Preface to the Special Issue on OR and Big Data in Agriculture.

This special issue will help glean the diversity of challenges in decision-making in agriculture and the exciting opportunities for applying Operations Research and Big Data methodologies in this area. This special issue comprises a collection of contributions that define the state-of-the-art of decision-making support in agriculture, combining Operations Research methods and Big Data techniques to help solve many real-world problems in agricultural supply chains, land use, small-scale farming, livestock, precision agriculture, smart farming, sustainability, and environmental protection, among others. [Extracted from the article]