It has been my brief to critically analyse a sample of 70 farming operations from a total population of approximately 300 operations. My analysis has been in the capacity of a financier and therefore biased toward ...

Evaluating the effects of reforms to New Zealand's agricultural policy is a topic of enduring interest, especially in recent years. This Research Report examines an important aspect of farm structure (family and corporate ...

The symposium acknowledges the significance of the South Island high country and its pastoral use. Interest is focused throughout the symposium on pastoral practices, even though both the origins and the solutions to ...

The main objective of this research was to describe and understand the decision making of organic and conventional farmers so that we could understand why, or why not, they grew organic products. Organic production was ...

Over the last 20 years some definite trends have occurred in New Zealand dairy farming. Total milk processed has increased steadily yet simultaneously there have been a decline in the number of dairy farms. The major ...

The transfer and adoption of scientific information in New Zealand agriculture is below optimal levels. This is particularly so in regard to genetic improvements in the sheep industry. The New Zealand sheep industry has ...

The project involves a comparison of land purchase options for expansion of a Northland Dairy Unit.

The objectives of this project are to firstly to raise awareness of planning for retirement and farm succession. The second objective is to formulate and enunciate a consideration of the key elements of viability, ...

This report is written to look at unit standards learning in Agriculture. For many years farming has been a knowledge passed down through the generations or learnt over a period of time through trial and error. Not ...

The Kellogg's Experience: A Record of the first 10 courses - an insight into the people, the leaders and scholars