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EFITA newsletter / 896 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Good old days (not for everyone!!!): The Milk Girl by Julien Dupré
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H2020_FAIRshare project newsletter - 1 Août 2019
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10 Best Agriculture Apps for 2019
Matt Hopkins on his annual column “top apps for agriculture” made a list to keep us informed regarding the latest trends in digital farming. Here are his top 10 agriculture apps for 2019:
See h2020fairshare.eu
AGBRIDGE app
It is a mobile app that allows users to move data from their in-cab field computer to their cloud account and desktop when paired with an AGBRIDGE Drive. There are a couple of new features that have been introduced recently that made an upgrade on the app, such as the new WIFI Direct feature that automatically sends and receives new files anytime a machine is in range of a trusted WIFI network, or a mobile HotSpot. The app is available for Andoid and IOS systems.
See agbridgedata.com
See h2020fairshare.eu
RRXtend Spray app
It is an app that helps farmers to plan sprays more effectively by providing weather projections including inversion risk probabilities. The app also gives farmers the ability to create and retain application records. The forecast feature helps growers and farmers identify the weather conditions and inversion risk before the spray applications. The app is available for Android and IOS systems.
See RRXtendSprayApp_FACT_SHEET
See h2020fairshare.eu
Xarvio Scouting app
It is an app that detects and identify in-field stress simply by taking a photo with a smartphone. The main goal of the app is to support farmers and agricultural advisors in their decision making. With this app, it will be easier to identify weeds, determine and count insects in the yellow traps, recognise diseases, analyse leaf damage and examine the nitrogen status. Everything that will be spotted it will be documented in a diary which allows farmers and growers to have a complete history available on their phones. The app is available for Android and IOS systems.
Read more:
See xarvio.com
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Good old days (not for everyone!!!): The Return to the Village by Julien Dupré (1895)
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‘Precision farming technology as a management tool’
Jacob van den Borne is one of the farmers who was nominated as one of the 10 most innovative arable farmers worldwide. He and his brother started with precision farming in 2006 and they have an eye for the best technology available.
See futurefarming.com
Yamaha invests in strawberry picking robot
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley led the Series A funding round for Advanced Farm Technologies (AFT), a developer of robotic farming equipment that includes the T-6 robotic strawberry harvester.
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What’s your preference – drones or satellites?
In the race for more economically efficient and practical agronomic data, would drones or satellites provide you with the larger benefit?
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Case IH launches AFS Connect Magnum 400 tractor
The new AFS Connect Magnum series tractor gives producers the freedom to adjust, manage, monitor and transfer data the way they want.
See futurefarming.com
Solentum and Pessl partner up in potato precision ag
Pessl Instruments and Solentum have closed a partnership agreement in precision agriculture for potato growers and the potato industry.
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Why technology could make animals obsolete, by Rob Leclerc (???? - GW)
Cars replaced horses, petroleum replaced whales, tractors replaced oxen, telecommunications replaced carrier pigeons, fermentation replaced cows and pigs for insulin production. And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. Food may be next.
See agfundernews.com
GROW accelerator debuts its 9 startups
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FarmWise raises $14.5m Series A to expand its weeding robot service
There are a number of robotics startups in the ag space targeting a variety of pain points throughout the supply chain and many of them have caught Silicon Valley’s eye. One of the biggest drivers of robotics innovation in agriculture is the serious labor challenge facing farmers including a shortage of workers as well as the increasing cost of labor in developed markets for the dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs that are crucial to food production. The need for labor solutions isn’t unique to the agriculture industry, but the business case may be the most appealing.
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Why Indiana is becoming a leader in agbioscience innovation
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The climate issue (The Economist - 2019/09/19)
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From one year to the next, you cannot feel the difference. As the decades stack up, though, the story becomes clear. The stripes on our cover represent the world’s average temperature in every year since the mid-19th century. Dark blue years are cooler and red ones warmer than the average in 1971-2000. The cumulative change jumps out. The world is about 1ºC hotter than when this newspaper was young.
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It is foolish to think all this can be done in ten years or so, as demanded by many activists and some American presidential hopefuls. But today’s efforts, which are too lax to keep the world from two or even three degrees of warming, can be vastly improved. Forcing firms to reveal their climate vulnerabilities will help increasingly worried investors allocate capital appropriately. A robust price on carbon could stimulate new forms of emission-cutting innovations that planners cannot yet imagine. Powerful as that tool is, though, the decarbonisation it brings will need to be accelerated through well-targeted regulations. Electorates should vote for both.
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The damage that climate change will end up doing depends on the human response over the next few decades. Many activists on the left cannot imagine today’s liberal democracies responding to the challenge on an adequate scale. They call for new limits to the pursuit of individual prosperity and sweeping government control over investment—strictures some of them would welcome under any circumstances. Meanwhile, on the right, some look away from the incipient disaster in an I’m-alright-Jack way and so ignore their duties to the bulk of humanity.
If the spirit of enterprise that first tapped the power of fossil fuels in the Industrial Revolution is to survive, the states in which it has most prospered must prove those attitudes wrong. They must be willing to transform the machinery of the world economy without giving up on the values out of which that economy was born. Some claim that capitalism’s love of growth inevitably pits it against a stable climate. This newspaper believes them wrong. But climate change could nonetheless be the death knell for economic freedom, along with much else. If capitalism is to hold its place, it must up its game.
CO2 emissions, gigatonnes by fuel and by region
Natural variations cannot produce decade warning in his scale
Past and present variations
The past, present and future of climate change
Climate issue: Replacing the fossil-fuel technology which is reshaping the climate remains a massive task.
See economist.com
Top tips on how farms can diversify successfully
Mark Suthern, Barclays National Head of Agriculture says if you haven’t yet diversified, then you’re likely to have at least considered it or are about to embark on a new project.
See farming.co.uk
France, Germany blast Facebook’s Libra, back public cryptocurrency
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What, me behave? Seriously?
As a child I saw Batman drive 200 mph,
Cinderella arrived after midnight,
Pinocchio told lies,
Aladdin was a thief,
Tarzan & Jane were almost naked,
Snow White lived in a house with 7 men,
Popeye smoked and had tattoos,
Pac Man ran around to digital music while eating pills that enhanced his performance,
Shaggy and Scooby were mystery solving hippies and always had the munchies, so we know what they were smoking.
And you expect me to behave.
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