This study evaluated the ability of nine models to describe and predict the response of grain yield to flood irrigation of wheat and barley crops. The models may be divided into four groups: 1). Input-Output models 2). ...

Prior to the opening of the St James Walkway in 1981, David Simmons of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism at Lincoln College, proposed a five year research programme to the New Zealand Walkways Commission. ...

The use of lupins for feeding sheep is reviewed. The paper concentrates on the use of sweet Lupinus angustifolius (in Australia) as a source of supplementary summer feed for sheep which normally graze dry pasture or cereal ...

Phosphate rock is a strategic material upon which pastoral agriculture and all New Zealanders depend. Phosphate fertilizer has no close substitute, and is, therefore an important limiting factor to agricultural productivity. ...

This report presents a review of the trends in production, consumption, and trade in fruit juice products. The report is intended to give a broad background to existing and potential producers and exporters of fruit juice ...

Technical change affecting agriculture and horticulture is not limited to production techniques and systems. Change in the harvesting, packaging, storage and transport activities, or the physical distribution processes, ...

Considerable scope exists for the reduction of the primary and secondary costs associated with crop protection, by the formulation of judicious fungicide application regimes. The design, building and operation of a ...

This discussion paper describes the dairy farming situation, the changing domestic demand and the changes in imports of dairy products that Japan is experiencing. Some of the problems the dairy farming industry is facing ...

The need for farmers to undertake effective management and accounting practices for their businesses is always present and is especially important in times of financial constraint. In general, farm accounting appears ...

The present call for recognition of Maori fishing rights is based on the Treaty of Waitangi. Similarities between the Maori rights and recent developments with North American Indian fishing rights are presented and ...