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Economic implications of increased wool production
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1964)
The paper analyses the implications of a national annual
increase by New Zealand producers of 5% in the production
of wool compared with the present long-term rate of increase
of 3%. This, it is estimated, would change ...
The New Zealand meat export industry : structure, conduct and performance
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
Economic management requires that within the economy resources are allocated to achieve maximum efficiency in an overall attempt to promote standards of living.
The objective of this study is to examine efficiency of ...
Some projections of retail consumption in New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1966)
The objective of this paper is to investigate some factors influencing the level of sales from retail stores in New Zealand and to give some projections of possible future levels of sales in five years and ten years from ...
An analysis of factor costs in the New Zealand meat processing industry
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
This thesis analyses the factor costs of killing and processing sheep and lambs from works gate to ex-works in a New Zealand processing company.
It examines the effect of throughput numbers on these factor costs using ...
The international sugar situation and New Zealand’s sugar policy
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1964)
In deciding whether or not there should be established a
sugar beet industry in New Zealand, there are many considerations
which policy makers need to bear in mind, but there are two major
questions which initially must ...
Firstlight venison value sheet: yield based payment system enabling carcass optimization through identification of high value traits
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2012)
The traditional New Zealand meat industry payment system has historically benefited farmers for
through-put of livestock with little incentive to improve carcass quality or meat yield. This existing
kill payment structure ...
An economic study of wool scouring in New Zealand
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1967)
In this thesis we propose to make an economic study of Wool Scouring in New Zealand. Essentially this is an industry survey. We have taken the Wool Scouring Industry as an example of a local primary processing industry and ...
Production functions and the measurement of technical change : with special reference to the agricultural processing industries
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1970)
The neoclasssical production function developed by Arrow, Chenery, Minhas and Solow, and subsequently called the Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function, has been extensively analysed in the economic ...
The role of New Zealand Pork in the future of the pork industry
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2000)
The New Zealand Pork Industry has changed rapidly in the last ten years, but even more so
in the past three years. The first section of this report is an attempt to document some of
the changes to the industry and the ...
Location economics applied to tomato processing in New Zealand
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1967)
The processing of raw agricultural products is the largest function of the New Zealand manufacturing industry. It is inevitable that agricultural processing will expand. If New Zealand's economy continues to be based on ...