Features

The features outlined in this section include all the components with which to build your simulation tree. These include storing resources, performing activities, reporting output, and helping to control the flow of the simulation. These can be defined by the following categories:

• CLEM component:The main component for managing a simulation.
• Resources:All the resource stores used in the simulation.
• Activities:All the activities used to perform farming tasks and produce or consume resources.
• Timers:Timers determine when an activity can be performed.
• Filters:Filters are used to determine which individuals (ruminants and labour) can be applied to an activity.
• Data readers:Data readers access databases of production data for cropping and pasture.
• Relationships:The ability to provide mathematical relationship using x and y values.
• Reporting:The ability to summarise and report model output.
• Transmutation:This represents the CLEM approach of converting one resource into another. The most common example would be converting money into a limiting resource such as fodder.