Technical and Economic Models to Support Heifer Management Decisions: Basic Concepts

Technical and economic models to support heifer management decisions: basic concepts.

To maximize herd profits, dairy farmers are faced with the complex dilemma of minimizing costs that are associated with rearing heifers while ensuring or enhancing lifetime economic productivity. Decisions about heifer management interact with underlying biological aspects of growth, thereby influencing future profitability. A thorough understanding of these biological interactions is lacking. ...

Economic modelling to optimize heifer management decisions with special reference to growth and fertility

To make the right decisions, farm managers should have insight into the potential impact of management decisions on technical performance and economic results. In the Netherlands the (non-productive) rearing period of dairy heifers covers, on average, 26 months. Such a significant time lag between input and output makes it difficult for a dairy farmer to recognize the impact of various decision...

New Realities of the Enterprise Management System Information Support: Economic and Mathematical Models and Cloud Technologies

The paper focuses on the urgency of the implementation of cloud technologies, which are a necessary condition for the development of enterprise management systems, give rise to a complex of insufficiently studied phenomena and processes and determine the need to find new tools in making and implementing reasonable management decisions. In the process of research, the sequence of construction an...

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Basic Concepts of Knowledge Management

This paper provides an introductory conceptual framework for knowledge management. It treats the concepts of Knowledge Management System, Knowledge Base, Knowledge, Knowledge Process, and Knowledge Management in the abstract. It then develops corresponding definitions at the slightly lower level of abstraction of human organizations. Two approaches to knowledge management are identified and cha...