Abstract
This article reviews the use of operations research techniques in agriculture and suggests the methods available have not been fully exploited due to both the strong influences of biological factors on the farm business and the variety of tasks that the manager has to perform. There would appear to be a requirement for a simple system of business control which provides a rapid analysis of farm data without involving the manager in excessive time-consuming recording. A pig enterprise simulation model has been developed which can be combined with data from pig herds to provide a forecast of individual herd performance. This model could be used as the basis of a national or regional budgetary control scheme to provide farm managers with regular and current budgetary control information at relatively low cost.
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