On Nov 9th 2016 Agro IT project partners held a conference marking the end of a three-year AgroIT project. The conference titled “AgroIT Cloud Platform: The Enabler of Integrations for Digital Farming” held at EIMA International Agro Fair in Bologna, Italy, was a great success, with more than 50 people tuning in to the experts sharing experience from their fields.

We covered everything from weather forecasting in the future and digitally connected vineyards, to decision support systems for smart farming, vehicle tracking and new technologies, such as NB-IoT.

We all together came to a conclusion that we should embrace the technology that is available and harness its power to make a better future – for us and for the next generations – the buzz word is “seamless integration” to make life easier for our clients – THE FARMER.

We agreed that we should aim to make future innovations as simple and as user friendly as possible and leave farmers with a set of actionable information all in one place, instead of a spaghetti of data they have difficulty understanding, let alone utilizing. And most importantly, to help build a better connected world.

Thanks again to everybody who took the time to attend the conference and to stop by at our booth.

Some pictures of AgroIT stand at EIMA 2016.​

It is the largest outdoor agricultural exhibition in Europe. AGRO SHOW is the place to present the latest and most modern machines and equipment. But not only. This comprehensive exhibition, presented its offer manufacturers of fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, financial firms and other industries related to agriculture, so farmers arriving at the AGRO SHOW can see the full range of products and services for agriculture. AgroIT was present at the event on the stand of Industrial Institute of Agriculture Engineering (PIMR), presenting its software and sensor implementations as well as providing general information about the project.

​​Networking with farmers and agribusiness companies representatives for potential partnerships.​​​

​​Networking with farmers and agribusiness companies representatives.​

The fair is probably the strongest fair in Europe about fruit production. It gathers fruit producers, farmers, logistic and chemical companies, people from research institutes and universities. Promoting Trapview monitoring products and AgroIT consortium. The goal was to start increasing awareness of interested public (farmers, research institutions, corporate representatives, journalists) for AgroIT. This was done by distributing AgroIT leaflets to interested public, pointing them to AgroIT web page and presenting partners of consortium. The extent of presentation was done based on visitor background and interest shown.

AgriTechnica is the largest fair in the area of technologies for farming. AgroIT was presented on a stand of Datalab.

​International trade fair of equipment and products in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture and animal husbandry.

Agroport is an agricultiral fair and forum. This year it was organised in Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine.

AgroIT was presented by Rok Rupnik in Russian to about 100 participants.

Open-air exhibition, in the west​ of Romania

The largest agricultural event in N-E region of Romania, in the field

International trade fair of equipment and products in agriculture, horticulture, viticulture and animal husbandry

Developed as a unique platform for communication and networking for agriculture professionals AgriPlanta will be held on 30 hectares of farmland, being structured on multiple areas: Open-air exhibiting area, Machinery demonstrations, Trial fields area for the main agricultural crops .​

Agritech is an International Agricultural Technology Exhibition, which is held in Tel Aviv, Israel is one of the world’s most important exhibitions in the field of agricultural technologies. Pessl Instruments introduced AgroIT project and it's objectives to the audience.

The second largest agricultural fair in Romania and the most representative for Transylvania, with more than 25000 visitors.

​The biggest worldwide ICT fair.

Datalab had exhibition space on tis event and part of this space was dedicated to AgroIT projects. Whole exhibition space was designed and arranged to introduce modern IT technologies for farming. Andrej Mertelj, CEO, had a presentation of the use of Google Glass in farming. He was also a member of panel of round table with title "Inovations in farming"

​International Agriculture Fair in St. Gallen (CH). Datalab as exibitor presented PANTHEON Farming together with AgroIT project.

The fair is probably the strongest fair in Europe about fruit production. It gathers fruit producers, farmers, logistic and chemical companies, people from research institutes and universities. Promoting Trapview monitoring products and AgroIT consortium together with Pessl instruments. The goal was to start increasing awareness of interested public (farmers, research institutions, corporate representatives, journalists) for AgroIT. This was done by distributing AgroIT leaflets to interested public, pointing them to AgroIT web page and presenting partners of consortium. The extent of presentation was done based on visitor background and interest shown.

VFL were present at Agromek 2015 with the main purpose of presenting use of Google Glasses in agriculture​ and secondary – talk with farmers about their needs for ict and informing them about current VFL projects including AgroIT​​​

Exposition of Portuguese Agrifood sector. FreedomGrow visited the fair and presented AgroIT and its Plugthings Agro solution to several farmers, associations and ICT companies present on the fair.

​On thie fair Datalab had ​PFA AGroIT, GoogleGlass Datalab had exhibition space on this fair. Part of this space was dedicated to AgroIT project. Visitors showed great interest in Pantheon Farming product and Google Glass presentations.

Datalab had a stand and promo materials about Pantheon Farming and Agro IT project.

Press conference about AgroIT project and the vision of the future of agriculture as seen by Datalab and its partners. ​​

In August 2014, the largest event in the area of farming in Slovenia took place: Agra fair. On the fair, AgroIT project was presented also on press conference, not only on stand. Press release about The Future of Agriculture was sent also to a large number of media. Part of the stand was dedicated to promote modern technologies for farming: the use of Google Glasses, demonstration of the use of quad-copters, demonstration of use of robot to work on corn field, etc. This part of stand was named "Agri Future Park".​​

Datalab and the National Extension Agency organized press-conference where they signed Memorandum for cooperation and understanding for new project for farm accounting and record-keeping of agricultural measures (FA RKAM) of 100 farms.​​

Largest agricultural fair in Central Europe, agricultural equipment covering almost 70 thousand square meters, latest trends and agricultural technologies. Daalab presented Pantheon FArming together with Agro IT project.​​

Cebit was one of the key event where Datalab searched for new partners and members of Agro IT project.

​The conference is organized within the framework of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Warsaw Agricultural University and is designed to knowledge workers to discuss problems of economy, energy and environment in these sectors. It will be an opportunity to present the results of research and discussion. During the Conference will include presentations of papers related to the wider agricultural engineering, forestry and food industries.​

Kvægkongresis the major Danish event for dairy and cattle producers with close to 2.000 farmers, advisers, public administrators and policy makers participating.

Plantekongres is the major Danish event for plant producers with +2.000 farmers, advisers, public administrators and policy makers participating.

We had discussions about possible cooperation on cross-border projects in the field of advancement of IT use in agriculture.

The leading theme of the School is the analysis and modeling of empirical farming systems and their environment in order to improve the existing systems, and enable the development of new simulation research.​

The ICT 2015 event will comprise a number of parallel activities: A policy conference presenting the new Commission's policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); An interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; Many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, helping participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Funding opportunities: ICT 2015 will also be the place to gather information on the 2016 Work Programme of Horizon 2020.

Participation at the Conference EO Science - challenges and opportunities using satellite data in agriculture.Community consultation meeting on 12-14 Oct 2015 to explore the new challenges and opportunities for EO research created by the rapid advances in Information and Communications Technologies. Discussions how can AgroIT increase efficiency of farming through open tools and software, data-intensive science, virtual research environment, citizen science and crowdsourcing, advanced visualization.

Participation at the AgroIt pilot conference in Serbia for using SFMT.​ Discussions about further opportunities for cooperations and deatiled presentation of Sinergise Farm Management Tools.

​​​​​European Conference on Precision Agricultur ( ECPA ) ​ is held in Tel Aviv, Israel is about state of the art technologies and methodes regarding precision agriculture. Pessl instruments joined this important conference and integrated AgroIT project into the conference discussions as efficiency in farming being critical to better outcome.

​​​EFITA/WCCA/CIGR 2015,which take place in Poznan, Poland from June 29 to July 2, is a joint conference of three associations: European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA), International Network for Information Technology in Agriculture – World Congress on Computers in Agriculture (INFITA – WCCA) and International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering – Technical Section VII: Information Technology (CIGR VII). ​SEGES expect to present ​​"Wearables and the farmer​", which also will include FarmTracking (a part of SW for AgroIT platform)​

​Slovenia-Ukraine Business Forum:IT in Agriculture: Slovenian Experience and European Standards Development of farmers friendly IT solutions for support of CAP Grega Milcinski - CEO, Sinergise d.o.o.

Workshop with farmers and public institution representatives to discuss the news on AgroIT and gather opinions.

​SEGES were present at Kvægkongressen attended by 1.950 farmers, advisers, public administrators and policy makers, and discussed AgroIT products in talks with attendees.

SEGES were present at Plantekongres attended by +2.000 farmers, advisers, public administrators and policy makers and Mike Jørgensen mentioned AgroIT is his presentation about Mark-Onlie and FarmTracking - see presentation​

Scientifical Congres - attended around 400 specialists and policy makers Workshop with farmers - attended 68 farmers (of which Mr. Buzdugan Lucian, the bigest farmer in Romania, who administrate around 60.000 hectares, 3 farmers with around 3000 hectares and other medium farmers), policy makers and specialists.

International forum that bring together top-notch global specialists, in the sector of tourism and the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the Northeast region of Portugal.

On 5th of November FFRM and Datalab MK organized Conference “Managing a farm with information – communication technology (positives examples)”. This conference was part from national agricultural fair “Agrofood” and on this event participated 30 persons of witch 25 were farmers.

​In August 2014 AgroIT project was presented also on EAAE Congress in Ljubljana. Andrej Mertelj, CEO Datalab had a dedicated speech about eco impact of farming, demand for quality and organic food and political and financial environment to more then 1.000 participants on this event.​ Datalab was also presenting a poster regarding animal husbandry informaton workflow. We tried to present how to save time, minimze errors and get more accurate information by using ICT in agriculture.​

Presentation of Sinergise Farm Management Tools at Ministry for Agriculture, Azerbaijan. Discussion of the possibility to use AgroIT as the framework for LPIS.

Our work with FarmTracking was presented in the paper: Hansen, J.P., Hørning, A., Bligaard, J., Fog Hansen, N., 2014. FarmTracking - alerts and tracking in afarming context​ To stimulate the idea of using crowdsourcing for gathering requirements, crowdsourcing was highlighted in the paper: Hansen, J. P., Melby Jespersen, L., Brunori, G., Leck Jensen, A., Holst, K., Mathiesen, C., Halberg, N., Ankjær Rasmussen, I., 2014. ICT and social media as drivers of multi-actor innovation in agriculture​. ​ In AgroIT, our existing system Mark-Online is being further developed with amongst other thing storage handling. Mark-Online and upcoming improvements was presented in Bligaard, J., 2014. Mark Online, a full scale GIS‐based Danish national farm management information system​.

53rd IALB days – European Congress of Agricultural Advisors and 1st EUFRAS conference, will be held from 18th to 20th June 2014 at Hotel Well in Tuheljske Toplice, Croatia. The topic of this year’s congress is “The Role of Agricultural Advisory in new CAP Reform”. This is a topic relevant for all the member states of the European Union since the EU is embarking on a new era of promoting agriculture. Datalab presented Farm accounting with PANTHEON, together with AgroIT project.​

Rok Rupnik presented AgroIT project in one of the sections. It was obvious that project was interesting to the participants since there were many questions during and after the presentation. Conference description from the website: By bringing together experts from agribusiness, governmental organisations, research institutes, software and hardware companies and farms, the Smart AgriMatics 2014 Conference was perfect venue for these participants to exchange knowledge, experiences and even real software components that ultimately can contribute to overcome the challenges of Future Internet for the agri-food sector. We believe that Smart AgriMatics 2014 is of great interest to you and that you will leave the conference with new opportunities for business and research and a renewed agenda for the challenges of Future Internet for the Agri-Food sector.

​Presentation of SFMT at Ministry for Agriculture, Azerbaijan. AGRO IT was presented in a discussion of possibility to use AGROIT SFMT as the framework for LPIS.

2014 has been declared as the the International Year of Family Farming by the United Nations General Assembly. An overwhelming number of farms in the world are family farms and most farming is a family business. Datalab presented AgroIT project and PANTHEON Farming. Datalab had a stand, presentation and was participating in discussion regarding future of ICT in agriculture.

​Presentation of the AgroIT platform to Ministry of Agriculture of Serbia. ​Discussions on the possibility to use AgroIT platform as a basis for their Common Agriculture Policy platform, which is needed for joining of Serbia in EU. A decision was made on set-up of a pilot project in Becej, Serbia.

​Presentation of the AgroIT platform to Ministry of Agriculture of Slovakia. Discussions about possible cooperation on cross-border projects in the field of advancement of IT use in agriculture.

​AgroIT was presented as an integrated sollution for farm management.

​With International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis we had a discussion about further opportunities of cooperation.

​“Data+Need=Hack”, this is the idea of a hackathon that brings together like-minded people to develop, in a short time frame, novel solutions to problems presented to them. This is what we propose to do here around the theme “Agriculture and Food Safety”. We will use linked data sources and encourage the participants to use the tools, methodologies and datasets proposed, such as AGRIS Data and other FAO Data, Natural Europe, Trees for future, CIARD RING, AGROVOC, Agrotagger, etc., but not limited to them. The participants will ask themselves "How might we develop an application that will help agricultural researchers to discover the resources they need?" and work on finding answers using the datasets and tools given to them. As part of this event also discussion regarding standards for data exchange in Agriculture was held by Rok Rupnik and key workshop participants. AgroIT was shortly presented to discussion participants. After that fruitfull discussion regarding standards for data exchange in Agriculture​ was held.

​Discussions were made with Becej municipality representatives about demployment of AgroIT pilot project in the region.

​​Rok Rupnik presented AgroIT project to staff of University of Life Sciences.​​

​​​On the 17th of February 2015, FFRM, NEA and Datalab organized an opening event of the project FA&RKAM - 100 farms in Strumica as official start of the project 100 farms.​​

​​​Workshop with 20 representatives of associative forms from Iasi County, Romania, farmers and entrepreneurs who are interested in the development of associations and cooperatives.​​​

​​​​Meeting with Becej municipality mayor.A decision was made on set-up of a pilot project in Becej, Serbia. ​​​