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| Brennan, Donna C.. |
| The potential for improving irrigation scheduling decisions and adoption of more efficient irrigation systems is explored using a bioeconomic simulation model of lettuce production on the Gnangara Mound near Perth, Western Australia. Sandy soils with poor water and nutrient holding capacity are associated with declining marginal productivity of water at high water use, which would create an incentive to reduce water use and to adopt closer sprinkler spacing if farmers had correct information about the declining marginal productivity of water. Incorrect perceptions regarding water–yield relationships lead to over use of water by up to 50 per cent and reduce profits by $475 per crop hectare (12 per cent) in the short run, and remove the incentive to adopt... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Bioeconomic models; Horticulture; Irrigation; Technology adoption; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118335 |
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| Smith, Aaron D.; Goe, W. Richard; Kemey, Martin; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.. |
| This study uses data from a 2001 survey of Great Plains farmers to explore the adoption, usage patterns, and perceived benefits of computers and the Internet. Adoption results suggest that exposure to the technology through college, outside employment, friends, and family is ultimately more influential than farmer age and farm size. Notably, about half of those who use the Internet for farm-related business report zero economic benefits from it. Whether a farmer perceives that the Internet generates economic benefits depends primarily on how long the farmer has used the Internet for farm business and for what purposes. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Competitiveness; Net benefits; Technology adoption; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30918 |
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| Khantachavana, Sivalai V.; Just, David R.; Pushkarskaya, Helen N.. |
| Entrepreneurship means making discrete changes in livelihood activities that involve substantial risks to income. While the rewards may be substantial, transactions costs may make decisions irreversible. This paper draws a comparison between entrepreneurship and technology adoption. Adopting a new production technology also involves substantial risks. The economics of technology adoption is a well developed literature with many accepted and testable models. Most prominent are the theories of learning by using and learning by doing. We review the technology adoption literature, drawing out lessons for entrepreneurship research. We then apply an entrepreneurship as technology adoption model to a unique dataset collected during the tobacco buyout. The... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Entrepreneurship; Technology adoption; Tobacco buyout; Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61296 |
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| Paudel, Krishna P.; Pandit, Mahesh; Mishra, Ashok K.; Segarra, Eduardo. |
| We used the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey data collected from farmers in twelve U.S. states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) to understand why farmers do not adopt seemingly profitable precision farming technology. Farmers provided cost, time constraint, satisfaction with the current practice and other as reasons for not adopting precision farming technology. Results from a multinomial logit regression model indicated that manure application on field, more formal education, larger farm size, participation in conservation easement or agricultural easement generally decreases the probability of nonadoption of precision agriculture in cotton... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Precision agriculture; Technology adoption; Multinomial logit; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; C25; Q16. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104828 |
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| Caswell, Margriet; Fuglie, Keith O.; Ingram, Cassandra; Jans, Sharon; Kascak, Catherine. |
| The U.S. Department of Agriculture Area Studies Project was designed to characterize the extent of adoption of nutrient, pest, soil, and water management practices and to assess the factors that affect adoption for a wide range of management strategies across different natural resource regions. The project entailed the administration of a detailed field-level survey to farmers in 12 watersheds in the Nation to gather data on agricultural practices, input use, and natural resource characteristics associated with farming activities. The data were analyzed by the Economic Research Service using a consistent methodological approach with the full set of data to study the constraints associated with the adoption of micronutrients, N-testing, split nitrogen... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Technology adoption; Conservation; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33985 |
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| Watson, Susan; Segarra, Eduardo; Machado, Stephen; Bynum, Edsel; Archer, Thomas; Bronson, Kevin. |
| A dynamic optimization model is used to assess the profitability of precision and whole-field farming in corn production. Yield, on the average, was higher under whole-field farming practices, while net present value of returns was higher under precision farming, on the average, by 7.41% and 8.15%, respectively. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Precision farming; Mathematical optimization; Technology adoption; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/35053 |
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