Abstract
Agricultural systems if left to their own devices decline and disintegrate. They go out of control. Animals stray, crops fail, pests proliferate, buildings and machinery fall into disrepair, costs rise, output falls and markets are lost. An essential task of management is to confine system performance within preferred limits. These limits may be expressed in terms of means, variance or skewness either separately or together. Businesses for example may seek to attain a long run average level of profitability. However, in order to survive they must also achieve a given level of profit every year.
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Dalton, G.E. (1982). Control. In: Managing Agricultural Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7355-8_5
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