Diversity in agricultural technology adoption: How are automatic milking systems used and to what end?

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• 作者：Rebecca L. Schewe (1)
  Diana Stuart (2)
  
  1. Department of Sociology ; Syracuse University ; 426 Eggers Hall ; Syracuse ; NY ; 13244 ; USA
  2. Department of Sociology ; Michigan State University ; East Lansing ; MI ; 48824 ; USA
  
• 关键词：Technology ; Environment ; Labor ; Animal welfare ; Dairy farming ; Animal studies
• 刊名：Agriculture and Human Values
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：32
• 期：2
• 页码：199-213
• 全文大小：476 KB
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• 刊物主题：Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine; History; Evolutionary Biology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8366

文摘

Adoption of technology in agriculture can significantly reorganize production and relationships amongst humans, animals, technology, and the natural environment. However, the adoption of agricultural technology is not homogenous, and diversity in integration leads to a diversity of outcomes and impacts. In this study, we examine the adoption of automated milking systems (AMS) in small and midsize dairy farms in the US Midwest, the Netherlands, and Denmark. In contrast to technological determinism, we find significant variation amongst adopters in the implementation of AMS and corresponding variation in outcomes. Adopters have significant discretion in determining the use of AMS, which leads to a diversity of possible outcomes for family and non-family labor, human鈥揷ow relationships, animal welfare, the environment, and financial resiliency. Adoption and implementation are shaped by both structural factors, such as debt load and labor market variation, and by farmers鈥?individual personality traits and values, such as a willingness (or not) to release control to technology. Rather than uniform adoption and impacts of technology, we highlight the importance of context, the co-constitution of technology and users, and the diversity of technology adoption and its associated impacts.