Abstract

When using analytical tools to make decisions, farmers frequently complement formal analysis with personal experience, judgement, and intuition as part of the decision-making process. The array of analytical decision aids available to farmers is expanding. Although some of these decision aids are more complex than others, nearly all are based on a rigorous analysis of factual information and quantitative data (Downey and Erickson). This article illustrates the application of a decision model called the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to a problem in farm-level decision making. AHP is based on the principle that decision-maker knowledge and experience are as valuable within the decision-making process as are quantitative data and information from other sources. In AHP

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