Faced with the challenges associated with sustainably feeding the world's growing
population, the food industry is increasingly relying on operations research (OR) techniques …

Numerous recent papers based on deep learning (DL) have been published covering a
wide range of applications to pig production. These applications provide information …

Pork stands out as the most extensively produced and consumed meat globally. With
advancements in technology, genetics, and management, the structure of the pig supply …

The livestock sector in Europe is currently undergoing multiple transformations. The
challenges posed by these changes must be faced by an increasingly aged workforce …

The Covid-19 pandemic is a major healthcare disaster that has fundamentally transformed
our daily lives and the operations of governments, businesses, healthcare operations, and …

Broiler chickens are specially raised for meat production and their supply chain is composed
of breeders, hatcheries, feed mills, farms, slaughterhouses, wholesalers, and retailers. The …

This paper presents a production planning model for managing the pig herd production
system operating as a Pig Supply Chain (PSC). The model is formulated as a multiperiod …

In this paper, we propose a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for the Chicken Flock
Sizing, Allocation and Scheduling Problem (CFSASP), which is an important planning …

Highlights•System dynamics model to simulate production of pig breeding and fattening
units.•Herd-specific data and important factors for each breeding level were incorporated.• …

This paper focuses on vertically integrated pig companies based on multi-farm systems. The
aim is to address tactical decisions to plan production, increase flexibility, improve …