New Zealand stone fruit constitutes a multi-million dollar industry. Possibly because the industry exports very little in either value or quantity terms little work has been completed in this industry. Little is known, ...

An optimisation model is developed to evaluate the economic use of nitrogen fertiliser in sheep farming enterprises which depend on seasonal production of grass-legume pastures as the main source of feed. Nitrogen fertiliser ...

Fencing is now recognised as a major aid towards improved management of runs. With costs of both materials and labour high and rising, it is essential that all fences erected be well planned, and well constructed of the ...

This Report is the second in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of Wheat ...

The National Wheat Growers' Survey was initiated in 1976 to provide continuing information on the costs and returns from wheat growing, and generally on the production patterns on farms where wheat is grown. The Survey ...

This report has been prepared by the staff of the Institute because of the vital importance of the Waimakariri Catchment. It attempts to collect under one cover all the relevant information from known sources and to make ...

This paper presents the results of using linear programming to analyse the outcome of alternative cropping and livestock systems on the Lincoln College mixed cropping unit. It does not give a detailed description of the ...

This Discussion Paper presents some views on the relationship between the Acts under which the producer boards operate and the Commerce Act, 1986. In particular, the discussion reviews the interpretation of the powers ...

In the drier areas of New Zealand irrigation is one possible method of securing the increased volume of farm production which the country reguires, but irrigation is costly. From the national viewpoint, it will only be ...

This thesis sets out to explore some economic aspects of the changes in land use which are the result of cities spreading on to, and taking over, land formerly in some agricultural use. The exploration is mainly verbal, ...