The introduction of intelligent machines and autonomous vehicles to agricultural operations
will allow for increased efficiency as well as for reduced environmental impact. Currently …

The Definitive Reference for Food Scientists & EngineersThe Second Edition of the
Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering focuses on the processes …

Technical and performance parameters of agricultural machines directly impact the
operational efficiency and entire crop production. Sometimes, overestimation of technical …

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the supply of sugarcane to mills and also the supply of
green harvesting residues to second-generation ethanol plants under three different …

The state‐of‐technology for corn stover harvest is a multi‐pass system that collects the
stover after grain harvest. An alternative is a single‐stream system where the grain and …

Harvesting corn silage requires balancing the capacities for harvest, transport, and storage
operations to eliminate bottlenecks. The overall goal of this paper is to simulate the silage …

Agro-industry supply chains involving several stakeholders need coordination. Such
systems, however, can be highly complex and may require a wide range of decision support …

Grain transportation from the field to an on-farm storage facility is a critical component of the
harvest system. A discrete event simulation model of grain transportation was developed to …

Highlights•Decision support tools for silage harvest operations improve manual
scheduling.•Specifying the right amount of transport is essential to minimise harvest …

Highlights•Extension of a simulation model for rice-harvesting and transport performance
evaluation.•Potential for reduction of manpower use (h ha− 1) in the range of 12 …