Submit your abstract today for the 17th International Conference on Precision Agriculture and 11th Brazilian Congress on Precision and Digital Agriculture!

 

We invite you to submit an Oral or Poster abstract on the various conference topics.  Abstracts will be reviewed for suitability based on scientific content and clarity.  Abstracts meeting these criteria will be accepted to the Oral or Poster program at the conference. 

 

Abstracts must be submitted in English.  Abstract length must be in the range of 300-500 words with no figures, references or tables.  Authors of accepted abstracts will be entitled to present their research at the conference after payment of registration fees.  Please review the Author Instructions webpage for additional instructions and deadlines. 

 

 

Questions pertaining to abstract submissions should be addressed to abstracts@ispag.org. 

 

 

As we get ready to close the book on 2025, I’d like to send you all off with a positive feeling. A few weeks after returning from the ECPA meeting in Barcelona, I received an email from a young precision agriculture practitioner in southern California looking for more information on ISPA and precision agriculture in general. Little did I know, I was about to get a lesson in on farm experimentation and implementing precision practices from a high school student named Vikram Anand. Vikram became interested in precision agriculture, really before he knew there a term for it, and started down a path towards making his farm more productive and efficient. When I suggested he write something for a potential spot in this newsletter, I expected to never hear from him again. Following this introduction, you will find Vikram’s submission detailing exactly how he got started, came to find a potential solution, completed a cost/benefit analysis, and produced results that have already created value on his family’s farm. Happy holidays and enjoy!

 

    About 2 years ago, I took a look at the water bill of our 7-acre Temecula farm for the first time. Upon viewing the records for the past year and researching other farms, I was shocked at both how much money and water were spent on farms, even one as small as ours. As I was researching the most common methods of irrigation, I compared them with our farm and found a scary similarity: despite modern advancements, many farms utilize archaic methodologies that were never built for the volume of modern resource consumption. After pondering the implications of this trend, I concluded that an absurd amount of water must be wasted every single day by farms across the globe. While the exact figure isn’t known, it is generally agreed upon that a frightening figure of nearly 50% of farm water is wasted. In a world where approximately 70% of freshwater withdrawals stem from agricultural use (UNESCO), the potential consequences of this wastage are enormous. I realized that there had to be a solution that cuts down this wastage while still maintaining the farm yield. For answers, I decided to go to the primary source of information for every 21st-century teenager: Google...read the full article here. 
 

We would like to let you know that AGRITECH project is smoothly going on.  ISPA is an associated partner of the AGRITECH project - "Alliance for Innovative Learning Environment in Advanced Agriculture through Technology and Management" (ERASMUS-EDU-2024-PI-ALL-INNO), 

 

The project's second general meeting was organized in Gödöllő, Hungary, where the ISPA Country Representative from Romania, Marcel Ionescu, and the ISPA Country Representative from Hungary, Prof. Gabor Milics, have met. Both Country Representative are project partner/associated partner with their institutions (AgriCloud from Romania and MATE - Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sceinces), so this is a fruitful collaboration with ISPA connections. 
 

On 18th of November, 2025 Prof. Eiji Morimoto – ISPA Country Representative for Japan – has received Prof. Gabor Milics – ISPA Country Representative for Hungary – at KOBE University, Japan. The purpose of the visit was to enhance the friendship between the two representatives who last met at 15th ECPA conference in Barcelona. The meeting was very fruitful: in the first part Prof. Eiji Morimoto and Prof. Itoh Hiromichi have introduced the ongoing research work at Graduate School of Agricultural Science / Department of Agricultural Engineering and Socio-Economics, in the second part of the meeting experience on conference organization was exchanged as Prof. Milics has been organizing 13th ECPA in Budapest, 2021, and Prof. Morimoto will be the conference chair of 12th ACPA (https://smartconf.jp/content/acpa12/). 
 

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• Assistant Professor in Horticulture - Department of Botany and Plant Sciences - University of California, Riverside
• Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.) position in Precision Water Management - University of Missouri-Columbia

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