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| Description |
| Assumption 1 | Initial pasture mass is 1,400 lbs. per acre while soil organic matter is 6800 Kg/acre. |
| Assumption 2 | Dry matter intake per day is 3 percent while daily weight gain during grazing and winter season are 1.5 and 0.87, respectively. |
| Assumption 3 | 2/3 of the paddocks are for grazing while 1/3 is used for winter feed. Pasture is represented as tall fescue-clover mix that, once it is consumed at the stated stocking rate, takes approximately 30 days to grow back. |
| Assumption 4 | Pastureland in the PBB industry is predetermined. |
| Assumption 5 | Forage is a tall fescue-clover mixture. |
| Assumption 6 | Death loss is 2 percent under certainty while under uncertainty differs annually. |
| Assumption 7 | Hay is completely mobile across space. |
| Assumption 8 | The farm of interest is a beef supplier under an agreement in which the average stocking rate over the planning horizon is the minimum stocking rate to be sold at the end of each operational year. |
| Assumption 9 | The slope in the contracting farm is flat while in the nearby farms might differ. |
| Assumption 10 | 90 percent of the manure in the spatial domain is recoverable. |
| Assumption 11 | Manure is completely mobile across space and collected during winter season. |