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EFITA newsletter / 907 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Bonjour, robots! A list of agri-robots whirring round FIRA in Toulouse next week
- France’s Naïo Technologies will have Oz, Dino and Ted.
- Switzerland’s ECOROBOTIX will be bringing this spindly-legged autonomous weeding agri-robot.
- From Germany, we’ll have Deepfield Robotics, a spin-off of Bosch.
- SONY CSL will be showcasing Robotics for Microfarm (ROMI).
- From Spain, picking grapes for the Rioja wines of the future, there’ll be VINESCOUT, a Horizon 2020 European research project.
- Over to electric self-driving tractors, look out for RHOBAN SYSTEM.
- For the poultry industry, Spain’s Faromatics.
- Also useful in the poultry world is France’s TIBOT.
- To misquote Hamlet, “something’s robotic in the state of Denmark.”
- Another from France is Instar Robotics.
- Flying in from the US will be Farmwise.
- More French connections here again with SITIA.
- Another home favourite in the wine industry is VITIBOT.
- Still watching all these? If so, come and meet MEROPY.
- A more familiar (inter) face below now with DUSSAU DISTRIBUTION.
See agfundernews.com
Governments must change rules of automation
It is inevitable that the food production will automate further. That is why governments need to adapt the rules for using robots to this new reality, that will lead to more productivity and more sustainability.
See futurefarming.com
Australian thingc Robotics starts trials with electric robot
Australian startup thingc Robotics expects to deliver its first commercial agricultural robot in 18 months. But first thingc is planning to start field trials with 3 to 5 units in about 6 months. The startup wants to offer farmers a fully electric robotic platform, on which they can use the tools of their choice.
See futurefarming.com
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MyEasyFarm
About the company: Created in 2017, MyEasyFarm aims to help the producer make the right decisions and be more efficient.
What is the product? Platform for data exchange between agricultural equipment and different data sources (e.g., sensors, satellites, and equipment).
How it works? Planning of operations in the office, aided by models, with the transmission of each task daily to the tractors and conductors via ISOBUS, allowing the proper control of all the details of the operations.
What solutions does it bring?
- Integrates different agricultural big data solutions and allows unified management, facilitating decision making, team management, and the use of agricultural material.
- Automation and improvement of traceability (e.g., use of real data).
- Ensures independence from machine manufacturers and their software/solution to handle the heterogeneity of their equipment fleet.
See precisionag.com
AgriHub Nigeria
Grow Your Food is an initiative of AgriHub Nigeria to get a million Nigerians to grow their own food at home and school by 2025. The objective of this initiative is to majorly boost food security in the country. The country is on the brink of a food crisis and we believe that with Nigerians growing our local foods at home, we will be able to create a sustainable buffer for any such issues
See AgriHub Nigeria
About BlockApps
BlockApps is a leading platform for agricultural innovation leveraging Blockchain technology. BlockApps has already spurred innovation in the agricultural industry through live, in-production product traceability applications and looks forward to helping stakeholders innovate other processes including:
- Crop insurance
- Post-harvest inventory management
- Food safety, transparency and trust
- Price volatility protection
- Land registration and transfer
- Precision agriculture
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Trimble launches new display and guidance controller
At Agritechnica Trimble introduced the new GFX-350 display and NAV-500 controller.
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21 autonomous tractor projects around the world
There are numerous projects under way across the world involving autonomous agricultural vehicles. The majority of these concern (small) robots and small to medium-sized tractors. One manufacturer dared to work on large tractors. We took a detailed look at 21 projects around the world.
See futurefarming.com
Claas partners up with The Climate Corporation
Claas announced a global partnership with The Climate Corporation, Bayer’s digital farming arm. The partnership is to provide farmers with seamless connectivity and unlimited storage of machine-generated agronomic data directly to their FieldView account.
See futurefarming.com
Good old days (???????): La becquée par Jean-François MILLET (vers 1860)
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BASF’s Xarvio partners with Arable to improve fungicide recs in lead
up to outcome-based pricing
While used predominantly in Europe, it is a free Scouting app, which identifies
crop disease from photos, is touted as one of the best available and has
been downloaded over two million times. Xarvio’s second offering Field
Manager enables growers to proactively manage their crop protection by
sending updates on their crop health status and getting feedback on when
to apply protection products and which areas in a field require more or
less.
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agfundernews.com
FarmlandFinder raises $3m seed round led by Cultivian to make farmland
sales fairer
FarmlandFinder’s web app allows users to view farmland properties for
sale at no charge. To access the premium version of the service, where
the goldmine of data awaits, users must pay $50. For that price, however,
FarmlandFinder will provide them with a wide variety of data about the
purchase as well as related farm properties that sold within the last
few years. This includes things like soil mapping, satellite imagery analysis,
yield-related data, and more.
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agfundernews.com
Foodvisor raises $4.5 million to track what you eat using AI by Romain
Dillet November 28, 2019
French startup Foodvisor has raised a $4.5 million funding round after
generating 2 million app downloads. Agrinnovation is leading the round
and various business angels are also participating.
In a few words, the startup uses deep learning to enable image recognition
to detect what you’re about to eat. It can detect the type of food and
it also tries to estimate the weight of each item.
See
techcrunch.com
Good old days (???????): Porteuses de gerbes par Julien Dupré
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Join SheepNet, an EU Network, to increase sheep productivity and flock profitability by knowledge exchange!
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On balance, some neonicotinoid pesticides could benefit bees: study
See phys.org
German farmers will ‘have to declare bankruptcy’ if CAP direct payments are capped by Florence Schulz
From 2021, the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is intended to be more closely linked to environmental requirements. But this could lead to large conventional farms facing existential threats.
See euractiv.com
Good old days (???????): Les foins par Julien Dupré
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Cold Winter
The Inuit asked their family leader in Autumn if the Winter was going to be cold or not.
Not really knowing an answer, the leader replies that the Winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.
Being a good leader, he then went to the next phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is this winter to be cold?"
The man on the phone responded, "This Winter is going to be quite cold indeed."
So the leader went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared.
A week later he called the National Weather Service again, "Is it going to be a very cold winter?" "Yes", the man replied, "it's going to be a very cold Winter."
So the leader goes back to his people and orders them to go and find every scrap of wood they can find. Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again:
"Are you absolutely sure that the Winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely," the man replies, "the Eskimos are collecting wood like crazy!"
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