PDA and Handheld GPS Adoption in Precision Cotton Production

Jonathan C. Walton, James Larson (jlarson2@utk.edu), Roland Roberts, Dayton Lambert, Burton English, Sherry Larkin (slarkin@ufl.edu) and Michele Marra

No 6839, 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This research analyzed the adoption of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) devices in cotton production. Analysis using a logit model found that younger farmers who used a crop consultant, remote-sensing, variable-rate fertilizer, and reported greater yield variability had a higher probability of adopting.

Keywords: Farm Management; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6839

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