Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry

Optimal Planning of Pig Transfers Along a Pig Supply Chain.- Planning the Planting, Harvest and Distribution of Fresh Horticultural Products.- Production and Logistics Planning in Seed Corn.- Harvest Planning in Apple Orchards Using an Optimization Model.- Optimisation of the Supply Chain Management of Sugar Cane in Cuba.- A Hierarchical Planning Scheme Based on Precision Agriculture.- Optimal Transport Planning for the Supply to a Fruit Logistic Center.- Simulating Vulnerability in Victoria's Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chain.- Simulation Optimization: Applications in Fish Farming - Theory vs. Practices.- Swarm Intelligence in Optimal Management of Aquaculture Farms.- Multi-objective Optimisation for Improved Agricultural Water and Nitrogen Management in Selected Regions of Africa.- Modelling of Catastrophic Farm Risks Using Sparse Data.- Forecasting Grape Maturation Under Head Stress Using MatPred.- Technical Efficiency of Sow Farms: A Parametric and Non-parametric Approach.- Multicriteria Analysis of Olive Farms Sustainability.- On the Feasibility of Establishing a Northern-Western Australian Beef Abattoir as a Facility Location Problem.- Optimal Delivery of Pigs to the Abattoir.- Diet Problem.- Markov Decision Processes to Model Livestock Systems.