Focus on … the Digiferme® project in France

Learn more about how we develop and use new digital technologies on farm.
Digifermes : a laboratory for digital technologies, a paper from Delphine Bouttet and Pascaline Pierson at the PHLOEME scientific conference in January 2018.

The new summary report of ARVALIS’ activities is now available

ARVALIS' work in 24 examples : activity report 2016-2017

Opening of the pre-harversting phase of the IoF2020 Open Call

The pre-harvesting phase helps the participants to answer eventual questions they might have regarding the call modalities and provides guidance on the most suitable approach to describe their individual project idea.
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API-AGRO : technical institutes in start-up mode

The API-AGRO platform launched by the technical institutes (ACTA) now federates the main French stakeholders of the ecosystem in research and innovation around a shared data platform.
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Should data sharing be encouraged in agriculture ? Bruno Lauga, database manager at Arvalis 

Does biocontrol have a future in arable farming ? Claude Maumené, researcher at Arvalis

How to adapt to limited water resources ? Thibaud Deschamps, agronomist at ARVALIS

Are variable rate inputs suited to every situation ? Caroline Desbourdes, precision farming specialist at ARVALIS

In what way do sensors facilitate weed control management ? Benoît de Solan, sensor expert at ARVALIS

To what extent is it possible to reduce machinery costs ? Baptiste Dubois, engineer working in the ARVALIS Economics department

Should be the crops be managed differently to cope with climate change ? Philippe Gate, Scientific Director at ARVALIS

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ARVALIS participates in the European ReMIX project: Redesigning European cropping systems based on species MIXtures

The ReMIX project, funded with 5 million € by the EU in the frame of the Horizon 2020 programme, will produce new knowledge both for conventional and organic agricultural systems, through a 4-year collaborative research programme.
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ARVALIS participates in a new European project under INTERREG North West Europe aiming to preserve nutrients in agroecosystems

ReNu2Farm : Nutrient Recycling – from pilot production to farms and fields
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Norbert BENAMOU is the new General Manager of ARVALIS - Institut du vegetal

Anne-Claire VIAL, President of ARVALIS, has appointed Mr. Norbert BENAMOU to the general direction of the institute. He succeeds Jacques MATHIEU, who is retiring. This change in the direction of the Institute, presented to the Board of Directors last October, took effect on January 8, 2018.
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Anne-Claire VIAL succeeds Christophe TERRAIN as president of ARVALIS – Institut du végétal

Anne-Claire VIAL is a farmer in the South East of France, and hitherto vice-president of the institute.
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600 participants at the first PHLOEME Conference in Paris

Research and innovation are two of the drivers that will help the cereal sector to cope with the transition it must face. The 600 delegates attending the PHLOEME Conference held at the Cité des sciences in Paris on 24th and 25th January were able to talk and share their knowledge, with the common aim of facilitating the emergence of innovative solutions that will improve all the different aspects of cereal production systems performance. 
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Helping European agriculture to tackle water and nutrient limitations : new European project started

ARVALIS is participating in the European project SolACE funded by the Horizon 2020 programme. The project aims at generating solutions that combine novel crop varieties and management innovations to improve water and nutrient use efficiency.
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Smart-AKIS is the Thematic Network on Smart Farming funded by Horizon 2020 and backed up by EIP-AGRI

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Scales of corn stages

A new leaflet on Scales used for corn stages is now available !
Scale officially approved by Arvalis, BBCH scale and Scale of Iowa University are shown at a glance.

Kick-off meeting of the H2020 NEFERTITI project: Innovation in Demo Farms !

ARVALIS is part of the European project NEFERTITI which has been selected for a grant from the European Commission to improve and foster the exchange of knowledge with farmers and ag actors in order to boost innovation uptake. The Institute is specifically involved in the thematic network dedicated to arable crops and precision farming.
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18,000 participants at the last Culturales®

The 12th Culturales broke its own record by welcoming nearly 18,000 visitors on 14th and 15th June 2017 at the Ferme 112 site which has now become TERRALAB in Bétheny in the North-East of France.
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