I-FARM University Learning Series — "Economics of Adopting Weeding Robots"
Oct 10, 2024 11:00 am
- Sponsor
- Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA), University of Illinois Agricultural Safety & Health Program, National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA), Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment (iSEE), College of ACES, farmdoc, and Illinois Extension
- Speaker
- Shadi Attallah, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, UIUC
- Registration
- Register here
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Shadi will examine the economic aspects of adopting weeding robots on farms. This session will cover how robot prices, corn prices, the robot weeding efficacy, and a farmer’s planning horizon affect how many robots to adopt and to what extend weeding robots can increase farm profitability and reduce weed resistance to herbicides.