Flying over the farm: understanding drone adoption by Australian irrigators

Precision Agriculture - As part of a precision agricultural approach, drones have increasingly been employed within agriculture for more than a decade and are shown to provide many benefits....     

Farmers’ perception of precision technology: The case of autosteer adoption by cotton farmers

Precision agriculture and autosteer technology are, overall, profitable investments for farmers, as previous literature has established. However, what has not been investigated is whether or not farmers perceive these technologies as such. This research postulates that cotton farmers must see potential for higher profits as a result of adopting precision technologies in order to adopt it. Using the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey and multinomial logit model, this research investigates farmers’ perception of precision agriculture and how those perceptions impact adoption of the autosteer GPS guidance system. Autosteer adoption was found to be significant and positively related to the perceived future importance of precision agriculture as well as farmers’ ranking of input cost savings relative to other attributes of the autosteer GPS technology. Additionally, results show that the attributes of the cotton picker are also important factors in adoption of autosteer GPS technology.     

Smartphone adoption and use in agriculture: empirical evidence from Germany

Precision Agriculture - Smartphone technology is promising for the future development of agriculture, as it can facilitate and improve many operational procedures and can also be combined with...     

Farm adoption of embodied knowledge and information intensive precision agriculture technology bundles

Precision Agriculture - On-farm adoption of individual and groups of precision agriculture technologies has grown in the past 15 years. Based on a sample of 545 farm observations collected by the...     

Factors influencing the adoption of precision agricultural technologies: a review for policy implications

Increasing pressure for food security and sustainability as well as a need to halt environmental degradation has focused attention on increasing the efficient use of farm resources. One answer to aspects of that problem is the use of precision agricultural technologies (PATs). To facilitate their adoption, initiatives have been fostered in developed countries since the 1980s. Despite a low rate of adoption elsewhere, similar efforts in recent years have been initiated in developing countries. Given this, understanding those underlying factors that influence the adoption of PATs is vital. It is timely to review these factors and to draw policy implications from that review for future actions. This review, based on studies investigating the limited adoption of PATs in ??experienced?? countries, extrapolates their findings to explain why farmers have or have not adopted PATs. At the same time, this review summarizes the key insights for more effectively targeting ??new?? followers: e.g. it provides some answers to the question of who is more likely to adopt PATs. Additionally, the review points to the limitations of current research in the area and suggests a robust economic model or multidisciplinary approach be adopted for future investigation.     

Spatial analysis and mapping of banana crop properties: issues of the asynchronicity of the banana production and proposition of a statistical method to take it into account

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture for banana crops has been little investigated so far. The main difficulty to implement precision agriculture methods lies in the asynchronicity of this...     

Delineation of management zones with spatial data fusion and belief theory

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture, as part of modern agriculture, thrives on an enormously growing amount of information and data for processing and application. The spatial data used...     

关于数字农业的基本构想

在对现代农业基本特点分析的基础上，提出了“数字农业”的概念，并给出了数字农业的基本架构，分析了数字农业与精细农业、数字地球、信息农业、虚拟农业之间的关系。提出精细农业应该是以数字农业为基础，以高投入产出比为目的的农业，数字农业是精细农业发展的必由之路。数字农业是在数字地球的大背景下产生的，是数字地球的重要组成部分，依赖并受益于数字地球建设。数字农业概念的提出，有利于理顺目前数字地球、精细农业、信息农业等概念之间的关系，明确当前我国农业发展的具体目标，从而合理安排我国农业发展规划，避免资源浪费。数字农业的实施将使农业生产精细化、远程化、虚拟化、自动化成为可能，从而极大地解放生产力，实现我国农业生产质的飞跃。     

精准林业技术的设计与实践

为了阐明精准农业是农业现代化的重要标志之一,精准林业则是以精准农业思想为基础而产生的观点,该文主要介绍了精准农业和精准林业的特点,建立了精准农业的技术流程,设计了精准林业的技术路线.侧重讨论了精准林业与精准农业的相同点和差异,分析了实现精准农林业所要解决的关键问题.同时介绍了北京市小汤山精准林业示范工程和北京林业大学在精准林业方面的一些研究进展,展示了精准农林业技术的广阔发展前景.     

Status quo of adoption of precision agriculture enabling technologies in Swiss plant production

Precision Agriculture - This paper presents the state of application of Precision Agricultural enabling Technology (PAT) in Swiss farms as an example for small-scale, highly mechanised Central...     

Delineation of management zones and optimization of irrigation scheduling to improve irrigation water productivity and revenue in a farmland of Northwest China

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture has been increasingly practised in recent years. Under precision management, farmland is divided into several management zones to implement different...     

丘陵山地精准农业技术体系的分析与展望

精准农业技术是科技含量最高、集成综合性最强的现代农业生产管理技术之一。其核心思想是实时采集、处理空间差异。以地理信息系统、遥感和全球卫星定位系统为主的地理信息技术是精准农业技术体系的核心技术。本文在分析了丘陵山地精准农业五大技术环节构建丘陵山地精准农业技术体系、农田信息获取、农田信息管理和分析、决策分析、决策的田间实施基础上，对丘陵山地精准农业技术体系进行了分析，并提出地理信息技术在丘陵山地精准农业方面研究的主要内容和方向。     

Prediction of soil nutrient content via pXRF spectrometry and its spatial variation in a highly variable tropical area

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture provides detailed information on the spatial variability of soil properties, including nutrient content, allowing for local-specific decision making....     

Drivers and challenges of precision agriculture: a social media perspective

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture, which has existed for over four decades, ensures efficient use of agricultural resources for increased productivity and sustainability with the use of...     

精准农业的技术体系及其在我国的发展现状

精准农业是目前国际上农业研究与应用的热点领域,是农业科技革命的方向。介绍了精准农业的概念、技术体系、国内外研究与应用现状,提出了我国精准农业发展应用的对策。     

Precision agriculture technology adoption: a qualitative study of small-scale commercial “family farms” located in the North China Plain

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture (PA) technologies offer a potential solution to food security and environmental challenges but, will only be successful if adopted by farmers. Adoption...     

Future Directions of Precision Agriculture

Precision Agriculture is advancing but not as fast as predicted 5years ago. The development of proper decision-support systems for implementing precision decisions remains a major stumbling block to adoption. Other critical research issues are discussed, namely, insufficient recognition of temporal variation, lack of whole-farm focus, crop quality assessment methods, product tracking and environmental auditing. A generic research programme for precision agriculture is presented. A typology of agriculture countries is introduced and the potential of each type for precision agriculture discussed.Invited paper, 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, USA, July 2004.     

Production limits analysis of rain-fed maize on the basis of spatial variability of soil factors in North China

Precision Agriculture - In precision agriculture, suitable soil moisture and nutrient levels are important for crop production. Therefore, studying the spatial variability in soil moisture and...     

Correction to: A meta-analysis of factors driving the adoption of precision agriculture

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Understanding the adoption of smartphone apps in crop protection

Precision Agriculture - There is a steady increase in smartphone apps available to improve farmers’ decision making with respect to crop protection. While current studies have focused on...