Resilience of dairy farms measured through production plan adjustments

An economic study of dairy farms : a case study of dairy farms around shiraz

Production and feeding strategies for phosphorus management on dairy farms.

Long-term accumulation of soil phosphorus (P) is becoming a concern on some watersheds heavily populated with animal feeding facilities, including dairy farms. Management changes in crop production and feeding may help reduce the accumulation of excess P, but farm profitability must be maintained or improved to assure adoption of such changes. Whole-farm simulation was used to evaluate the long...

Optimization of production plan through simulation techniques

The production costs reduction in a highly competitive environment is a critical success factor. In particular, in fields where outsourcing is used frequently and the impact of the material costs is high, a significant cost reduction can be achieved making more efficient value chain. Moreover, the use of outsourcing is a way to adjust production capacity depending on demand. Therefore the coord...

Measurement of Technical Efficiency and Production Risk in Zabol Dairy Farms

Given entrepreneurs’ special role in the economic growth and development, many developed and developing countries are attempting to motivate more number of people who have entrepreneurial characteristics towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses in Ilam Province, Iran. In this researc...

Resilience and Dynamic Adjustments in Agroecosystems

The paper presents an investigation of agroecosystem dynamics with an application to yield data from England over the period 1885-2012. The analysis relies on a Threshold Quantile Autoregressive (TQAR) model. The model allows for lag effects to vary across quantiles of the distribution as well as with the values taken by the lagged variables. While it includes as special case the quantile autor...