{"id":258117,"date":"2026-05-28T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:35:09","slug":"new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"New Survey Finds Farmers More Open to Technology Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdtv.com\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected\">New Survey Finds Farmers More Open to Technology Than Expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdtv.com\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected\">https:\/\/www.rfdtv.com\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 16:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rfdtv.com\">www.rfdtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASHVILLE, TENN. (RFD NEWS) \u2014 A new farm survey is challenging the idea that producers are resistant to adopting new technology.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Bushel\u2019s State of the Farm report <\/span>found that many farmers are willing to experiment with new tools on their operations, especially when they can first test how the technology performs. Head of Public Relations and Communications, Julia Eberhart, says the survey showed producers across all age groups are willing to test new technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number one leading answer, which is the number one most experiential, is, \u2018I am willing to experiment with new technologies,\u2019\u201d Eberhart explains. \u201cOver 40% of these farmers, all ages, flat out saying, \u2018I\u2019m willing to experiment with new technologies.\u2019 And then you see the next 20% is, \u2018I wanna see others maybe have some success first before I start using it.\u2019 Farmers are not tech-averse. Everyone has this stereotype of tech-averse farmers, and year after year, our data proves that flat-out wrong, and it only continues to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eberhart says many producers still want to test technology on a smaller scale before making larger investments across their farms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m willing to try new things, but it can\u2019t cost me $30,000 to just try it and see if it works, right? There\u2019s gotta be some way to be able to try that out,\u201d she continues. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna try that on all my fields. I\u2019m gonna just try it on a small one, but I\u2019m willing to try. And then that, whatever it is, has to show value before doubling down again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that younger producers continue to play a larger role in farm decision-making, with nearly 40 percent of respondents now under 50.<\/p>\n<p>                           &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdtv.com\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Survey Finds Farmers More Open to Technology Than Expected https:\/\/www.rfdtv.com\/new-survey-finds-farmers-more-open-to-technology-than-expected Publish Date: 2026-05-28 16:18:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rfdtv.brightspotgocdn.com\/dims4\/default\/eaa3b62\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/720x404+0+1\/resize\/730x410!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.jwplayer.com%2Fv2%2Fmedia%2FJze7Oz5a%2Fthumbnails%2FsO746lpa.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258119,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258117\/revisions\/258119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}