Decision support models

Several points of view may be taken if we want to describe a dairy farm. An animal nutritionist would focus on the individual animal and describe how feeds are transformed to meat, bones, tissues, skin, hair, embryos, milk, manure etc. A physiologist would further describe the roles of the various organs in this process and how the transformations are regulated by hormones. A biochemist would even describe the basic processes at molecular level.

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