Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27660
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Pages 82-95 in Bruce A. Babcock, Robert W. Fraser and Joseph N. Lekakis (eds.), Risk management and the environment: agriculture in perspective. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 204 pages.
Posted at: http://agecon.lib .umn.edu/cgi-bin/detailview.pl?paperid=17570, Examines the relationship between the adoption of diagnostic and application techniques of precision farming and sources of information available to farmers about precision farming.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C20078
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19 pages; from "Extending Extension; beyond traditional boundaries, methods and ways of thinking", APEN 2003 Forum, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, November 26-28, 2003
"The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different agriculture: a new paradigm with new beliefs about soils, plants, and environment, and farmers themselves as well as new crop production systems."
"The case study farmers appear to derive more value from information gathering technologies (e.g., yield monitors and mapping) than from variable rate application technologies."
