Fulfilling the production objectives of a grassland-based beef system requires a robust management strategy to secure the best practicable use of forage resources with regard to the cattle demand. To address the challenging issue of designing such strategies, this article describes the application of an ontology of agricultural production systems to the generic conceptual model SEDIVER, which s...

Abstract Salmon farming in Chile constitutes one of the nation's principal food exporting sectors. In the seawater stage, one of the most important in the farm production chain, salmon are cultivated in floating cages fitted with nets that hold the fish during the entire grow-out process. The maintenance of the cage nets is carried out at land-based facilities. This article reports on the creat...

in farming activities, various resources and inputs are utilized to produce agricultural products.. one of the most important goals of agricultural managers and programmers is to assess the optimal resource allocation for designing an appropriate cultivation pattern. mathematical programming is a common approach to achieve the optimal pattern. in this study, the two approaches of fuzzy de-novo ...

Leisure agriculture experiences continuous development. However, because most leisure farm areas are located in isolated or remote regions and the planning and construction of traffic networks is greatly restricted by terrain and geographical features, the roads in these areas are narrower than those in other regions. This study focuses on traffic flow forecasting using the advanced artificial ...

Wind power is sustainable, renewable and clean energy. There are abundant wind resources in Yunnan province, China. In recent years, wind power integration has developed rapidly in Yunnan province. With the first batch of the wind farm being built and a part of them going into production in Yunnan, the wind power resources will be large-scale developed and utilized in the future. Based on the w...

To improve the controllability of the electric power output and the economic performance of a large-scale wind farm, an auxiliary energy storage system is required. This paper deals with the rule of planning reasonable energy storage power and capacity based on the historical annual mean wind speed data, the probability density of the pulsating wind power output, and the warranted firm power pr...

Combining an energy storage system (ESS) with a wind farm is an effective way to increase the penetration rate of wind power. ESS sizing is an important part in wind farm planning nowadays. In this paper, a basic method for determining the optimal capacity of an ESS integrated with a wind power generator to meet the requirements of grid integration is presented. With the proposed method, the ne...

This paper presents a synthesis of the main theoretical and empirical contributions that analyse production choices of farm households living and operating in developing countries. The review is particularly concerned with recent micro-economic contributions that highlight the trade-off farm households typically face, between full-income risk and expected return, while making production decisio...

Dissemination and knowledge transfer remain a challenge in many fi elds of research. This is especially the case for the application of livestock waste management in developing countries where there an overwhelming volume of material is already available to the farm advisor and the real need is often the transfer of such knowledge to the local level. The object of this project is to package up ...

Animal health and production management practices used on sheep and beef cattle properties in south-eastern Australia have been shown in recent surveys, and by consultancy work undertaken by the University of Melbourne Mackinnon Project, to be suboptimal in several areas. Implementation of many advances from research in animal nutrition, production and health in the field has been poor. For exa...