Agricultural technology: what can environmentalists do?

Technological developments in agriculture greatly influence the character of agriculture, its environmental effects and social conditions for the agricultural community. Environmentalists usually combine a lack of knowledge about specific agricultural technologies with an “anti‐technological” attitude. In this paper the question of whether a more specific and efficient approach to technology is possible, is treated on the basis of a case‐study of the introduction of the milk tank into Dutch dairy‐farming.