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标题：Optimal Feed Mill Blending
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作者：Tozer, Peter R. ; Stokes, Jeffrey R.
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2006
卷号：37
期号：SUPPL
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Commercial feed blending is a complex process consisting of many potential raw ingredients and final products. The sheer number of daily orders and final products at a typical feed mill means that raw ingredients cannot be mixed to directly produce final products in an economical fashion. As a result, the intermediate production of pellets with pre-specified nutritional content is a necessity that makes the feed blending problem highly nonlinear. A nonlinear approach to feed blending is discussed and results from an empirical application are compared to the results from a sequential linear programming approach common to most feed mills.
关键词：agribusiness;feed blending;linear programming;non-linear programming