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.

Lluís M. Plà-Aragonès is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Lleida (UdL) and a Senior Researcher in the Animal Production Area at the UdL-IRTA Center. His research interests include operational research methods applied in agriculture and forest management, with special reference to simulation, dynamic programming, Markov decision processes and production planning. He coordinates the EURO working group called Operational Research in Agriculture and Forest management. He is also a member of INFORMS and EURO.