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Boll, Jan - Soil and Water Conservation Society

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Optimization Model<br />

• To evaluate various options to achieve sediment<br />

reduction goals while optimizing the farm income<br />

• The objective function is to maximize the net<br />

returns subjected to constraints of l<strong>and</strong> availability<br />

<strong>and</strong> soil loss reduction:<br />

Max Π = ( PC<br />

* Y − C,<br />

F<br />

CC,<br />

F<br />

) X<br />

C,<br />

F<br />

C,<br />

F<br />

Subject to the constraints:<br />

Σ X<br />

C , F<br />

=<br />

C<br />

Σ eC<br />

, F<br />

X<br />

C , F<br />

L<br />

≤<br />

F<br />

E

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