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Agricultural Planning Expert: A Model of Farm Enterprise Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Richard A. Levins  and
Winston T. Rego
Richard A. Levins
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Winston T. Rego
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Abstract

Agricultural Planning Expert is a software model designed for advising small-scale farmers in southern Maryland. Choosing farm enterprises is modelled as consisting of four activities: suggesting enterprises for consideration, investigating the suitability of enterprises, allocating resources to suitable enterprises, and controlling the overall direction of an advising session.

Keywords

enterprise selectionresource allocationcomputer softwarefarm planning
Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 63 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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