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Founded in 1907, ASABE comprises members in more than 100 countries. ASABE is a member-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing global well-being by addressing critical challenges in food security, water access, and environmental sustainability.

During crop harvests, time pressure often plays a key role because of maturity of the crop and/or because of changing weather conditions. Advanced technology can not only accelerate harvesting capacity; it also enhances operator fitness and safety.

Great progress and strong collaboration at the AEF Mid-Year Meetings, kindly hosted by Kubota at its new European Headquarters in Nieuw-Vennep, the Netherlands. Participants across all groups were warmly welcomed by Kubota Holdings Europe’s CEO, Mr. Shinichi Yamada, who emphasized the importance of AEF’s work in driving industry-wide standardization and innovation.

AEF has been presented on Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada (AMC) 2026 Unite Conference, an Annual Convention and Trade Show on June 10 and 11 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Marco Brück, co-leader of the AEF TRACK project team, informed the community that an important milestone had been reached few weeks ago.

The AEF Universal Terminal (UT) Conformance Test has been significantly enhanced, providing broader test coverage, improved traceability, and increased automation. The new test generation helps ensure that ISOBUS implementations can be validated more efficiently while keeping pace with the latest technological developments.

AEF is pleased to announce the availability of a completely redesigned test environment for the certification of ISOBUS functionality Minimum Control Function (MinCF). It was released with Conformance Test (CT) Version 2026R0. After being tested and approved by several AEF member companies, the new CANoe-based test environment is now ready for official certification activities.

Few years ago, the AEF has developed and integrated File Server Conformance Test. The test environment was originally integrated into the AEF CT with the expectation that it would be continuously maintained by the project team. Unfortunately, ongoing maintenance can no longer be ensured, and the project team is no longer active.

The AgIN Team came together for the 4th Face-2-Face meeting of the year, hosted by company Materna in Frankfurt mid of July 2026.

This article is the second in a series describing the AEF’s aim to improve interoperability with AgIN and explaining its collaboration with CEADS – the ‘Common European Agricultural Data Space’. It was written by Okan Turkes, Deputy Project Lead at AgIN. He is involved in the CEADS projects as part of AgIN. The main objective of CEADS is to develop a comprehensive system that connects data space initiatives across Europe.

The AEF Wireless In-field Communication (WIC) Project Team has released the latest version of the WIC Minimum Control Function (minCF), marking another milestone on the roadmap towards the official Version 1.0 planned for December 2027.

Dave Smart, team leader of the AEF High-Speed ISOBUS project team and a member of ISO-TC127/SC3/JWG16, has written the following article, which outlines the project’s scope and current status:

Across AEF, exciting work is underway in projects such as High-Speed ISOBUS (HSI), Wireless In-field Communication (WIC), the Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN), Autonomy (AUT), Task Controller Generation 2, INFO, and Tractor Implement Management (TIM). These initiatives are helping establish the standards that will enable the next generation of agricultural technology and interoperability.

These companies have recently joined the AEF.

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