David Parsons send me the proceedings of the 1. ORAFM meeting (EWDA-04) at Silsoe Research Institute, 27-28 September 2004. Titles include

• Crop rotation modelling, Nina Detlefsen
• A procedure for estimating long-term change in farm systems –
  an application to irrigation in East Anglia, Eric Audsley.
• Optimising Routes in the Logistic Planning of an Agribusiness
  Company, Sergio Ubeda.
• Application of a dynamic linear programming model on an ex post
  impact assessment analysis – The case of spineless cactus in
  alley cropping in Central Tunisia, Véronique Alary.
• Stochastic Optimisation in Excel: An Application to Sub-Arctic
  Dairy Farming, Paul A. Feldman.
• Optimising the management of Striga hermonthica using
  stochastic dynamic programming, Eric Audsley.
• Risk aversion in Markov decision processes, Lars Relund Nielsen.
• Returns to split-sex feeding in pig fattening, Jarkko K. Niemi.
• A Markov Decision Process approach with Q-learning for
  the stand management problem, Frédérick Garcia.
• A simulation model for designing and sizing sow farms, Lluis Plà
• Real-time, model-based control of pig growth, David Parsons.
• Anticipation in agricultural production management, Roger Martin-Clouaire.
• MEASURES: a whole-farm linear programme with environmental interactions, Daniel Sandars.

All papers can be downloaded as a single zip file.