The preparations for the AEF spring Plugfest, which will take place from May 7 to 9 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, are already in full swing.

The AEF presented at the “Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference” (AETC) from February 11 to 13, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, with a program very much in line with the agenda of the “American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers” (ASABE).  Benjamin Jefferson of DISTek Integration, Inc. offered a professional development course entitled “An introduction to ISOBUS for Engineers”. 

On Saturday February 23rd the third AXEMA Technical conference took place at the Parc des Expositions. The surrounding exhibition halls were busy with the final day of preparations for the SIMA show, whilst at the conference the 160 participants had the chance to follow 22 different lectures and 16 poster sessions. The contributions are not presented as oral lectures, but in the form of pictures, posters or display boards.

From February 24th thru the 28th the 78th edition of SIMA took place at the Parc des Expositions in Paris Nord Villepinte. This year there were 232,000 visitors from 140 different countries and almost 1800 exhibitors. Thanks to the close collaboration with AXEMA, the AEF were once again present on the AXEMA booth in the extremely central location of hall 5A.

J.Assy Agricultural specializes in technology solutions for agribusiness. They are one of Brazil’s largest investors in R & D in this industry.

Orion Tecnologia e Sistemas Agrícolas Ltda is an innovative Brazilian company that designs and manufactures special spraying implements for installing in third party planters.