A modern farm specific labour budgeting system

The computerised farm labour budgeting system known as PUBAS and developed at IMAG-DLO, is currently being used by insurance companies. They can work with relatively rough labour figures. For use in a research environment, ho wever, the current version of this labour budgeting system is not sufficien tly accurate. The present PUBAS version cannot answer questions relating to the real limiting conditions of the labour demand as these relate to work organisation. By extending PUBAS with a more detailed level of input and ou tput, more facilities of the underlying labour budgeting model can be made available to users of the PUBAS user interface. This paper provides an over view of useful extensions and the way they will be implemented in the exten ded version of PUBAS.