{"id":236685,"date":"2026-06-24T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results-iowa-capital-dispatch\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:35:54","slug":"survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results-iowa-capital-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results-iowa-capital-dispatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows farmers split on AI use in the fields, majority skeptical of results \u2022 Iowa Capital Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2026\/06\/24\/survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results\/\">Survey shows farmers split on AI use in the fields, majority skeptical of results \u2022 Iowa Capital Dispatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2026\/06\/24\/survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results\/\">https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/2026\/06\/24\/survey-shows-farmers-split-on-ai-use-in-the-fields-majority-skeptical-of-results\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 16:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"iowacapitaldispatch.com\">iowacapitaldispatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points from the article, summarized using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>* About half of farmers and ranchers regularly use AI tools for supporting operations, though only 48% use them on a weekly or more frequent basis.<br \/>\n* Despite usage, only 24% of farmers fully or somewhat trust AI recommendations regarding their farming activities.<br \/>\n* Forty-five percent of farmers expressed discomfort with AI influencing decision-making on their operations.<br \/>\n* Main concerns include the accuracy of AI recommendations, data ownership and privacy, model biases, and the potential replacement of human experience.<br \/>\n* To boost trust in AI, 62% of respondents cite the need for real-world farm results, 30% want the ability to override AI suggestions, and 27% desire transparent data sources.<br \/>\n* Large-scale operations, dairies, and farmers under 35 show higher rates of AI adoption, while only a small percentage of ag retailers trust or regularly use AI models.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey shows farmers split on AI use in the fields, majority skeptical of results \u2022&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/iowacapitaldispatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/51239967225_59f7bb6d4d_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236687,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236685\/revisions\/236687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}