16. August 2019
Decentralized IoT Ecosystem – Ambrosus presents itself with this slogan. CTO Stefan Meyer explains in an interview how blockchain data exchange can help to achieve maximum efficiency in the supply chain from the assembly line to the sales partner.
13. August 2019
How can and how must we eat in order to eat healthily and at the same time adapt our consumer behaviour to the drastically changing climatic conditions? What we consume must also be produced. Agriculture and food or fields and plates belong together. Dr Simone Frey, founder of Future of Nutrition, spoke with Farm & Food about romanticizing agriculture and creating better value behind food production.
18. July 2019
Maintaining and increasing crop yields is not only a desire of agriculture, but also makes an important contribution to species and climate protection, i.e. for all of us. At the beginning of the year, over 18 percent of the Bavarian population signed the petition for a referendum "Save the bees!” – more people voted than at any other referendum in the history of Bavaria.
24. June 2019
The "need" for meat we have brought on ourselves. Meat, or the everyday, cheap consumption of ham, sausages, roast & Co, has become a status symbol even before the car. A symbol of prosperity. After the two world wars the fifties brought new desires that had to be fulfilled on an everyday basis. Bratwurst and butter every day and cheap, please. In order to overcome this supposed need and its fulfilment (and to avert the climate crisis by the way), we need new vocabulary. Apart from the necessary research and development in the large areas of agriculture, there must be a rethink in society.
18. June 2019
In order to meet today‘s challenges in agriculture, you need to stay grounded - literally. Farm & Food spoke with Johanna Buntz and Dr. Thomas Gäbert about the diversity on german fields, drones and topsoils.
05. June 2019
We need to carefully use technologies like CRISPR, says Ruud van den Bulk, Wageningen University in an interview with Farm and Food 4.0. Companies and institutes are looking at Brussel these days. The next European Parliament is expected to make gene editing and connected research a little easier.
23. May 2019
Sustainability. Quality. Health. Profitability: Only a few of the key words you can basically find in every teaser referring to agricultural research, events or articles. They may seem overused when talking about tomorrow’s food production system. They are, however, almost redundant when we look at today’s agricultural stakeholders: farmers, innovators, start-ups, investors. Farm & Food spoke to one of those stakeholders at the F&A Next 2019, which took place in May in the Silicon Valley of agriculture and agtech-research: Wageningen University. Dan Harburg, Senior Director Innovation at indigo, was part of a debate regarding the question “How to create value for farmers?”.
07. March 2019
In 2013 Professor Mark Post presented the first burger from cell cultures. Its production cost 230,000 euros. Since then, numerous start-ups have been established in the field of meat cell culture. The latest addition to the family has been the presentation of the first in vitro steak with three-dimensional structure by the Israeli company Aleph Farms in December 2018. What may sound strange today could soon end up on your plate. A fitting topic for the Farm & Food 2019 conference. Didier Toubia, managing director and co-founder of ALEPH FARMS, presented the technology used, the timeline of the market launch and the planned market price of his Clean Meat. The technology for production has originally been used in human medicine.
20. February 2019
If you want to talk about the digital future in farming and food production, you have to look at the status quo: who does benefit and what do these benefits actually look like? Did past trends fulfill their promises? What do future challenges look like? Question like these made for the first panel at this year's Farm & Food 4.0. We need to talk about things like animal welfare, fertilizer, air pollution etc., but "we are on the wrong track", says Michael Horsch, founder and CEO at HORSCH Maschinen. In his opening statement he mentioned the challenges directed at tomorrow's agriculture.
09. January 2019
The startup BEEsharing connects beekeepers and producers via a digital platform for dusting services. How does this work, and why is it a good idea? This is what we wanted to know from co-founder and beekeeper Nils Gerber.
Arla Foods sets new standards in quality management and transparency, e.g. by implementing blockchain technology. We discussed this with VP Germany Markus Mühleisen, one of the speakers at Farm&Food 4.0.
28. November 2018
Dr. Josef Bosch is the Managing Director of FarmFacts GmbH, a subsidiary of BayWa. FarmFacts is a pioneer in digital farming and is a partner of the Farm&Food 4.0 Conference. We spoke with Dr. Josef Bosch about the opportunities and hurdles of digitalisation in agriculture.
