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Optimal Feed Mill Blending

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  • Tozer, Peter R.
  • Stokes, Jeffrey R.

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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.

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  • Tozer, Peter R. & Stokes, Jeffrey R., 2006. "Optimal Feed Mill Blending," 2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia 139913, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare06:139913
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.139913
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    1. Uday S. Karmarkar & Kumar Rajaram, 2001. "Grade Selection and Blending to Optimize Cost and Quality," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 49(2), pages 271-280, April.
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