What are the priority research questions for digital agriculture?

There is a need to identify key existing and emerging issues relevant digitalisation in agricultural production that would benefit from stronger evidence base help steer policy formulation. To address this, prioritisation exercise was undertaken priority research questions concerning digital agriculture the UK, but with view also informing international contexts. The uses an established effective participatory methodology for capturing ordering wide range of views. method involves identifying large number participants eliciting initial long list which reduced refined subsequent voting stages select top priorities by theme. Participants were selected using purposive sampling snowballing represent sectors, organisations, companies disciplines across UK. They each invited submit up 10 according certain criteria, this resulted 195 40 (largely England some representation Scotland Wales). Preliminary analysis clustering these through iterative identified seven themes as follows: data governance; management; enabling use technologies; understanding benefits uptake optimising technologies performance; impacts agriculture; new collaborative arrangements. Subsequent voting, online ranking participant workshop in-depth discussion, total 27 categorised into 15 gold, 7 silver 5 bronze, themes. significantly enrich extend previous agenda setting literature sources, provide perspectives. highlights interconnectedness questions, proposes two nexus future research: different dimensions value, social institutional arrangements support agriculture. These emphasise importance interdisciplinarity transdisciplinarity, tackle binary nature current analytical frames. insights are equally contexts outside This paper actions inform policy, not only instrumentally strengthening base, conceptually, prompt thinking. our knowledge has been previously applied topic.