Month: November 2014

  • Farmers could solve many of their problems and challenges if they just shared knowledge globally

    Farmers could solve many of their problems and challenges if they just shared knowledge globally

    Farmers might think they know more about what goes on inside their fence line than anyone else. But there may be a day when a number cruncher on the other side of the world can predict a farm’s performance just as well as the farmer, if not better. At least that’s the scenario that could…

  • Technology is racing forward

    Technology is racing forward

    Orchid growing with Google Glass and a robot that folds your laundry  Last October, Rabobank Gouwestreek organised an event entitled ‘New technologies: Google Glass’. Guest speakers Danny Mekić and Mike van Rijswijk told us all about the technological developments going on at the moment, and demonstrated Google’s flagship invention: Google Glass.  “We live in interesting…