Editorial

The dichotomy between sustainability and productivity

The announced forthcoming reduced availability of some of the main agricultural commodities, also known as soft commodities, is generating tense situations on the markets. This is because soft commodities include those agricultural products…

Carbon market and agriculture

The debate on the EU agricultural policy in recent months has involved greenhouse gases (the infamous GHG, i.e. Green House Gas) and the contribution in terms of Carbon Sink (carbon storage) that agriculture…

Augmented reality

What we perceive of the world is revealed to us through interference. Let me explain. Light hits a leaf and we perceive it in its shape, color and also its morphology. If the…

Waiting for genome Editing

Everyone is aware that the planet does not have unlimited resources, but few operate in a way congruent to this observation. Among the few, alas, we do not count those who matter. If…

Equal, fair… namely ISO

Lorenzo Benvenuti In 1947 a group of delegates from 25 countries founded an international organization for standardization in Geneva and chose a Greek word to identify themselves, Ισως, that is ISO which means…

… you must run at least twice as fast as that!

The owner of a well-known manufacturer of equipment for soil tillage and sowing confides to me that this year his company expects to participate, directly, in seventy trade fairs. Most in Europe, many…

Machines and sustainability

Sustainable is the process that achieves the aim of production by minimizing the impact on the environment. In agriculture the reduction of impacts is pursued by reducing energy consumption, giving priority to renewable…

Electrified by the future

Anyone with passion or curiosity for the world of motors and cars, is witnessing today, maybe incredulous, maybe skeptical, the electric car revolution. Only two years ago nobody was expecting the speeding up…

Hunger for horticulture …

High specialization, high productivity, high standardization of the production. Nothing seems to be actually missing in the horticulture sector. Yet, maybe it’s not what it looks like. The path undertaken by this sector,…

An electric future

The use of the electric energy to drive devices assembled on agricultural machines provides some interesting opportunities for manufacturers. The most frequent applications concern systems whose reactivity must be very fast, in the…

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