Farmers' perception of precision technology: The case of autosteer adoption by cotton farmers

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 87, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-128

  D'Antoni, Jeremy M ^a   Mishra, Ashok K ^b   Joo, Hyunjeong ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autosteer; Farmers' perception; Input cost saving; MNL; Multinomial logit estimation; PA; Precision agriculture; RTK; SCPF; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

AUTOSTEER; INPUT COSTS; MNL; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RTK; SCPF; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

COTTON; POLYAMIDES; PROFITABILITY; TECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COTTON; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84862765664     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2012.05.017     Document Type: Article

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