  The 1st National workshop on Smart Farming and Data Analytics took place at
Maynooth University in Ireland on June 12, 2019. The workshop included two
invited keynote presentations, invited talks and breakout group discussions.
The workshop attracted in the order of 50 participants, consisting of a mixture
of computer scientists, general scientists, farmers, farm advisors, and
agricultural business representatives. This allowed for lively discussion and
cross-fertilization of ideas. And showed the significant interest in the smart
farming domain, the many research challenges faced in the space and the
potential for data analytics and information retrieval here.
