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Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technology: A Duration Analysis
T. W. Griffin, E. A. Yeager
Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Precision agriculture technologies have been available for adoption and utilization at the farm level for several decades. Some technologies have been readily adopted while others were adopted more slowly. An analysis of 621 Kansas Farm Management Association (KFMA) farmer members provided insights regarding adoption, upgrading, and abandonment of technology. The likelihood that farms adopt specific technology given that other technology had been adopted are reported. The lag, in years, between a technology being commercially available and being adopted were evaluated using duration analysis. Results indicate some technologies were more readily adopted than others. Results are useful to farmers considering adoption, retailers in targeting farmers likely to adopt, and manufacturers in supply chain management.

Keyword: adoption, duration analysis, conditional probabilities, dis-adoption, obsolescence, profitability