A model developed to aid a state-level resource allocation process in the United States Department of Agriculture Special Supplement Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is presented.

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. We have infinite desires and wants and only some limited amount of resources to satisfy them.

Seed number, biomass invested in growth, and vegetative propagation (gemmae production) were used as indices of resource allocation. Allocations to sexual reproduction, vegetative propagation and ...