TY - JOUR
T1 - Lessons to be learned in adoption of autonomous equipment for field crops
AU - Lowenberg-DeBoer, James
AU - Behrendt, Karl
AU - Ehlers, Melf Hinrich
AU - Dillon, Carl
AU - Gabriel, Andreas
AU - Huang, Iona Yuelu
AU - Kumwenda, Ian
AU - Mark, Tyler
AU - Meyer-Aurich, Andreas
AU - Milics, Gabor
AU - Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi
AU - Pedersen, Søren Marcus
AU - Shockley, Jordan
AU - Rose, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Autonomous equipment for crop production is on the verge of technical and economic feasibility, but government regulation may slow its adoption. Key regulatory issues include requirements for on-site human supervision, liability for autonomous machine error, and intellectual property in robotic learning. As an example of the impact of regulation on the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment, analysis from the United Kingdom suggests that requiring 100% on-site human supervision almost wipes out the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment for small and medium farms and increases the economies-of-scale advantage of larger farms.
AB - Autonomous equipment for crop production is on the verge of technical and economic feasibility, but government regulation may slow its adoption. Key regulatory issues include requirements for on-site human supervision, liability for autonomous machine error, and intellectual property in robotic learning. As an example of the impact of regulation on the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment, analysis from the United Kingdom suggests that requiring 100% on-site human supervision almost wipes out the economic benefits of autonomous crop equipment for small and medium farms and increases the economies-of-scale advantage of larger farms.
KW - autonomous
KW - economies of scale
KW - farm size
KW - regulation
KW - robot
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U2 - 10.1002/aepp.13177
DO - 10.1002/aepp.13177
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110028207
SN - 2040-5790
VL - 44
SP - 848
EP - 864
JO - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
JF - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
IS - 2
ER -