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Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volume 11, 2019

Precision Farming at the Nexus of Agricultural Production and the Environment

Abstract

Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a heterogeneous entity. Through targeted use of inputs, precision farming reduces waste, thereby cutting both private variable costs and the environmental costs such as those of agrichemical residuals. At present, large farms in developed countries are the main adopters of precision farming. But its potential environmental benefits can justify greater public and private sector incentives to encourage adoption, including in small-scale farming systems in developing countries. Technological developments and big data advances continue to make precision farming tools more connected, accurate, efficient, and widely applicable. Improvements in the technical infrastructure and the legal framework can expand access to precision farming and thereby its overall societal benefits.

Keyword(s): big data, digitalization, JEL D2, JEL O3, JEL Q1, JEL Q2, JEL Q5, precision agriculture, site-specific management, smart farming, sustainable intensification, technology adoption, variable rate technology
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