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Hello to all the readers! First of all, thank you very much if you read this post, it means that you visit this blog more or less regularly =) That’s already a good thing! You are nearly 300 visitors to spend daily on this blog. For rather technical and niche topics that revolve around digital Read more about ASPEXIT BLOG DOSSIER – Consideration of a move to a paid mode[…]
Agricultural contractors (ETA – french acronym) and agricultural equipment cooperatives (CUMA – french acronym) are undoubtedly the two types of organizations most involved in agricultural equipment in the farming sector. While CUMA are generally seen as structures for sharing and pooling agricultural equipment, ETA are more commonly regarded as structures for outsourcing, subcontracting, or delegating Read more about Digital agriculture in agricultural contractors and agricultural equipment cooperatives[…]
What technologies for low-carbon, resilient and prosperous agriculture? With The Shift Project, we are releasing our final report, which complements the Agriculture report. Views on technology, which are perhaps even more pronounced when it comes to agriculture, can be very divergent. While it is clear that many agricultural technologies have led to significant developments (yield Read more about Which technologies are needed for low-carbon, resilient and prosperous agriculture?[…]
It’s a subject that crystallizes tensions: is cohabitation possible between agroecological systems, or those on the way to becoming so, and digital technologies? For some, these are two totally opposed worldviews, so different are the epistemological foundations and value systems of agroecology and digital technologies. For others, on the contrary, there’s no reason why digital Read more about Which digitalisation(s) to support the agroecological transition?[…]
Weeds, insects, pests, diseases! These bio-aggressors are the main subject of this blog entry. Once again, the panorama of digital technologies to support their management is particularly broad: fixed and on-board sensors, agro-meteorological models, more or less advanced decision-support tools, agri-equipment and robotics… These digital tools meet a variety of objectives: Monitor the territory (in Read more about Using digital technology to manage pests and diseases in agriculture[…]
Digital technologies are generally presented as a powerful lever for decarbonizing the agricultural sector, or even more broadly as tools to support agricultural transition(s), without always knowing what we’re going to put in them… A blind spot in this proposal, however, remains the carbon footprint of these digital tools themselves. Still barely mentioned in the Read more about Agritech’s Environmental footprint[…]
After a first generalized focus on carbon and a second on biodiversity, it looks like water will be the next guest on the podium. A United Nations conference on water was held in New York at the end of March 2023 (the last one was held 50 years ago) to mark World Water Day. The Read more about Water management and digital technologies in agriculture[…]
A white paper to classify digital tools in agriculture 🤔 How do you categorize digital technologies in agriculture? To tell you the truth, it’s a bit of a puzzle. Categorizing 10, 20 or even 50 tools – that’s still okay, we get by. When you start to get to 500, 1000 or even 1500, it’s Read more about Towards a classification of digital tools in agriculture[…]
After a previous report on interoperability and agricultural standards, I’m back with a new popularization work focused here on communication protocols in agriculture. This is an important subject where it is clear that few people really understand anything about it… If I talk to you about MQTT messaging protocol, communication via NB-IOT, Sigfox or LoRaWAN, Read more about Connected objects (IoT) and communication protocols in agriculture[…]
Everyone talks about weather stations, but it’s not easy to know where the market really stands. There are many station suppliers, the data sources are very varied, and the economic models associated with weather stations are of all kinds: sale of stations, station rentals, sale/rental to distributors, subscription to a station network, shared access to Read more about Connected weather stations in arboriculture[…]