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EFITA newsletter / 906 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Farming, Fast and Slow, by Adam Wolf
Kahneman simplified our many contradictory impulses by suggesting we have just two brains. We have a fast, instinctive brain that is effortless in making gut assessments (“System 1”) and a slow, methodical brain that can eventually calculate how to send a man to the moon, but only with a lot of concentration (“System 2”).
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‘Farmers must think before investing in digitisation’
Any type of technical advancement always involves extra costs. If these investments don’t pay off in the long term, digitisation is no more than an expensive hobby.
See futurefarming.com
Continental develops fully autonomous farm robot
Continental showed the Contadino implement carrier prototype at Agritechnica. The fully autonomous robot can be used for seeding, weeding, spraying, fertilising and monitoring.
See futurefarming.com
Wageningen University aims for an autonomous farm
Wageningen University hopes to create an autonomous farm. The aim behind the project is not only to demonstrate its technical feasibility, but also to involve farmers, the education sector and society in high-tech food production.
See futurefarming.com
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John Deere and Volocopter present heavy-lift drone for agriculture
John Deere and Volocopter introduced the first large drone adapted for agricultural use at Agritechnica.
See futurefarming.com
Steyr shows hybrid powered concept tractor
At the Agritechnica show, Steyr launched a hybrid powered concept tractor, that is to offer a glimpse into the future of farming.
See futurefarming.com
French start-up: BetaDigitis
>>> About the company
Created in 2018, BetaDigitis aims to play a role in the process of helping exchanges of information, proposing means and tools.
>>> What is the product?
Application of sharing of agronomic experiences between farmers.
>>> How it works?
Inserting the cultural practices carried out on the smartphone. And then compare their cultural practices, stage of development of cultures, and results with other producers to learn from their experiences.
>>> What solutions does it bring?
- Economic role: support for agricultural development and increase production through the acquisition of knowledge.
- Social roles: increased coexistence among farmers, increased visibility of farmers, and their agricultural practices with the consumer.
- Environmental role: quick and easy sharing of good practices.
See precisionag.com
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AgGateway:Enabling the transition to digital agriculture… maximizing efficiency and productivity
AgGateway is a non-profit consortium of businesses serving the agriculture industry. Our mission is to promote and enable the industry's transition to digital agriculture, and expand the use of information to maximize efficiency and productivity.
>>> Our long-term vision: AgGateway is the trusted leader in enabling digital agriculture.
AgGateway provides the trusted forum where resources are developed, global collaboration occurs and members are equipped so they can realize the benefits of digital agriculture, and the industry maximizes the power of information to operate profitably, safely and sustainably.
>>> Why AgGateway
Expanding eConnectivity is essential to many facets of modern ag production, including efficient use of manpower, strategic planning, business management, just-in-time inventory, traceability and sustainability (waste reduction, water management, resource allocation).
>>> AgGateway enables eConnectivity as a means to:
- improve business processes
- help deliver excellent customer service
- streamline the supply chain
- support greater productivity and sustainable agricultural practices.
>>> About AgGateway
AgGateway currently has more than 200 member companies working on eConnectivity activities within eight major segments:
- Ag Retail
- Allied Providers (systems & software developers and service providers)
- Crop Nutrition
- Crop Protection
- Grain & Feed
- Precision Agriculture
- Seed
- Specialty Chemical
Each segment forms a council that operates autonomously within the overall guidelines of AgGateway. The structure allows the councils to determine their own eBusiness priorities and activities. They are responsible for funding their own projects, and each council elects its own leadership (chair and vice-chair), and appoints a representative to the Operational Management Board.
>>> How We Do It
AgGateway is effective because it brings together people in a collaborative process, within and across agricultural sectors. Our working groups don’t just establish industry-wide solutions, but also implement them so that eConnectivity becomes a working reality.
See aggateway.org
Connecterra moves on from FitBit for cows to predictive intelligence, regenerative ag
Connecterra, a startup out of The Netherlands that we’re invested in, is using sensors, data and machine learning to improve core aspects of farm operations to become more efficient, more productive and more sustainable. And it’s developing at a great pace.
Connecterra launched its intelligent dairy farm assistant, Ida in 2017. Ida is based on a rugged sensor that’s fitted to cows on a collar and an app for farmers. It was dubbed by the media, (rather simplistically) as the ‘fitbit for cows’ but even then, it was already quite savvy. Using data analytics and machine learning, Ida can turn animal behavior data into predictive analytics and actionable recommendations instead of just giving farmers data points. The insights were initially focused on health and fertility and core productivity drivers for farms. The main difference was that farmers’ would provide feedback to Ida, which then learnt from them and adapted its behavior for the specific farm, farm goals, herd type and environment.
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By 2023, Connecterra aims to be monitoring 25 million dairy cows out of a possible 100 million managed by Connecterra’s industry partners. Agriculture is still lagging other industries digitally and most livestock farmers are not yet using technology to track and improve the health of their animals or to assist in their management and operational choices, so the potential for scale is huge.
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See agfundernews.com
Good old days (not for everybody!): Les bêcheurs par Jean-François MILLET
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Danone, Nestlé rank highest for reducing deforestation by focusing on regen ag, communities
Several international consumer goods companies are off track to achieve sustainable consumption and production by 2030, according to a new report from the CDP Consumer Deforestation Report called “No Woods for the Trees.” The report evaluated 22 companies according to scale and commodity use in the consumer goods sector including food manufacturers, personal and household goods makers, and fast food chains. The consumer-facing posture of these groups makes them highly susceptible to reputational risks from commodities-linked deforestation, while also facing operational risks from supply chain disruption.
Despite the net-zero deforestation target for 2020 set by the Board of the Consumer Goods Forum, only eight companies were found to be deploying comprehensive forest and land-use management practices. Danone, Nestlé, Unilever, and L’Oréal lead with strong governance of deforestation risk while Restaurant Brands International, which owns Burger King, Tyson Foods, and Kraft Heinz received some of the worst rankings in the report.
Among the eight most successful companies, landscape-style approaches and regenerative agriculture were common themes.
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See agfundernews.com
Alberta community declares agricultural disaster amid unsuccessful harvest
Troubles with harvesting crops have plagued farmers across the Prairies this year and now, one Alberta community is escalating the issue to an emergency.
The County of St. Paul has declared a state of agricultural disaster, saying that as of Nov. 26, 35 per cent of crops were still in the ground.
See globalnews.cav
What America Lost When It Lost the Bison
By migrating in huge herds, bison behave like a force of nature, engineering and intensifying waves of spring greenery that other grazers rely on.
See theatlantic.com
Good old days (not for everybody!): L’été, les glaneuses » par Jean-François MILLET (1853)
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An Irish man walks into a pub
The bartender asks him, "what'll you have?"
The man says, "Give me three pints of Guinness please."
So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone.
He then orders three more.
The bartender says, "Sir, I know you like them cold. You don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one."
The man says, "You don't understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we'd still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we're drinking together.
The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition.
Every week the man came in and ordered three beers.
Then one week he came in and ordered only two.
He drank them and then ordered two more.
The bartender said to him, "I know what your tradition is, and I'd just like to say that I'm sorry that one of your brothers died."
The man said, "Oh, me brothers are fine - I just quit drinking."
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