Formulating diets for growing pigs: Economic and environmental considerations

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 239-269

  Dubeau, François ^a   Julien, Pierre Olivier ^b   Pomar, Candido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost; Diet; Environment; Multi criteria model; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053131606     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0633-1     Document Type: Article

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