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1. Farming revolution: precision agriculture and IoT for sustainable growth

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gopi, Arepalli (author), Sudha, L. R. (author), and Joseph, S. Iwin Thanakumar (author)
Format:: Book chapter
Publication Date:: 2025-01-24
Published:: Scrivener Publishing LLC
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 209 Document Number: D13544
Journal Title Details:: 299-319
Notes:: 21 pages, chapter 16 from "Smart Factories for Industry 5.0 Transformation", Sensor technologies enable data-driven, efficient, and sustainable precision agriculture. This initiative monitors, manages, and predicts plant diseases using sensors, cloud computing, and data analytics to improve crop health and productivity. Plant and environmental data is monitored by soil, humidity, temperature, and leaf wetness sensors. Machine learning algorithms discover illness outbreak trends and abnormalities in real-time data on a cloud platform. According to the study, a complete IoT infrastructure easily transfers data from field sensors to cloud servers and decision support tools to end-users. Edge computing preprocesses data and delivers only relevant data to the cloud, decreasing latency and bandwidth. This allows fast, accurate disease prediction models to warn farmers of new hazards for proactive management. The study also examines how alternate communication protocols increase data transfer in agricultural fields with poor circumstances. We also explore how geospatial and sensor data accurately map and quantify disease risk. Cloud-based data analytics improves sickness prediction, operational efficiency, and resource management, this study revealed. This integrated strategy reduces plant diseases, herbicides, and fertilizers, improving sustainability. The scalable, cost-effective answers to modern farming problems in this research support precision agriculture.

2. USDA unveils cutting-edge map that shows planted U.S. commodities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kim, Nancy (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2023-08-03
Published:: USA: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12926
Notes:: 3 pages

3. Impact of policy change on technical efficiency: evidence from small scale food crop farmers in Kellem Wollega, Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Terefe, Melkamu Kena (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-08
Published:: India: Agricultural Research Communication Centre
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12956
Journal Title:: Agricultural Science Digest
Journal Title Details:: V.43, Iss.4
Notes:: 6 pages, Background: An effort was made by the Ethiopian government to increase the level of technical efficiency of farmers across the country. However, due to climate change, smallholder farmers were facing challenges to increase technical efficiency in crop production. Adaptation to climate change is crucial to uphold and increase food crop productivity. This study analysis the impact of climate change adaptation and policy issues on food crop production efficiency in Kellem Wollega, Ethiopia. Methods: The data was gathered from 400 randomly selected food crop smallholder farmers. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used by including the climate change adaptation measures as explanatory variables in technical inefficiency. Simulation was made to adaption measures that can be influenced by the policy variables to see their impact on the level of technical efficiency. Result: The finding show that the use of adaptive practices (multiple crop type, improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation) had a significant and positive effect on technical efficiency whereas land fragmentation reduces efficiency level. Regarding simulation of policy variables the result show that the mean technical efficiency would increase with rising level of improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation practices. The results of the simulation of land fragmentation climate change adaptation variables show that the mean technical efficiency declines as a result of land fragmentation. Empirical results reveal that with appropriate policy intervention (climate change adaptation measures) the technical efficiency level of food crop farmers can be enhanced.

4. Opportunities and challenges for cover cropping in sustainable agriculture systems in southern australia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nordblom, Thomas (author), Gurusinghe, Saliya (author), Erbacher, Andrew (author), and Weston, Leslie A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-03-15
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12865
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N.3
Notes:: 17 pages, Southern Australian farming systems operate predominantly under Mediterranean climatic conditions, which limit the choice of cover crops suitable for enhancement of ground cover and soil moisture retention, erosion control, atmospheric soil nitrogen (N) fixation, and weed suppression between cash crop rotations. Given that the successful establishment of cover crops is climate-driven and also influenced by edaphic factors such as soil pH and salinity, there has been increased interest by southern Australian producers in identifying potential cover crop species well adapted to specific Australian farming systems, which provide vital ecosystem services and sustainable economic benefits through the improvement of soil properties. This review summarises recent findings on cover crop inclusion in diverse farming systems in southern Australia, including continuous and mixed broadacre cropping as well as viticulture and horticulture systems, to identify opportunities and limitations related to their use. Cover crop inclusion in viticulture and pasture systems with lower moisture stress was observed to benefit the subsequent cash crop through enhanced production potential. Long-term, multi-site field experimentation incorporating summer cover crops in winter crop rotations showed that cover crops enhanced ground cover and soil water infiltration in some locations across southern Australia while sometimes increasing winter crop yield, suggesting that soil type and regional climatic conditions greatly influenced the delivery of multiple cover crop benefits. Collectively, these studies have suggested a need for longer-term field evaluations using multiple cover crop species and investigations of termination options under varying environmental and soil conditions to better quantify the legacy effects of cover crops.

5. The Role of Smallholder Farming on Rural Household Dietary Diversity

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hlatshwayo, Simphiwe Innocentia (author), Slotow, Rob (author), and Ngidi, Mjabuliseni Simon Cloapas (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-02-28
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12863
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, N. 3
Notes:: 16 pages, The importance of smallholder farming is increasingly recognized in rural areas where increased crop productivity and market participation can effectively improve their dietary diversity and nutrition quality. However, rural households are still faced with severe food insecurity and malnutrition. The study sought to assess the role of smallholder farming in crop productivity and market access on rural household dietary diversity. The secondary data were collected using a quantitative research method, and 1520 participants were selected using a stratified random sampling technique. The descriptive results showed that cereals were the most (98%) consumed food group, while vegetables and fruits were the least consumed food groups, at 37% and 23%, respectively. The results from the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) showed that 57% of smallholder farmers consumed highly diverse diets (more or equal to six food groups), whereas 25% and 18% of smallholder farmers consumed medium dietary diversity (four to five food groups) and low diverse diets (less or equal to three food groups), respectively. The findings from the Conditional Mixed Process (CMP) and Poisson endogenous treatment effect models showed that household size, ownership of livestock, wealth index, and involvement in crop production positively influenced household dietary diversity. On the other hand, output and access to market information showed a negative effect. Social grants had contradicting effects: they had a negative impact on the HDDS received from crop productivity while they had a positive effect on the HDDS from market participation. Providing different ways smallholder farmers can use their funds effectively can help improve household dietary diversity and nutrition quality. The study recommended that more workshops and training be conducted that cover all the sustainable production systems that smallholder farmers can undertake to produce different food groups. These will raise awareness among smallholder farmers about the requirements for balanced diets for food and nutrition security.

6. A survey on deep learning and its impact on agriculture: challenges and opportunities

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Albahar, Marwan (author)
Format:: Review
Publication Date:: 2023-02-23
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12827
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 3
Notes:: 22 pages, The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent advancements in the use of deep learning (DL) in the agricultural sector. The author conducted a review of studies published between 2016 and 2022 to highlight the various applications of DL in agriculture, which include counting fruits, managing water, crop management, soil management, weed detection, seed classification, yield prediction, disease detection, and harvesting. The author found that DL’s ability to learn from large datasets has great promise for the transformation of the agriculture industry, but there are challenges, such as the difficulty of compiling datasets, the cost of computational power, and the shortage of DL experts. The author aimed to address these challenges by presenting his survey as a resource for future research and development regarding the use of DL in agriculture.

7. New solar panels allow farmers to see the light

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Nitta, Naoki (author)
Format:: Online Article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-16
Published:: United States: Modern Farmer Media
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12884
Journal Title:: Modern Farmer
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 11pgs, Researchers harness sunlight to harvest energy and food together, utilizing the full spectrum of light to improve outputs.

8. Exploring barriers to the adoption of internet of things-based precision agriculture practices

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hundal, Gaganpreet Singh (author), Laux, Chad Matthew (author), Buckmaster, Dennis (author), Sutton, Mathias J (author), and Langemeier, Michael (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-01-09
Published:: Switzerland: MDPI
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12835
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 13, Iss. 1
Notes:: 16 pages, The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen & phosphorus), farm machinery fuel costs and decreasing labor productivity leading to non-optimized usage of farm inputs. Literature describes how sustainable practices such as profitability (return on investments), operational cost reduction, hazardous waste reduction, delivery performance and overall productivity might be adopted in the context of precision agriculture technologies (variable rate irrigation, variable rate fertilization, cloud-based analytics, and telematics for farm machinery navigation). The literature review describes low adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based precision agriculture technologies, such as variable rate fertilizer (39%), variable rate pesticide (8%), variable rate irrigation (4%), cloud-based data analytics (21%) and telematics (10%) amongst Midwestern row crop producers. Barriers to the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture technologies cited in the literature include cost effectiveness, power requirements, wireless communication range, data latency, data scalability, data storage, data processing and data interoperability. Therefore, this study focused on exploring and understanding decision-making variables related to barriers through three focus group interview sessions conducted with eighteen (n = 18) subject matter experts (SME) in IoT- based precision agriculture practices. Dependency relationships described between cost, data latency, data scalability, power consumption, communication range, type of wireless communication and precision agriculture application is one of the main findings. The results might inform precision agriculture practitioners, producers and other stakeholders about variables related to technical and operational barriers for the adoption of IoT-based precision agriculture practices.

9. Poor plant health slashes earnings of an ag innovator and job creator in rural kentucky

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Carey, Liz (author)
Format:: online article
Publication Date:: 2022-12-27
Published:: United States: Daily Yonder, The
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12822
Journal Title:: Daily Yonder, The
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 4pgs, AppHarvest has expanded its controlled-environment agriculture from producing only tomatoes to include greens, berries, and cucumbers. Does a deep drop in revenue point to problems or just growing pains?

10. Does rice quality matter? understanding consumer preferences for rice in Nigeria

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Peterson-Wilhelm, Bailey (author), Nalley, Lawton Lanier (author), Durand-Morat, Alvaro (author), and Shew, Aaron (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-12-16
Published:: UK: Cambridge University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12866
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 54, Iss. 4
Notes:: 23 pages, Rice is a staple crop in Nigeria. Even with a push to increase domestic production, little is known about the functionality of Nigeria’s open bag markets and the preferences of consumers for specific rice attributes. Our study uses a hedonic price model to identify quality attribute preferences of consumers and potential market failures. Our results indicate that Nigerian consumers prefer rice with homogenous long slender kernels and a low presence of broken rice and are indifferent to chalkiness. The findings are useful as they can inform future strategies for rice breeders, domestic policy makers, and rice exporters.

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