Biophysical and economic models for assessing impacts of change on grazingland ecosystems

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2001
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Campina Grande, Brazil: Asociación Latinoamericana del Caribe de Ingeniería Agrícola
Abstract

This paper integrates three models to derive information on socioeconomic impacts of climatic conditions and management approaches for a typical South Texas ranch. The authors apply PHYGROW to simulate conditions on a South Texas cattle and goat ranch. POPMIX was used to simulate forage production with two cattle : goat ratios (to represent different management strategies). Simulation results, as well as two ten-year weather scenarios (30% and 50% drought years to simulate normal and dryer conditions), and estimated animal production and operating costs, were incorporated into a firm level income and policy simulator (FLIPSIM), to yield integrated predictions of socioeconomic impacts.

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Forage, Goats, Cattle, Modeling, Livestock management, Economic modeling and analysis, Economic impacts, Grazing systems, Range management, Simulations, Model integration, Grazingland ecosystems, Management strategies, Phytomass growth simulator (phygrow), Animal production, Flipsim, Socioeconomic impacts, Farm/Enterprise Scale
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Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental 5(1): 135-137