Time series livestock diet optimization: cost-effective broiler feed substitution using the commodity price spread approach
Abstract Sustainable feed formulation (defined here as nutritional and economic feed optimization) is substantial in feed chain production from crop farmers to livestock producers. Diet formulation employing a static linear programming (LP) approach, which is widely used in trading firms and feed pr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-12-01
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Series: | Agricultural and Food Economics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40100-017-0094-9 |