This survey is the first in a series of New Zealand Farmer Intentions and Opinions. All have been aimed at providing policy makers and those in the agri-business sector in New Zealand with data on which they can formulate ...

The goat in New Zealand has long been an accepted but largely ignored animal. In recent years interest in the goat has revived. This is especially so in terms of mohair production, as a result of the current high prices ...

A stated objective of the current Government's wheat policy is that New Zealand should be self sufficient in the production of wheat. A means by which this could be achieved is through changes in the announced price for ...

A postal survey of farmers in Mid Canterbury was carried out in 1977 in order to ascertain the interest, resources and attitudes of farmers to the growing of sugar beet in their region. An extremely high net valid ...

Since the Second World War, Government has played an important role in developing unproductive land in New Zealand. The aim of this report is to examine why Government became so deeply involved in the development of such ...

When this Seminar was announced there were some raised eyebrows and the question was asked: Why hold a Seminar on wool marketing when the price of wool has never been higher? There are a number of good answers to such a ...

The publication of this bibliography is intended to bring together under one cover a list of references on particular areas concerning goats. The list is not exhaustive, but it is considered that those people with a ...

In this paper we are concerned with some economic aspects of the use of artificial nitrogen fertilisers in New Zealand agriculture. With the prospect of much cheaper nitrogen fertiliser in the future (and possibly more ...

Following a postal sample survey of sheep farmer attitudes to incentives and obstacles to increasing farm output and other agricultural policy issues in November 1975 a postal survey of a group of members of the New Zealand ...

Three species of aphids occurring on cereals in New Zealand were examined for their production of sex forms at a photoperiod of less than the critical 14½ hours light noted in the literature, at a range of temperatures. ...