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2. The rise of plant-based in U.S foodservice: sales and consumer insights for the plant-base meat category
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pierce, Ben (author) and Azoff, Marika (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 2023-08
- Published:
- USA: The Good Food Institute
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12942
- Notes:
- 20 pages, Report from Agri-Pulse accessed online via Agri-Marketing.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Social integration mechanisms to strengthen absorptive capacity in agricultural advisory service organisations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Stræte, Egil Petter (author), Hansen, Bjørn Gunnar (author), Ystad, Eystein (author), and Kvam, Gunn-Turid (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-09-03
- Published:
- UK: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12640
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 22pgs, To explore the structures and processes within agricultural advisory organisations that may enhance absorptive capacity (AC) and determine how organisations develop their AC.
6. Delivering on what the consumer wants key focus of GOPEX panel
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Karst, Tom (author)
- Format:
- News article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-02-03
- Published:
- The Packer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12846
- Notes:
- 3 pages
7. Wellness, nostalgia, innovation and new views of sustainability are amount the foods trends for 2022
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Food Insight (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-07
- Published:
- USA: International Food Information Council Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13008
- Notes:
- 3 pages
8. On the value of innovation and extension information: SCN-resistant soybean varieties
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Moschini, Giancarlo (author) and Lee, Seungki (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-02
- Published:
- United States of America: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12538
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Notes:
- 22 pages, This paper presents direct evidence on the impact of a specific extension program that is aimed at promoting the adoption of varieties resistant to the soybean cyst nematode (SCN), specifically the Iowa State University SCN-Resistant Soybean Variety Trials. We use two data sources: experimental data from these variety trials and a rich proprietary dataset on farmers’ seed purchases. Combining these data, we estimate the value of soybean cyst nematode-resistant variety availability, and the associated variety trials that provide information on their performance to farmers and seed companies. Given the scope and diffusion of this extension program, the focus of the analysis is on Iowa and northern Illinois over the period 2011–2016. Farmers’ seed choices are modeled in a discrete choice framework, specifically a one-level nested logit model. Using the estimated demand model, we find farmers’ marginal willingness to pay for soybean cyst nematode-resistant varieties, and for related extension information provided by the Iowa State University SCN-Resistant Soybean Variety Trials program, to be large. These results are confirmed by counterfactual analyses showing that, over the six-year period and region of the study, the total ex post welfare change associated with the existence of, and information about, SCN-resistant seeds is about $478 million. About one-third of this surplus is captured by seed suppliers, and two-thirds accrues to farmers.
9. Lessons learned: Rich Balvanz
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Balvanz, Rich (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-11-01
- Published:
- USA: National Association for Farm Broadcasters, Platte City, Missouri
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13094
- Notes:
- 3 pages
10. On-farm demonstration: enabling peer-to-peer learning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sutherland, Lee-Ann (author) and Marchand, Fleur (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-04
- Published:
- UK: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12644
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 27, N.5
- Notes:
- 19 pages, This special issue presents recent European Commission-funded research into on-farm demonstration, undertaken through the Horizon 2020 PLAID (Peer-to-peer learning: Accessing innovation through demonstration), AgriDemo-F2F (building an interactive agridemo-hub community: enhancing peer-to-peer learning), and NEFERTITI (Networking European Farms to Enhance Cross Fertilisation and Innovation Uptake through Demonstration) projects, jointly branded ‘FarmDemo’.
11. Research ID's keys to consumer acceptance of ag technology
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Press release
- Publication Date:
- 2021-09-29
- Published:
- USA: Food Industry Executive
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13121
12. Impact Assessment of Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture: Application of The Ambitec-TICs Method
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pinto, Daniela Maciel (author), De Oliveira, Priscilla (author), Minitti, André Fachini (author), Mendes, Angelo Mansur (author), Vilela, Gisele Freitas (author), Castro, Gustavo Spadotti Amaral (author), Nogueira, Lauro Rodrigues (author), Bogiani, Julio Cesar (author), Rocha, José Dilcio (author), Novaes, Renan Milagres Lage (author), de Barros, Inácio (author), and Rodrigues, Geraldo Stachetti (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08-30
- Published:
- Brazil: Association of Management
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12384
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Technology Management & Innovation
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 16 No. 2
- Notes:
- 12 pages., An extraordinary moment of agricultural modernization is currently underway due to innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In this process, management precepts are renewed, fostering significant gains in efficiency, productivity, and sustainable use of natural resources and the environment. The growing supply of ICTs and the extension of connectivity in rural areas, with their transforming roles in productive practices and economic relations, bring about questions regarding their impacts. These technologies include precision positioning systems and large volume databases, electronic sensors of site-specific production and environmental conditions, repositories of relational data, statistical and crop forecasting software, methodologies and processes; web-based information services, among others. The assessment of impacts focused on ICTs for agriculture needs innovative approaches, due to the peculiarities of their applications, the different scales of their socioenvironmental scopes and, at the same time, the verification of effectiveness of institutional investments on research, development, and innovation (RD&I). Based on these premises, the objectives of this work are to present a ‘module of impact indicators for Information and Communication Technologies (Ambitec-TICs)’, and assess its application to six typical technology adoption cases resulting from agricultural RD&I projects. The results detail critical analyses of the contributions of the proposed module for the registration, interpretation, and communication of impacts, with recommendations for technology transfer and accountability in institutional Social Balance documentation.
13. ‘You can't eat data’?: Moving beyond the misconfigured innovations of smart farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fraser, Alistair (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-17
- Published:
- Netherlands: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12812
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 91, Pages 200 - 207
- Notes:
- 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.
14. Mobile phone technology for increasing banana productivity among smallholder farmers in uganda
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tinzaara, William (author), Oyesigye, Elias (author), Bocquet, Christophe (author), Arkin, Jamie (author), and Johnson, Vincent (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-31
- Published:
- Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12364
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 13, N. 1
- Notes:
- 13 pages, This study aimed at assessing the level of mobile phone use in Ugandan agricultural extension, and to establish the extent to which mobile phone Viamo’s 3-2-1 service, hosted by Airtel Uganda, was being accessed and how the facility can be improved to boost banana productivity. The results of the study indicate that use of mobile phones for increased banana productivity were dependent on age, gender, household size, income and farming experience. Data collected show that the major information source by farmers was extension agents followed by phones and televisions. Focus group discussions revealed that most farmer participants owned phones (94.3%), had Airtel SIM cards and accessed Viamo service (65%). All respondents were aware of the Viamo service and majority got to know about the service through Airtel SMS notifications (83.3%). Farmers indicated that the four most sought after information elements for increasing banana productivity included material on weather forecasts, pest and disease control, fertilizers and their usage, and markets and their location. The study reveals information gaps with respect to pests and disease diagnosis and management, market prices, weather information, mulching and weeding in different terrains, and sources of clean banana planting material. It was concluded that the service is relevant and contributes to improving farmer knowledge on good banana farming practices. A further step will be to scale up use of the 3-2-1 service for agricultural purposes at country and regional levels.
15. Blunting EU Regulation 1107/2009: following a regulation into a system of agricultural innovation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Payne-Gifford, Sophie (author), Srinivasan, C.S. (author), and Dorward, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-06
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12040
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Notes:
- 21 pages, via Online Journal, This paper explores the role of regulation and legislation on influencing the development and diffusion of technologies and methods of crop production. To do this, the change in pesticide registration under European Regulation 1107/2009 ‘Placing Plant Protection Products on the Market’ was followed through the UK’s agricultural system of innovation. Fieldwork included: a series of interviews conducted with scientists, agronomists and industry organisations; a programme of visiting agricultural events; as well as sending an electronic survey to British potato growers. The innovation system is noted to have made the legislation less restrictive than originally proposed. The most notable system response to the legislation is the adjustment of agrochemical company pesticide discovery strategy and their expansion into biologically derived treatments. There have also been other innovation responses: agricultural seed companies have been breeding in pathogen resistance in their cultivars; agricultural consultancies are prepared to recommend pathogen-resistant seeds; scientists are using the change as justification for adopting their solutions; the agricultural levy boards funded research into off-label pesticide uses; and producers, potato growers in particular, have been seeking advice, but not changing their growing practices.
16. Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming: the contributions of the sociology of market agencements to alternative agri-food network analysis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Velly, Ronan Le (author) and Moraine, Marc (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-12-01
- Published:
- USA: Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12045
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 37, issue 4
- Notes:
- 14 pages, via Online Journal, The aim of this article is to show the relevance of the sociology of market agencements (an offshoot of actor–network theory) for studying the creation of alternative agri-food networks. The authors start with their finding that most research into alternative agri-food networks takes a strictly informative, cursory look at the conditions under which these networks are gradually created. They then explain how the sociology of market agencements analyzes the construction of innovative markets and how it can be used in agri-food studies. The relevance of this theoretical frame is shown based on an experiment aimed at creating a local trade scheme between manure from livestock farms and alfalfa grown by grain farmers. By using the concepts of the sociology of market agencements, the authors reveal the operations that are required to create an alternative agri-food network and underscore the difficulties that attend each one of these operations. This enables them to see the phenomena of lock-ins and sociotechnical transition in a new light.
17. A conversation about food systems change in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Malan, Naudé (author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10-14
- Published:
- International: Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12053
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 10, No. 1 2020
- Notes:
- 14 Pages, iZindaba Zokudla (IZ) is a multistakeholder engagement project that aims to create opportunities for urban agriculture in a sustainable food system in Johannesburg. IZ implements the Farmers’ Lab, a social lab used as a transitional mechanism in a larger transition to sustainability. To move the South African urban food system to an ecologically sound, economically productive, and socially equitable system, significant stakeholder integration is needed, and the iZindaba Zokudla Farmers’ Lab provides that. This reflective essay presents a history of the project (2013 until now) detailing the project’s creation of an ecosystem based on social labs that facilitate innovation in the food system. Emergent entrepreneurs and others use the social labs and their activities, as well as stakeholder engagement in their enterprise development, and these Labs have created opportunities for applied and other research in the university. This has brought innovation and change to agroecological practice in Johannesburg. This reflective essay article situates IZ within the broader evolutionary change in South Africa and considers how conversations about food lead to the creation of sustainable food systems.
18. Survey reports 90% of Impossible Burger buyers also purchase meat
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Survey report
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-28
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11968
- Notes:
- Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Survey by Chicago-based analytics company Numerator indicated that the majority of the plant-based Impossible Burger comes at the expense of animal-derived meat.
19. Keep grocery shopping personal, despite tech innovations
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sowder, Amy (author)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11965
- Journal Title:
- Packer
- Notes:
- Online from publication. 3 pages., "As we find evermore convenient ways to serve customers and work smarter, let's not lose the human touch. We all need it, no matter our age or location."
20. Perceptions of the fourth agricultural revolution: what’s in, what’s out, and what consequences are anticipated?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Barrett, Hannah (author) and Rose, David Christian (author)
- Format:
- Jounal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-30
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12811
- Journal Title:
- Sociologia Ruralis
- Journal Title Details:
- Volume 62, Issue 2, Pages 162 - 189
- Notes:
- 28pgs, Technological advancement is seen as one way of sustainably intensifying agriculture. Scholars argue that innovation needs to be responsible, but it is difficult to anticipate the consequences of the ‘fourth agricultural revolution’ without a clear sense of which technologies are included and excluded. The major aims of this article were to investigate which technologies are being associated with the fourth agricultural revolution, as well as to understand how this revolution is being perceived, whether positive or negative consequences are given equal attention, and what type of impacts are anticipated. To this end, we undertook a content analysis of UK media and policy documents alongside interviews of farmers and advisers. We found that the fourth agricultural revolution is associated with emergent, game-changing technologies, at least in media and policy documents. In these sources, the benefits to productivity and the environment were prioritised with less attention to social consequences, but impacts were overwhelmingly presented positively. Farmers and advisers experienced many benefits of technologies and some predicted higher-tech futures. It was clear, however, that technologies create a number of negative consequences. We reflect on these findings and provide advice to policy-makers about how to interrogate the benefits, opportunities, and risks afforded by agricultural technologies.