The Whole Farm Model
Applying differential evolution to a whole-farm model to assist optimal strategic decision making
... 1. INTRODUCTION The central aim of this project was to improve dairy farmer’s strategic (long term) decisions by finding optimal farm systems. The process involved the integration of an economics component into an ...
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Whole Farm Income Insurance in a Canadian Context
... of whole farm income insurance on farm portfolio ...Manitoba farm model was used for crops grown, prices received, inputs purchased, and growing conditions including crop rotational ...
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A Northern Tablelands Whole-Farm Linear Program for Economic Evaluation of New Technologies at the Farm-Level
... representative farm in 2001, over various livestock and wool price assumptions These results suggest relatively similar profitability levels between these sheep and beef enterprises, over the range of sheep, wool ...
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Using alterative whole-farm modelling approaches to assess farm enterprise selection, risk and welfare
... mean-variance model the changes in farm enterprise levels and indirect utility were examined under conditions of risk aversion, budget constraints and gross margin ...mean-variance model was adopted ...
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Whole farm technical efficiency
... nonlinear model and distributional assumption, variation in technical efficiency scores over years, and consistency of signs of estimated coefficients over ...main model of ...time-variant model is ...
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The Farm Level Impacts of Replacing Current Farm Programs with a Whole Farm Revenue Program
... various whole farm revenue insurance programs. The FLIPSIM model uses a multivariate empirical probability distribution for simulating stochastic yields and prices, thus allowing projections to ...
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Choosing the best forage species for a dairy farm: The Whole-farm approach
... the model farm suggested that some farmers may not respond to increased prices with changes in forage ...base farm, significant increases in water prices may result in a response where they exit the ...
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The Impacts of Farm Size and Economic Risk on No-Till Rice Whole-Farm Profitability
... MIP model maximizes returns above operating and ownership expenses and is solved subject to acreage constraints on total cropland, owned cropland, and rented cropland ...The model includes operation ...
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Impacts of risk aversion on whole-farm management in Syria
... The model Past strict government controls requiring farmers to maintain particular crop mixes, with emphasis on wheat, have been relaxed recently, allowing new freedoms of private ...of farm enterprises, ...
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A Whole-Farm Profitability Analysis of Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems
... full-time farm workers working 8 hours each ...other farm management tasks are considered in the ...this model, though this technique has been used in other ...initial farm size is set to 80 ...
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A Whole- Farm Investment Analysis of Some Precision Agriculture Technologies
... Frequency distributions around the expected value of activity gross margins are produced. This information is used in discounted cash flow analysis to evaluate the return on capital and contribution to wealth (Net ...
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Improving whole farm and infield irrigation efficiencies using Irrimate tools
... balance model for a water storage are shown in Figure 2 and are similar for ...open farm water storage and distribution systems are evaporation and ...
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Assess whole-farm trade-offs and synergies for climate-smart agriculture
... Ruminant model and the trade- off analysis model for multi-dimensional impact assessment (TOA-MD) to assess how improved livestock management options affected the three pillars of CSA: increased ...
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Whole-farm modelling using different grazing-management strategies with diverse pastures within an irrigated dairy-farm system
... base model farm (average of North Canterbury region) using Farmax Dairy Pro to produce six different farm ...scenarios. Farm scenarios were ranked and compared by profit expressed as earnings ...
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The Transfer Efficiency Assessment of Individual Income-Based Whole Farm Support Programs
... prototype model for investigating farm level effects of stabilization ...The model queries the user for information regarding crops grown (through ...case farm study, the model can be ...
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Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions and design of mitigation options: A whole farm approach based on farm management data and mechanistic models
... PaSim model is not yet able to simulate such a range, we use it through different runs to describe in a best way semi-natural permanent grasslands, intensively managed permanent grasslands, recently sown ...
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Virginia Whole Farm Planning:
... to Whole Farm Planning Example Worksheet ...“Whole Farm Planning for Economic and Environmental Sustainability,” Kansas State University Research and Extension (Janke ...on farm this ...
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Designing a Whole Farm System
... your farm develops. For instance, a simple way to increase on‐farm populations of beneficial insects and wild bees is to make blossom happen all season ...
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Whole-Farm Approaches to a Safety Net
... and whole-farm revenue insurance may over- come some disadvantages of current farm-safety-net ...goals. Farm savings accounts in Canada and Australia have shown that both the lack of adequate ...
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The farm credit crisis: will it hurt the whole economy?
... 1 Farm Land Values and Farm Debt tf the failure of lan-ge numbers of far-ms~~~ffects both interest rates and general economic activity adversely, then assisting the agricultur’al sector of the economy may ...
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