Patent ID: 6990459

Claim:
A method for developing a custom farm management plan for production agriculture pertaining to a farm, comprising the steps of: obtaining input information pertaining to a farm from a user via an electronic communications network, the input information defining at least one cropping strategy; obtaining third-party financial information comprising at least crop production cost data and crop market price data; analyzing said input information, on a computer, pertaining to said farm and said third-party financial information in accordance with a mathematical model having an objective function for profit maximization bounded by resource constraints consistent with the defined cropping strategy; and maximizing the objective function to generate a corresponding first custom farm management plan based on said input information and said third-party financial information, the objective function indicative of a corresponding economic performance of the farm for display or provision to said user, wherein the objective function is expressed as the following represontation: Max Z Σc j y j x 1 −p j x 1 , where Max Z represents a maximization function, c j is the price/yield unit, y j is the yield/acre for crop identifier j, x j represent a crop program variable for crop identifier j, and p j is production costs/acre for crop identifier j.