Online from publisher., Author describes the race that is on "to assemble and prove a tool that can deliver precision data and logistics throughout beef production spaces," connecting producers with consumers.
Woodard, Josua D. (author), Sherrick, Bruce J. (author), Atwood, Deborah H. (author), Blair, Robert (author), Fogel, Greg (author), Goeser, Nicholas (author), Gold, Barry (author), Lewis, Josette (author), Mattson, Carl (author), Moseley, Jim (author), O'Mara, Collin (author), Piotti, John (author), Salas, Bill (author), Scarlett, Lynn (author), Duncanson, Kristin Weeks (author), and Yoder, Fred (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09927
8pgs, This paper presents a critical examination of smart farming. I follow other critical analyses in recognizing the centrality of innovation processes in generating smart farming products, services, arrangements, and problematic outcomes. I subsequently use insights from critical human geography scholarship on the significance of understanding topological transformations to move beyond interpretations that identify only a narrow range of smart farming problems, such as a lack of coordination or limited uptake by farmers. Instead, I examine a broader set of challenges produced by smart farming developments. The overriding concern, I argue, is that smart farming unfolds via the production of numerous ‘misconfigured innovations.’ Using insights from literature on responsible research and innovation I then probe the stakes of looking beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming and discuss how new technologies might come to play a role in producing emancipatory smart farming. I pay attention to research on the ‘internet of people,’ which paints a stark new picture of social life generally, and in particular how rural life might be computed and calculated according to new conceptualizations of sociality and spatiality.
