Optimising an integrated crop-livestock farm using risk programming

Integrated crop-livestock farming systems

a substantial global increase in the demand for food of animal origin, while also aggravating the competition between crops and livestock (increasing cropping areas and reducing rangelands). The livestock revolution 1 is stretching the capacity of existing production, but it is also exacerbating environmental problems. Therefore, while it is necessary to satisfy consumer demand, improve nutriti...

Analysing livestock farm odour using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy approach

nt matter & 2007 IAgrE. temseng.2007.03.012 thor. [email protected] (S.X. In livestock farming, odour measurement and reduction are necessary for a cleaner environment, lower health risks to humans, and higher quality of livestock production. There have been many studies on modelling of livestock farm odour by analysing the chemical components in odorous air. It is suggested that the component ...

Optimising Plans Using Genetic Programming

Finding the shortest plan for a given planning problem is extremely hard. We present a domain independent approach for plan optimisation based on Genetic Programming. The algorithm is seeded with correct plans created by hand-encoded heuristic policy sets. The plans are very unlikely to be optimal but are created quickly. The suboptimal plans are then evolved using a generational algorithm towa...

Optimising Plans using Geneti Programming

Comparison of the programming models for considering risk in farm planning:application of utility-efficient programming