As an animal farmer, you are given few choices. This means you need to make decisions wisely! You have control over the following:

Farming Method

• You start off using Conventional, but may at any time switch to Sustainable. By choosing Sustainable, you are opting to put Best Management Practices to use.
• These reduce nutrient runoff, but are more expensive.

Waste Treatment

• You start off using Basic Treatment, but at any time may add Covered Storage. Again, this is more costly to use, but more environmentally friendly.
• Not shown: once Covered Storage has been selected, a third option for Waste Treatment becomes available. You may add Nutrient Removal.
• This third option is the most environmentally friendly. However, it is comparatively very expensive . Once you have added nutrient removal, you may NOT return to earlier Waste Treatment Methods

Purchasing Animals

• You may increase the size of your herd as the game continues, by entering an integer number of animals to add.

Setting Life Goals

• You may set these ONCE, at the start of the game
• You must compate the importance of the Economy, Environment, and Quality of Life. These numbers represent your personal opinion and may be any numbers you choose, as long as all three add up to 100

Assessment

• With each round, you are given the opportunity to asses the Economy, Environment, and Quality of Life in the Watershed. These values help determine the Quality of Life in the game. Moreover, they help you inform your regulator as to what areas need improvement.

As an Animal Regulator, you're limited to two types of decisions.

Tax

• Using Conventional Farming Methods
• Using Basic of Waste Treatment Methods
• Using the Covered Storage Waste System

Incentivize

• Using low-input Sustainable Farming Methods
• Using the Covered Storage Waste Treament Method
• Using the Nutrient Removal Waste Treatment Method

Taxes and Incentives work against each other. For example, taxing 200 dollars for using Covered Storage, and offering 200 dollars for using Covered Storage Waste Treament Method, will result in no movement of money. Use the Helpful Hints page to learn how to balance taxes and incentives

There is a 1000 dollar limit on incentives

Life Goals and Assment

• Unlike the other roles in the Chesapeake Bay Game, the regulators do not have the opportunity to set Life Goals. The Life Goals for the Animal Regulator are determined by averaging those submitted by the Animal Farmers- after all, you are representing them! Similarly, you do not have control over assessing the Economy, Environment, and Quality of Life, as they are factored in to determing how YOU are doing as a regulator. You will still recieve a "Life Goal Score" : it is based on what the Farmers have prioritized, and how they have rated your performance in meeting those goals (through their assessments).