Abstract
Site-specific crop management or precision farming is a highly complex managementsystem for site-specific input application of lime, fertilizers and pesticides in arable farming. The Global Positioning System (GPS)is the backbone of the system. To conduct precision farming several technical systems and data interpretations are needed.
Precision farming is aiming to be used by large farms because of scale advantages. In reality adoption and benefits harvested are limited. We have analysed information from 28 experts and stakeholders, focus group meetings with 35 participants and a multinational farm survey with 204 responses.
There are problems both from the soft side of technology but also from the hardware and software which can explain diffusion speed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Contemporary Management of Innovation : Are We Asking the Right Questions? |
| Editors | Jon Sundbo, Andrea Gallina, Göran Serin, Jerome Davis |
| Number of pages | 268 |
| Place of Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamshire RG21 6XS |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Pages | 110-124 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1-4039967-2-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |