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How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence?
The vegan diet is low in – or, in some cases, entirely devoid of – several important brain nutrients. Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans' abilities to think?
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Emmanuel Macron, pilloried at home and abroad, is Europe’s best hope, by Simon Tisdall
As nations around the world fall to populist leaders, France’s president is busy seeking a lonely mandate.
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In a cynical modern world that prioritises national self-interest, disrespects individual rights, and fails to tackle rising inequality, digital dictatorships, and environmental degradation, the odds are stacked against him. Yet with his quaint, almost old-fashioned ideas of solidarity and human betterment, Macron may be Europe’s last, best hope.
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Good old days (?????): By the Wayside, by Ralph Hedley
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5G made waves at CES but has long road to relevance on-farm by Vonnie Estes
5G loomed large at CES 2020. “5G” was written in the sky Tuesday morning in Las Vegas as the show kicked off. The technology now has real-world applications and the nation’s carriers are building out their 5G networks as we speak. This fifth-generation cellular network is 10 times faster than 4G LTE. Instead of waiting five minutes to download a movie in 4G, it will take 30 seconds on 5G. In addition, to use on personal devices, 5G will have revolutionary industrial applications. Whether it’s used for vehicle-to-vehicle communication and autonomous driving, or smart appliances and smart cities, 5G is expected to usher in a host of connected devices and applications to take traffic lights, power grids, and more into the future.
3G let us text, 4G let us use Uber and stream Netflix, and 5G will give us machine-to-machine communication with no latency.
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5 Key Quotes from Crop Innovation in Business in Amsterdam (April 2019)
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What’s the role of technology in animal welfare? We ask McDonald’s Banks Baker
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Technology does play a role and it will continue to play a bigger and bigger role. These commitments are making us look further and further back in the supply chain, in many cases, to the production level. Ways that we can track, monitor, and validate some of the progress for those commitments in a commodity level supply chain need to be advanced. At the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit, I have an interesting project I will be highlighting. McDonald’s was the first global restaurant company to come out with an outcomes-based animal health and welfare strategy for broilers (meat chickens). This is opposed to just following a specific set of parameters or protocols about how our suppliers should raise broilers. We are going to measure the actual outcomes of welfare itself.
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AgBalance® - Improving sustainability performance in agriculture
Sustainability is an integral feature of modern farming. It is at the center of a farmer’s daily work and drives improvement efforts on the farm. BASF has developed an assessment tool called AgBalance® that allows farmers to review the sustainability contribution that their current farming operation makes.
See agriculture.basf.com 1
See agriculture.basf.com 2 (.pdf)
Kubota unveils autonomous tractor concept
Equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and electrification technology, the Kubota "X tractor" is a completely autonomous tractor that is to represent the future of farming.
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Satellite and yield data identify unprofitable acres
At a recent agricultural conference in Ontario, Canada American researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) identified how a combination of satellite imaging and accumulated yield data allows them to identify unprofitable field areas across millions of acres in the Midwestern United States.
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John Deere launches new ‘bolt-on’ application controller
The new John Deere application controller, available as a ‘bolt-on’ or ‘after-market’ kit and compatible with a host of existing machinery, enables enhanced Active Implement Guidance (AIG), Distance Trip and iGrade.
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Nanosatellites detect early-season nitrogen stress in corn
Scientists at the University of Illinois have shown that nanosatellites known as CubeSats can detect nitrogen stress early in the season, potentially giving farmers a chance to plan in-season nitrogen fertiliser applications and alleviate nutrient stress for crops.
See futurefarming.com
Standards needed for LED lighting in greenhouses
Recent advances in energy-efficient LED technology provide the horticultural industry with multiple lighting options. But growers can’t easily compare technologies and LED options because of a lack of independent data on how lamps perform.
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Good old days (?????): Harvest Time by Dawson Dawson-Watson
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SoilBio app to help carbon capture
SoilEssentials has teamed up with leading space industry engineers and soil biologists to launch a new app to help farmers cut their carbon emissions
The tool we have developed, SoilBio – part of our KORE app – is a soil metric that gives an absolute repeatable reading of the functional health of the soil. Based on 4 years work and nearly 1 million data points from soils in the UK it has real pedigree. The smart thing about SoilBio is that rather than trying to directly measure soil health it uses the organisms that live in the soil to reflect the environment that they have been inhabiting. That way it is more than just a snap-shot but instead takes into account the last few years of soil management.
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About SoilEssentials, a small business with big ambition
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New tool for assessing soil health could help link payments with ecosystem services
A UK farming technology company has teamed up with leading space industry engineers and soil biologists to create a new tool to accurately assess biodiversity and soil health on farms.
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US agriculture chief urges EU to listen to science, not fear-mongering NGOs
When it comes to food, EU policymakers should make science-based decisions if they want to help European their farmers tackle the “legitimate concerns” over sustainability, Sonny Perdue, the US State Secretary of Agriculture, said on Monday (27 January).
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Bayer considering stopping sales of glyphosate to private users
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Bayer welcomes US EPA’s reaffirmation that glyphosate is safe to use, not carcinogenic
Bayer said today that the U.S. EPA’s favorable conclusion about the safety of glyphosate in its Interim Registration Review Decision, based on the agency’s expert review over a 10-year period, reaffirms that the extensive body of science continues to support the safety of herbicides containing glyphosate and that this active ingredient is not carcinogenic.
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Soros accuses Facebook of conspiring to re-elect Trump
Speaking in Davos, billionaire and philanthropist George Soros accused Facebook of working for the re-election of US President Donald Trump, in a speech where he also targeted “would-be dictator” Matteo Salvini as one of the biggest threats to European democracies.
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Europeans to pass national digital tax by end 2020 if no OECD deal
Despite of the US threats to impose new tariffs, France, Italy, Spain and the UK said on Wednesday (22 July) that they would move ahead with their national digital tax if there is no agreement at the OECD level by the end of this year
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Good old days (?????): Bearing the harvest by Georges Laugée (French, 1853–1937)
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