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EFITA newsletter / 899 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Step into your future at About Future Farming
5 - 7 November 2019 - Wageningen (NL)
Misset International and Wageningen University & Research present About Future Farming, a 3-day event that brings together precision agriculture professionals from all over the world.
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Webinaire IoF2020
20 November 2019
IoF202020 a équipé plus de 100 exploitations agricoles dans toute l'Europe de capteurs et de logiciels pour évaluer et mesurer l'impact des solutions numériques au niveau des exploitations agricoles. Le 20 novembre, IoF2020 organise un webinaire pour les agriculteurs, les fournisseurs de services numériques, les investisseurs et les éducateurs dans le domaine des technologies agroalimentaires, pour présenter le concept de ferme test et d'entendre vos commentaires sur cette initiative. Le réseau de fermes d'essai est actuellement un concept soutenu par les projets Horizon 2020 IoF2020 et NEFERTITI.
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Good old days (for everybody?): Harvest Time by Leon Augustin Lhermitte
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Who owns farmer data? Exploring the rights and codes of conduct for transparent agricultural data sharing
There is a need to develop transparent data sharing codes of conduct, and balance the distribution of benefits between agricultural value chain actors
Voir CTA Blog
ShaYoFae, a mobile app, created in 2018 to enrich farmer knowledge and know-how (an splendid example of data sharing!)
Shayofae is a mobile application intended to enrich farmer knowledge and know-how by sharing and comparing.
It is for this purpose that ShaYoFae has been imagined and realized. It allows the sharing of agronomic information and thus accelerates the apprenticeship of the farming profession. It's sort of learning, in time, year after year, and in space, sharing experience and inspiring from the experience of others.
For farmers, it is the possibility of developing their expertise and their autonomy of training and decision-making more quickly.
It is also for consumers and civil society, to have a view on agricultural production by restoring the link between products, places and modes of production.
ShaYoFae is an application for Smartphone, easy to use in the field.
The user can situate his practices by comparing them with the information present on the map displayed on the screen: crops, sowing, variety, growth of crop... He sees what it is possible to do in relation with the experience of others: can I do otherwise, better?
A technical toolbox is backed by the application to propose indicators of growth or diagnosis of crop in order to share the most objective information.
ShaYoFae also opens a way to enhance and leverage the perspectives and potential of field testing by farmers.
ShaYoFae fills an indispensable need for agriculture by proposing a dynamic approach of action on the 3 pillars of the sustainability of the agricultural productions: on the economic part, by the improvement of its own competences, on the environmental part, by the high-speed diffusion of best practices and finally acting for the social responsibility of agriculture, making visible its activity and its use of land.
ShaYoFae implements innovative technologies: image analysis, biological systems modeling, comparison algorithms, sorting and selection of visible information.
The application is internationalized and is intended to be used wherever plant productions are present.
The digital sharing of experience is a revolution in progress for agriculture.
>>> Share Your Farming Experience
BetaDigitis was founded by Hervé Escriou. Agronomist, his experiences in agricultural development, agronomic research, computer science and data analysis have been condensed into the ShaYoFae application.
Hervé Escriou was awarded at the Agricultural Computer Show of the International Agricultural Show in Paris, for the realization of an intelligent assistant for the weeding of crops.
See Share Your Farming Experience
Contact: Hervé ESCRIOU
E-mail: herve.escriou(a)betadigitis.com
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The extraordinary opportunity in Asia agri-foodtech (Author: Michael Dean)
It can be common to hear people, particularly in the West, talk about Asia as if it’s one country — the same happens in less enlightened discussions about “Africa.” Asia is, of course, a region made up of many different countries, diverse both geographically and culturally. It’s home to the world’s two largest populations, China and India, and the region has over 500 million smallholder farmers and the fastest-growing middle class on the planet. Wealth is accruing in Asia faster than anywhere else and at a faster pace than ever before.
See agfundernews.com
Inspirational ideas: Olive groves and drones - science fiction turned reality: Andalusian Operational Group uses drones in olive farming to improve productivity and sustainability
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Ver asaja.com.es
L3Harris Geospatial Develops Automated Fence-Line Extraction Technique for Cadaster Updates
L3Harris Geospatial was hired as part of a pilot project in Queensland, Australia, to demonstrate that the automated extraction of fence lines from airborne LiDAR data and imagery is an effective method of enhancing the spatial accuracy of a digital cadaster database.
The project, which used ENVI and IDL software, showed that when the extraction process was automated it is accurate and significantly faster and more cost effective than manual techniques.
See harrisgeospatial.com
How to (effectively) prepare for the arrival of a robot on your farm
Welcoming a new agricultural machine raises many questions – its management, its adaptation to a specific environment, its profitability, its long-term efficiency… And this is all the more true when this machine is a robot! Proper preparation and the ability to deal with change are the key factors in order to successfully take this leap into the unknown.
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John Deere presents autonomous robot tractor
John Deere presented a new concept tractor during a dealer event in Spain. The tractor is autonomous, has an electric drivetrain, is equipped with tracks and articulated steering.
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FarmWise raises $ 14.5m for weeding robots
The San Francisco-based start-up FarmWise has raised $ 14.5 million for the development of weeding robots.
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Lemken iQblue connect for easy automation
Lemken launches iQblue connect, a retrofitting kit which converts existing technology into smart machines.
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Template plasmid integration in germline genome-edited cattle
We analyzed publicly available whole genome sequencing data from cattle which were germline genome-edited to introduce polledness. Our analysis discovered the unintended heterozygous integration of the plasmid and a second copy of the repair template sequence, at the target site. Our finding underscores the importance of employing screening methods suited to reliably detect the unintended integration of plasmids and multiple template copies.
See biorxiv.org
Many plants are naturally GMO, research finds
Though much of the controversy around genetically modified crops is driven by the belief that the process of moving genes from one species to another is “unnatural,” new research shows some 1 in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic.
Dozens of plants, including bananas, peanuts, Surinam cherries, hops, cranberries and tea, contain the Agrobacterium microbe — the very same bacterium that scientists typically use to create GM crops. The research follows on the heels of the 2015 discovery that sweet potatoes are naturally transgenic. Agrobacterium DNA also has been found in tobacco plants.
Voir allianceforscience.cornell.edu
No ‘magical’ alternative to glyphosate in the next 5 years, Bayer official says
In the next five years, no alternative to glyphosate is going to “magically” appear in the market, Dr Bob Reiter, a high-ranking official from Bayer, told EURACTIV.com, referring to the controversial herbicide that has been the subject of heated debates across Europe.
See euractiv.com
Boris Johnson, how does it feel?
Thanks to Brexit, for the first time in centuries Ireland has more power than it larger neighbor.
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British prime ministers are not used to coming to Ireland cap in hand, and Mr. Johnson left Ireland having achieved nothing. A few days after he had been compared to the son of Zeus, he chose instead to invoke as his hero the Incredible Hulk. Hulk “always escapes,” he reassured the British public. “The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.” We Irish could not resist a superior smirk.
Eight centuries after an English king invaded and subdued it, Ireland is no longer the dominated island. Commenting on Mr. Johnson’s September visit in The Irish Times, the author Fintan O’Toole wrote that for the first time since 1171, Ireland is now the more powerful nation. The Brexiteers, he wrote, approach Ireland “through a strange swamp of contradictory impulses: rage and envy, thwarted superiority and indulgent self-pity.”
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Mr. Johnson has tried to use the old British imperial tactic of “divide and conquer,” traipsing around Europe trying to find someone who will break ranks and blame the Irish for the impasse. Instead, the other 27 nations have bonded in solidarity with Ireland and have spoken as one of the need to uphold the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Ireland by, in part, avoiding a hard border. Today, when Mr. Varadkar says “we,” he means we, the European Union.
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See NYT
Good old days (for everybody?): The gleaners by Leon Augustin Lhermitte
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Irish Joke: Profit
Paddy O'Toole had been frequenting the same pub for decades.
One day he discovered there was a pub across town serving beer for a shilling less.
He told his friends he was switching pubs, and his friends said;
"Paddy, me lad! Don'tcha understand, the beer may be a shilling less, but the bus fare is ten shillings!".
Paddy was undeterred.
He replied, "Ah, me good friends, don'tcha worry about that. I'll just drink 'til I make a profit!
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