Erickson, Bruce (author) and Lowenberg-DeBoer, James (author)
Format:
Survey report
Publication Date:
2018-07-19
Published:
USA: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10589
Notes:
20 pages., Via online - Power Point presentation. Summarizes retail dealers' adoption of precision technologies in agriculture, 1997-2017., The CropLife/Purdue University precision dealer survey is the longest-running continuous survey of precision farming adoption. The 2017 survey is the 18th, conducted every year from 1997 to 2009, and then every other year following. Major sections of the survey include precision technologies used by the retailers within their business/on their equipment, the adoption rates of precision products and services offered by retailers to customers, the dealer’s estimation of the acres in their area where farmers are using precision practices, and questions about profitability, technology investment, and constraints to adoption.
The 2017 survey shows substantial increases in the adoption of practices that provide data for understanding and managing inter- and intra-field variability. Grid/zone soil sampling, which was being offered by 35 to 57% of dealers in a period stretching from 1999 to 2013, increased to 67% in 2015 and to 78% offering in 2017. Soil EC mapping increased from 19% in 2015 to 31% in 2017, and dealers offering UAV services from 19% to 30%. At the same time variable rate technology (VRT) seeding prescriptions, VRT lime application, and VRT fertilizer application services are up, yet VRT pesticide offerings are down. Seventy eight percent of dealers are using autoguidance for their custom application and 73% are using sprayer section controllers.
Research effort to refine and prioritize recommendations for future extension and pasture management activities, based on a survey among Tasmanian dairy farmers. Findings led to recommendations involving pasture management training, identifying motivating values of farmers, and requirements for ongoing on-farm support.
Coutts, Jeff (author), Roberts, Kate (author), Samson, Amy (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007-07
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27019
Notes:
Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-103sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/07-103.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 07-103. 21 pages.
Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, England.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2008-02-24
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27342
Notes:
2 pages., Survey among large-scale, commodity farmers. Includes a reference to findings that many farmers disapprove of past cuts in public funding for agricultural advisory services. "It is now complicated and expensive for farmers to get good advice."
