
Barriers to Precision Agriculture Adoption Across Canada and in the United States
By Nicholas Bannon, Sean Mitchell and Alfons Weersink Farm size, crop types, topography, climate, and labour use are only some of the differences between farming operations located in Ontario, the Prairies, and in the U.S.A. Midwest States. Surprisingly, despite these differences farmers in these regions face nearly identical barriers to further adoption of precision agriculture technologies. During the summer of 2019, the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economi