TY - CPAPER AB - We analyzed data obtained from the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey of farmers in twelve states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) to identify reasons for adoption/nonadoption of precision farming technologies. Farmers provided cost, time constraint, satisfaction with the current practice and other as reasons for not adopting precision farming technology. Profit, environmental benefit and to be at the forefront of agricultural technology are main reasons for adopting precision farming technology. Results from a nested logit model indicated that formal education, farm size, and number of precision farming meeting attend by farmers have positive effect on adoption of PF technologies. Moreover, spatial yield variability increases probability of adopting precision farming technologies for profit reasons. AU - Pandit, Mahesh AU - Paudel, Krishna P. AU - Mishra, Ashok K. AU - Segarra, Eduardo DA - 2012 DA - 2012 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.125004 DO - doi ID - 125004 KW - Crop Production/Industries KW - Farm Management KW - Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies KW - adoption and nonadoption of technology KW - cotton KW - nested logit KW - precision farming L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125004/files/nested_main%20_1_.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125004/files/nested_main%20_1_.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125004/files/nested_main%20_1_.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125004/files/nested_main%20_1_.pdf N2 - We analyzed data obtained from the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey of farmers in twelve states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) to identify reasons for adoption/nonadoption of precision farming technologies. Farmers provided cost, time constraint, satisfaction with the current practice and other as reasons for not adopting precision farming technology. Profit, environmental benefit and to be at the forefront of agricultural technology are main reasons for adopting precision farming technology. Results from a nested logit model indicated that formal education, farm size, and number of precision farming meeting attend by farmers have positive effect on adoption of PF technologies. Moreover, spatial yield variability increases probability of adopting precision farming technologies for profit reasons. PY - 2012 PY - 2012 T1 - Adoption and Nonadoption of Precision Farming Technologies by Cotton Farmers TI - Adoption and Nonadoption of Precision Farming Technologies by Cotton Farmers UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125004/files/nested_main%20_1_.pdf Y1 - 2012 ER -