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Managing Reliability and Stability Risks in Forest Harvesting

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M&SOM

    Abstract
    The timing of forest stands harvesting is an important operational decision in forestry. Major goals of private nonindustrial forest owners are to achieve a steady flow of profits while reaching an overall satisfactory and reliable profit level. These ...
Sugarcane Harvest Logistics in Brazil

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Transportation Science

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    Sugar mills in Brazil represent significant capital investments. To maintain appropriate returns on their investment, sugar companies seek to run the mills at capacity over the entire nine months of the sugarcane harvest season. Because the sugar content ...
Information Provision Policies for Improving Farmer Welfare in Developing Countries: Heterogeneous Farmers and Market Selection

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M&SOM

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    We examine the impact of information provision policies on farmer welfare in developing countries where farmers lack relevant and timely information for making informed decisions regarding which crop to grow and which market to sell in. In addition to ...
Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries

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M&SOM

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    The necessity of surface water for irrigation and its increasing scarcity in developing economies motivate the need for its efficient distribution. The inequity in the distribution of surface water arises because of the relative physical locations of the ...
Advanced Analytics for Agricultural Product Development

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    Syngenta, a leading developer of crop varieties (seeds) that provide food for human and livestock consumption, is committed to bringing greater food security to an increasingly populous world by creating a transformational shift in farm productivity. ...
Operations Research Models and the Management of Agricultural and Forestry Resources: A Review and Comparison

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    Operations research (OR) has helped people to understand and manage agricultural and forestry resources during the last 40 years. We analyzed its use to assess the past performance of OR models in this field and to highlight current problems and future ...
Supply Allocation Under Sequential Advance Demand Information

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Operations Research

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    We study the problem of allocating supply under advance demand information. We consider a company that must allocate limited inventory to different markets that open sequentially. To reduce uncertainty, the company receives advance demand information and ...
Syngenta Uses a Cover Optimizer to Determine Production Volumes for Its European Seed Supply Chain

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Interfaces

    Abstract
    Syngenta’s European seed business relies on Syngenta’s supply chain to supply seed products to various European markets, which generated more than $1.2 billion in revenues in 2013. The seed supply chain is, however, exposed to a high level of uncertainty ...
Wine Analytics: Fine Wine Pricing and Selection Under Weather and Market Uncertainty

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M&SOM

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    We examine a risk-averse distributor’s decision in selecting between bottled wine and wine futures under weather and market uncertainty. At the beginning of every summer, a fine wine distributor has to choose between purchasing bottled wine made from the ...
Using Experts’ Noisy Quantile Judgments to Quantify Risks: Theory and Application to Agribusiness

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Operations Research

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    Motivated by a unique agribusiness setting, this paper develops an optimization-based approach to estimate the mean and standard deviation of probability distributions from noisy quantile judgments provided by experts. The approach estimates the mean and ...
Product Portfolio Management with Production Flexibility in Agribusiness

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Operations Research

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    The acquisition of production flexibility is a well-documented strategy pursued by many firms to counteract certain operational constraints. However, these flexibilities can increase the complexity of a production system and the difficulties in managing ...
Is IT Enough? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India’s Agriculture Markets

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phone networks is widely known to improve market efficiency. In this paper, we examine whether access to timely and accurate information provided through ICT applications has any ...
Milking the Quality Test: Improving the Milk Supply Chain Under Competing Collection Intermediaries

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Management Science

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    We examine operational and incentive issues that conspire to reduce the quality of milk—via deliberate adulteration by milk farmers—acquired by competing collection intermediaries in developing countries. Broadly speaking, three main forces in the milk ...
Supply Management in Multiproduct Firms with Fixed Proportions Technology

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Management Science

    Abstract
    This paper studies the supply management of a primary input, where this input gives rise to multiple products in fixed proportions. My objective is twofold. First, I study fixed proportions technology under demand uncertainty in comparison with the ...

Other Journal Articles

Big Data in Smart Farming – A Review
Sjaak Wolfert, Lan Ge, Cor Verdouw, Marc-Jeroen Bogaardt
Agricultural Systems
Published Online: May 2017

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