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Operational Research in Agriculture

Review and Position papers, Viewpoints, and Editorials

• Application of operations research in agriculture decision making – Springer
  Z. Zhang and C. Wang, Cluster analysis and optimization model of the structural distribution of aquatic industry in Huantai county, J. Qufu Teacher’s University 1(1986).   Z. Zhang, Present situations and prospects on the structure of agriculture and animal husbandry optimized by system engineering, J. Qufu Teacher’s University 4(1986).   A survey is given of applications of operations research ...
• Operations Research Models and the Management of Agricultural and Forestry Resources: A Review and Comparison
  Operations Research Models and the Management of Agricultural and Forestry Resources: A Review and Comparison Andrés Weintraub, Carlos Romero, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Chile, Avenida República 701, Santiago, Chile Departamento de Economía y Gestión Forestal, ETS Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain Published Online: October 1, 2006 Page Range: 446 ...
• A perspective on operational research prospects for agriculture : Journal of the Operational Research Society : Palgrave Macmillan
  #JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL #RESEARCH #SOCIETY | GENERAL PAPER A perspective on operational research prospects for agriculture Lluís M Plà Daniel L Sandars Andrew J Higgins Affiliations Corresponding author This paper discusses the future of operational research (OR) for the agricultural industries in a broad sense, including horticulture and viticulture during a period of increased pressure on natural resources. The authors use ...
• The Impact of Operational Research on Agriculture
  The Impact of Operational Research on Agriculture E. D. Sargent The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 31, No. 6 (Jun., 1980), pp. 477-483 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals on behalf of theOperational Research Society DOI: 10.2307/2580821 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2580821 Page Count: 7 Abstract The paper shows that agriculture is one of the United Kingdom’s largest industries. It would therefore be expected that ...
• 50 Years of Applying OR to Agriculture in Britain
  I helped my boss Eric Audsley produce this paper (link) for the OR Society 50 conference in York 2008.  Luis Pla and I also wrote a related paper on the future prospects that made it to press at the second attempt with help from Andrew Higgins.
• An engineering approach for sustainable systems
  This #seminal #review paper summed up much of the thinking and research that I had been involved with for around a decade as a research scientist at the former Silsoe Research Institute at #Wrest Park Bedfordshire. (Wrest Park is a fabulous Stately home and was a gorgeous setting for UKs public sector agricultural engineering institute) In many ...