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Linear Programming Applied To Sheep Ranching In Utah, William R. Flint
Linear Programming Applied To Sheep Ranching In Utah, William R. Flint
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The study was initiated to determine how sheep ranches were physically and economically organized in 1964 and to select range and livestock management alternatives which would be profitable to sheep ranches. With data collected from the ranches three model ranches, representing the three most prominent strata, were constructed. These strata were determined by number of breeding ewes that were on the ranch and by the season of grazing on government land, i.e., winter, summer, or year around. After the building of these three ranches, each of them was linear programmed to find the profit maximizing combination of resources both before …