven irrigation decisions for optimum land management and yield.
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Agrobot takes strawberry harvesting robots to US
Agrobot robots are harvesting strawberries in California on a large scale.
See futurefarming.com
The Yield Lab LatAm (Latin America) reveals 2nd cohort and increasing diversification among LatAm agrifood entrepreneurs by Louisa Burwood-Taylor
See agfundernews.com
Is honesty always the best policy?
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Luc BECKER
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USDA to deregulate BASF’s GM Canola and Verdeca’s GM soybean
See agropages.com
How trees could save the climate
Around 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation,
which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions.
The Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich has published a study in the journal Science
that shows this would be the most effective method to combat climate change.
See
ethz.ch
Agrihome Expressions
Your interests in Agriculture is enough. With the right resources and
guidance, success is sure. That is where you meet us.
See agrihomegh.com
FAO Agroecology Newsletter - July 2019 / Issue #25
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FAO
The world faces ‘pollinator collapse’? How and why the media get the
science wrong time and again, by Jon Entine
Let’s be direct here: the real reason many advocacy groups stir the crisis
pot on pollinators is to embolden their attacks on the use of pesticides,
which farmers utilize to manage harmful insect infestations. Pollinators
clearly face complex health challenges but simplistic diagnoses and selective
bans on comparatively safe pesticides, if enacted, are likely in this
case to lead to even worse problems. In other words, as well meaning as
they may be, and there is no reason to think they do not believe the narrative
they promote, some prominent bee-protecting advocacy groups are directly
endangering bees and our food system.
With neither the facts nor science on their side, the catastrophists continue
to pound the table. Those of us who actually care about science and fact,
however, might note the irony here: It is precisely the pesticides which
the catastrophists are urging us to ban that, along with the many other
tools in the modern farmer’s kit, have enabled us grow more of these nutritious
foods, at lower prices, than ever before in human history.
There is no pollinator-pocalypse. Eat your fruits and veggies. They’re
good for you.
See
geneticliteracyproject.org
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Events
Teacher asked the students to tell the importance of the year 1809.
John stand up and said “Abraham Lincoln was born”
Then teacher again asked the students to tell the importance of another year: 1819.
Then Sam suddenly stand up and said “Abraham Lincoln was ten years old”!
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