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EFITA newsletter / 901 - 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)
See futurefarming.events/
>>> Demystifying robots for use by everyday farmers
Ole Green, CEO of Danish robotics company AgroIntelli, aims to demystify robots for use by everyday farmers. He feels that the single furrow horse plough still is one of the greatest agricultural machines ever invented. He explains why and tells about his mission to demystify robots for use by everyday farmers.
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>>> Bioeconomy will change the future of farming
Bioeconomy – a more clever use of resources – will change the way we farm and live, says Gottfried Pessl. It is all about climate change and what every individual can do to mitigate it. If we look at the recent discussions about the wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon and the heat waves we had in Europe this year, we get an idea of what this means.
See futurefarming.events
>>> French contractor lets farmers grow with precision ag
French contractor Pierre Henri-Hamon is one of the speakers at About Future Farming. His company Hamon Agriculture is an early adopter of precision farming technology and initiated a network of fellow French contractors in 2014. The technology is used to help farmers produce crops more efficient.
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Special Issue "IoT for Smart Food and Farming"
The high-impact journal 'Sensors' has planned a special issue on IoT for Smart Food and Farming. In recent decades, IoT has received a lot of attention in this domain and great advancements have been realized in both the academic and industrial worlds.
Yet, we believe that IoT is way from realizing its full potential in agriculture and the food industry. Therefore, this special issue will capture the latest innovations from fundamental scientific concepts to commercially robust IoT-inspired solutions relevant to the development, implementation, and adoption of IoT-based systems in food and farming.
We warmly invite you to submit papers on topics ranging from new sensors through to cloud-based computing, data-driven applications/services, and new business models.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2020.
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Contacts: Cor VERDOUW, Bedir TEKINERDOGAN, Sjaak WOLFERT, Guest Editors
E-mail: cor.verdouw(a)wur.nl
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French ag-tech startup: Biovitis
>>> About the company
Created in 2000, Biovitis is totally dedicated to the production of pure bacterial fungal biomasses.
>>> What is the product?
Agricultural biostimulants based on micro-organisms (complementary or substitutes for fertilizers and phytosanitary products).
>>> How it works?
Microorganisms increase the availability of mineral elements in the soil, improve soil physics, and stimulate vegetative growth and root growth.
>>> What solutions does it offer?
- Partial or total replacement of fertilizers (minimum 50% reduction) and conventional plant protection products.
- Stimulus to plant growth and protection against pathogens.
- Increasing the productive potential of soils: it reduces depletion, detoxifies soil contaminated by metals, and recovers degraded pastures.
See precisionag.com
POLIRURAL project: Future Oriented Collaborative Policy Development for Rural Areas and People (EU contribution: 6 M€)
Changes in rural areas, such as depopulation, land abandonment and the loss of biodiversity, may proceed very slowly yet are often irreversible.
Policymakers can steer these developments in order to reduce their negative impacts but this requires knowing whether current policy instruments are effective, who is benefiting from them and in what measure, what driving forces will be most influential and how they will affect people, planet, profits and land-use. To be truly useful, this knowledge must transcend siloed thinking and be the corollary of a joint effort uniting different actors under a common cause.
PoliRur will provide this knowledge by combining several key activities needed to design effective place-based, human-centric and forward-looking rural policies. These include actionable research that takes place within an inclusive learning environment where rural populations, researchers and policymakers come together to address common problems; an evaluation exercise that uses text mining to assess the perceived effectiveness of past or planned policy interventions; and a foresight study that tries to glean the development trajectory of agriculture and its allied sectors until 2040 using several scenarios in which the evolution of rural populations occupies a central place.
As a result of these activities, PoliRur will leave decision makers at different levels of government better equipped to tackle existing and emerging rural challenges, rural populations more empowered and rural areas more resilient.
See cordis.europa.eu
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Regen Ag Renegade: How an investment banker turned farmer is making regenerative ag happen in Germany
“Farming by far is our biggest instrument or measure to overcome 80% of the big problems in the world: health, in particular, inequality, culture, education, rural development, and obviously CO2 sequestration. That’s all immediately connected to farming,” he says. “I think we can be part of something incredibly great. If I solve problems here, maybe that can help people elsewhere solve other problems, as well.”
See agfundernews.com
AgriTech Capital invests in ag.supply, the German ‘Amazon of AgTech’
Local book stores have largely been blown out of the water by the rise of Amazon and online e-commerce; the agribusiness marketplace has not — despite years of wild-eyed prophesies warning of imminent digital disruption. Even as 2019 draws to a close, the buying and selling of farming products and inputs still often means complex, close personal ties between farmers, agronomists, and suppliers that can date back decades.
See agfundernews.com
Changing how you view electric tractors
Electric motors are not new, but they have yet to make inroads when it comes to heavy-duty farm work.
See futurefarming.com
Augmenta makes VRA (Variable Rate Application) fertilisation 100% autonomous
Augmenta has released the commercial version of their real-time variable rate application system powered by computer vision
See futurefarming.com
Brazilian agtech boom produces 1.125 start-ups
Brazil already has 1,125 agtech companies, according to the study “Radar Agtechs Brasil 2019”.
See futurefarming.com
Indian students build Smart Agricopter for spraying
Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras developed a Smart Agricopter for spraying.
See futurefarming.com
Laser-guided auto-steer system for Fendt 200
Fendt will show a laser-guided auto-steer system for the Fendt 200 V/F Vario at Agritechnica.
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Good old days (???): Haymaking by Camille Pissaro
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More accurate than CRISPR? Prime editing is the latest tool in the gene editing toolbox
Scientists have developed a new gene editing tool called prime editing, which has the potential to correct 89 per cent of the known human genetic variants that can cause disease, including those that cause sickle cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis.
See abc.net.au
Mining Manure for Phosphorus (USDA)
MAPHEX, the shorthand name for a mobile system that removes phosphorus from manure, is steps closer to offering dairy farmers greater flexibility in where, when, and how they use the nutrient to fertilize crops.
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As it now stands, the sheer volume of manure that a dairy farm's herds generate can make hauling the waste impractical or too costly. And only so much can be spread to on-site crops before excess phosphorus begins to run off into lakes, rivers, or other water bodies, imperiling water quality and aquatic life. Indeed, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates phosphorus runoff from land applications of manure accounts for around 66 percent of impaired water conditions in the nation's lakes and rivers.
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See usda.gov
Can Tech Hack World Hunger? It’s Trying, by Vanessa Bates Ramirez
Last week, Silicon Valley hosted an event that aims to tackle a truly critical global issue: hunger. The UN World Food Program held its first-ever Innovation Accelerator bootcamp at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Over the course of five days, specialists in innovation and global development worked with participating startups on their proposed innovations to combat hunger.
See singularityhub.com
Russia joins in global gene-editing bonanza (what are thinking our European green friends when USA, Russia, China... are trying to benefit from gene-editing technics? - GW)
A US$1.7-billion programme aims to develop 30 gene-edited plant and animal varieties in the next decade.
Voir nature.com
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Not a joke? Australian Broadcaster Takes Down The Spoiled Climate Protesting Students In Epic Fashion
Alan Jones, an Australian broadcaster for Sky News had some choice words for students taking part in the climate protests...
“It says this: To all the school kids going on strike for climate change, you’re the first generation who have required air conditioning in every room. You want TV in every room, and your classes are all computerized. You spend all day and night on electronic devices,” said Jones
“More than ever, you don’t walk or ride bikes to school,” he continued, “but you arrive in caravans of private cars that choke suburban roads and worsen rush hour traffic.”
“You’re the biggest consumer of manufactured goods ever, and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy,” said Jones. “Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
“How about this,” said Jones, “tell your teacher to turn off the air-con, walk or ride to school, switch off your devices and read a book, make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.”
“But none of this will happen because, the piece says, you’re selfish, badly educated, virtue-signaling little turds inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a noble cause while they indulge themselves in western luxury and unprecedented quality of life. The piece ends by saying wake up, grow up, and shut up until you’re sure of the facts before protesting.”
See redstate.com
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