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Addicott, James E., Bath, UK

The Precision Farming

Revolution
Global Drivers of Local Agricultural Methods

Discusses the implications of precision agricultural systems being applied

across the globe
Offers critical insights into the global ‘digital revolution’ or ‘next green
revolution’ in agriculture, and farmers’ economic and social motivations for
investment in precision farming
Includes original interviews with farmers utilizing precision farming
technologies
Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the precision farming revolution in Somerset, England. It reveals the
1st ed. 2020, XII, 237 p. 12 reasons why local farmers invested in autonomous systems and traces the outcomes of
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illus., 8 illus. in color. adoption. It describes the local and global drivers of the fourth industrial revolution, from
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world population growth, climatic and ecological crises, profit driven farming and government
agri-tech grants, to the Space Race era. A new cultural method of intelligence, ideas and
thinking, new organisational and control powers, was precisely what precision farming offered
Printed book farmers and off-farm firms, who were able to remotely monitor and control natural
Hardcover environments and aspects of on-farm activities. As a result of local farmers opting into
precision farming systems the power dynamics of industrial agriculture were reorganised and
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this book will offer readers an understanding of how and why.
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