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A Software Package for Teaching Farm Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

Richard A. Levins  and
Dale M. Johnson
Richard A. Levins
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
Dale M. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
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Abstract

“Finding Your Agricultural Advantage” is a collection of four programs—one to generate case studies, one to do “trial-and-error” solutions, one to display linear programming solutions, and one to maintain case study data files. The four programs can be used together or individually as instructor preferences dictate in teaching farm planning. A step-by-step method for teaching with the software is presented as an example of its use.

Keywords

linear programmingmicrocomputerscase studiesalternative crops

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 157 - 162
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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