Farmer decision making: general

MtM ABM description

Top level farmer decision flowchart

The overall farmer decision making process is shown below. Each farmer goes through this sequence each model time step. Note that the aging and succession step may also result in all of farm land use change, which follows the same general procedure described in Farmer decisions about land use, except that single holding changes are not considered, and consideration of whole-farm land use change is triggered by any single holding losing money.

flowchart TB
  A((START))
  B[Age farmers and<br>replace any that exit]
  C[Update income, costs, and<br>profit of holdings and farms]
  E[/For each<br>farmer.../]
  F{Loss-making<br>holdings?}
  G[<span style='color:red;'>Consider land<br>use change</span>]
  L[<span style='color:red;'>Consider<br>interventions</span>]
  N[/More<br>farmers?/]
  Z((END))
  A --> B
  B --> C
  C --> E
  E --> F
  F -->|Y| G
  F -->|N| L
  G --> N
  L --> N
  N -->|Y| E
  N -->|N| Z
  click G "04-farmer-decisions-land-use.html" "Click for details"
  click L "05-farmer-decisions-interventions.html" "Click for details"

Update History

Date	Changes
2024-12-19	Initial post.