| Affiliation: | (1) Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, The University of Sydney, McMillan Building A05, New South Wales, 2006, Australia;(2) Formerly Laboratory for Soil Science & Geology, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Post Box 37, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | Precision Agriculture is advancing but not as fast as predicted 5 years 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. |
