Building agricultural models

What Virtual-Agri?

Virtual-Agri is a suite of Delphi components designed to build stochastic or deterministic simulation models representing agricultural systems.

Technical Aspects

Virtual-Agri is suitable for all those who are interested in programming models in a rapid way. In the suite there several interphase and modeling components that allow developing customized applications. The suite includes:

1. VirtualCow: is a class that has several intrinsic and performance parameters that represent a cow. This virtual cow can take the information from real cows´ record.
2. VirtualHerd: is a component that contains a group of VirtualCows to simulate a herd. The virtual herd uses a series of biological parameters and statistics to simulate the behavior of the herd in time, in both deterministic or stochastic manner. In the same way these parameters and statistics that can be taken from real herds´ records.
3. VirtualBeef: Is a component that also contains a group of VirtualCows to simulates modules of growing and fattening animals.
4. VirtualLand: Is a series of classes that represent bio-masses, crops, paddocks to simulate the land use and bio-masses yields in time (land subsystem simulation).
5. Interphase Components: Is a group of visual components, mostly grid, that can be used to built the interphases for data entry and outputs from simulations.
6. DataBase: Is a series of Paradox tables to storage the information from multiples projects and systems.

Implementations

This suite of components has been developed and used to built the following application: