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An Integrated Approach to Designing the Agriculture of the Future: Two parallel conferences: 4th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA) + 1st European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF), Berlin, Germany, 15-18 June 2003.

The 6th International Conference on PRECISION AGRICULTURE and Other Precision Resource Management, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 14-17 July 2002.

NJF seminar no. 336, Implementation of Precision Farming in Practical Agriculture, Skara, Sweden, 10-12 June 2002.

The Centre for Precision Farming's Precision Farming Research Day, Monday June 10 2002, KVL, Frederiksberg. Photos

Omron releases soil photospectrometer

IAgrE 2002 Annual Conference, Harper Adams University College, Shropshire, UK, 15 May 2002. The Precision in Farming Specialist Group's Session consisted of presentations by several members of the PF team from Cranfield University - Silsoe giving the key results of a 5 year field study to develop Management Guidelines for Precision Farming for cereal crops. The three presentations were:

	Introduction and Spatial Variability - John Taylor
	Crop Variation and Nitrogen Application - Gavin Wood
	Economic Benefits and Conclusions - Dick Godwin

pre agro Precision Agriculture Tage, 13-15 March, 2002, Gustav-Stresemann Institut, Bonn, Germany.

The 12th World Fertilizer Congress August 3-9, 2001, Beijing, China. Fertilization in the Third Millennium - Fertilizers, Food Security and Ecology. Jointly organized by The International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers and The Chinese Academy of Sciences

6th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRUIT, NUT, AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTION ENGINEERING. September 11-14, 2001Potsdam, Land Brandenburg, Germany

Third European Conference on Precision Agriculture
Montpellier, France, June 18-20, 2001  

England. The Royal Smithfield show 26-29 November. With over 60,000 sq. m. of covered exhibition space, Smithfield is Europe's leading business farming event in 2000 providing visitors with the opportunity to see the latest innovations from the leading tractor and machinery manufacturers.

England. The International Fertiliser Society has arranged an open Meeting in London on Tuesday 28th November with five significant papers on topics of interest.

USA. Crop Modeling for Environment-Specific Mgmt Dec 4-8, 2000 U of NE-Lincoln Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education

USA. Agtech 2000 conference, held in conjunction with the 2000 Vegetable Expo in Greensboro, NC Dec 11-13.

England. IN-FIELD MONITORING OF CROP AND SOIL SENSORS Organized by the SCI Agriculture and Environment group, 23 January 2001. Contact John Stafford.

USA. Washington State University Western Precision Ag Conference January 29-31, 2001 in Pasco, WA

USA. The Precision Agriculture Working Group (PAWG) will be meeting during the ASA/CSSA/SSSA meetings in Minneapolis at: the Minneapolis Convention Center on Wed Nov. 8, 5:00-6:30 pm in Room 101A. Precision Agriculture Center

International Conference on Engineering and Technological Sciences ICETS2000 October 11–13, 2000 Beijing, China has a Precision Ag session

Simon Blackmore's inaugural lecture.
'Precision Farming and Agricultural Engineering'
Friday 16th June 2000 at 13:00 in Auditorium 3-14, Thovaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen

AgEng 2000 2 - 7 July 2000, University of Warwick.  This conference is organized jointly by Silsoe Research Institute, the IAgrE and RASE

Agritechnica '99 includes a Precision Farming 'Special'
International DLG Exhibition for Agricultural Machinery
Hannover, from 9 to 13  November 1999 (Preview days: 7 and 8 November)
German Agricultural Society Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V.

AGROTEC'99 Barretos - São Paulo - Brasil (in conjunction with the IAgrE)
INSTITUTO BARRETOS DE TECNOLOGIA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGROPOLES AND AGRO-INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL PARKS Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil - 15 – 21 November 1999 Shopping Center Barretos

Second European Conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA) September 27-30, 1999 University of Bonn, Germany

The Potash & Phosphate Institute and Foundation for Agronomic Research will sponsor InfoAg 99 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (USA), August 9-11, 1999.  This is the 4th in a series of Information Agriculture Conferences, the previous 3 having been held in Urbana, Illinois. Contact Harold Reetz

2nd European Conference on Precision Agriculture Sunday 11 - Thursday 15 July 1999 Odense Congress Centre, Denmark. Try here for the temporary address

MEASURING TECHNIQUES AND DATA PROCESSING March 22th - 31th and  May 25th - 28th  1999 Organized for: NOVA University by:    Department of Agricultural Sciences, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark

The International Symposium MODEL-IT on the Application of Modelling as an Innovative Technology in the Agri-Food Chain. To be held from 29 November - 2 December 1998 Wageningen, The Netherlands

7th Annual Residential Conference of the Fertiliser Society "PRECISION AGRICULTURE - PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES" To be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, UK on 9-11 December 1998 (Full details from the Secretary at secretary@fertiliser-society.org or on the Society web site at http://www.fertiliser-society.org)

Precision Farming Workshop, covering international trends and aspects of research for PF in Japan. Omiya city Japan. October 29th 13:00. Contact Haruhiko Murase

Precision Farming Symposium at BRAIN (in Japanese) 30th October 10:00-17:00 Contact Sakae Shibusawa

Seminar on Precision Farming in Japan, U.S.A., and Europe. Sponsors: Robotics and Mechatronics Division of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Hokkaido Branch of Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery. Co-sponsors: Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Hokkaido University.  Hokkaido Technology Advancement Center November 2, 1998, 13:00 - 17:30 Hokkaido University Centennial Hall, Kita 8, Nishi 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo Contact Noboru Nuguchi

Introduction to Crop Modeling for Environment-Specific Management: Computer simulations for risk assessment and precision farming, November 9 to 13, 1998 Nebraska Center for Continuing Education UN-L East Campus, Lincoln, Nebraska Workshop. Web site, with online registration: Focus: -- International standards for storing weather, soil, plant and management data, and their use in testing crop models. -- Application of crop simulations to risk management and precision farming. Contact; Bob Caldwell