Time series livestock diet optimization: cost-effective broiler feed substitution using the commodity price spread approach

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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Main Authors: Othman Alqaisi, Oghaiki Asaah Ndambi, Ryan Blake Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Agricultural and Food Economics
Subjects:
Multi-stage linear-programming
Broiler diet
Feed industry
Trading
Price spread
Byproducts
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40100-017-0094-9

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