Simulation Of Beef Cattle Production Systems And Its Use In Economic Analysis
Simulation Of Beef Cattle Production Systems And Its Use In Economic Analysis

Author: Thomas H Spreen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000239616

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Economic analysis of beef cattle production has been limited by the inability to fully describe the underlying production process. Except for confined feeding of cattle, beef cattle production is the process of growing cattle who consume forages. The animal and the forage possess attributes of both factors and products of production. The production of forage constitutes one production process, animal growth is another production process, and reproduction by female animals is a third production process. Cattle production involves all three processes in such a manner that each influences the outcome of the other. Each process is itself complex and analysis is further complicated when all three are considered simultaneously.

Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry
Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry

Author: Lluis M. Plà-Aragonés

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1493924834

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The scope of this book is Operations Research methods in Agriculture and a thorough discussion of derived applications in the Agri-food industry. The book summarizes current research and practice in this area and illustrates the development of useful approaches to deal with actual problems arising in the agriculture sector and the agri-food industry. This book is intended to collect in one volume high quality chapters on Methods and Applications in Agriculture and Agri-food industry considering both theoretical issues and application results. Methods applied to problems in agriculture and the agri-food industry include, but are not restricted to, the following themes: Dynamic programming Multi-criteria decision methods Markov decision processes Linear programming Stochastic programming Parameter estimation and knowledge acquisition Learning from data Simulation Descriptive and normative decision tree techniques, including: agent modelling and simulation, and state of the art surveys Each chapter includes some standard and traditional methodology but also some recent research advances. All the applications presented in the chapters have been inspired and motivated by the demands from the agriculture and food production areas.