Adoption of Cotton Precision Farming Technologies in Tennessee

This poster presents results from the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey specific to the state of Tennessee. A mail survey of 13,783 cotton producers in twelve southern U.S. states was conducted from February to March of 2009. Of the 637 cotton producers surveyed from the state of Tennessee, 105 provided valid responses for an overall response rate of 16.5%. The distribution of respondents by age and cotton acres planted closely matched figures reported in the 2007 USDA Agricultural Census. Results to be presented on the poster include producers' use of precision farming technologies (e.g. information gathering technologies, variable rate application technologies, GPS guidance), their perceptions about the value and future importance of precision farming technologies, their perceived benefits of precision farming technologies, and general farm characteristics. This poster is one in a series of seven posters that will present results from the 2009 Cotton Southern Precision Farming Survey.