Offers a treatment of modern applications of modelling and simulation in crop, livestock, forage/livestock systems, and field operations. The book discusses methodologies from linear programming and neutral networks, to expert or decision support systems, as well as featuring models, such as SOYGRO, CROPGRO and GOSSYM/COMAX. It includes coverage on evaporation and evapotranspiration, the theory of simulation based on biological processes, and deficit irrigation scheduling.

Offering practical and informative exercises in nearly every chapter, this text/reference presents valuable computer strategies for solutions to challenges commonly faced in agricultural production, processing, and management and covers topics that are integral to real-world agricultural system management including precision agriculture, crop and operation simulation, geographic information systems, project scheduling, systems reliability, machinery performance and cost, and linear optimization.