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Papers presented at the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) Fifth Annual Conference : "Public - v - private interests : the role of the state in agriculture" : incorporating the 23rd Annual Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) : Blenheim Country Lodge, July 1998
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 1998-07)
The fifth annual conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society covers the policy and legislation changes relative to agriculture and resource use, as well as the impact of broader policy changes. ...
Papers presented at the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) Fourth Annual Conference : "managing change in a dynamic environment" : incorporating the 22nd Annual Conference of the NZ Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (Inc.) : Blenheim Country Lodge, July 1997
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1997-07)
The main themes for this Conference are: 1. Rural Communities, Science and Research Policy, Consumer Demand, Agricultural Sector Imports and Modelling 2. Resources 3. Farm Management.
This discussion paper includes the ...
Papers presented at the New Zealand Branch, Australian Agricultural Economics Society seventeenth annual conference, University of Waikato, August 1992
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1992-08)
The main themes for this Conference are: Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Resource Management, Marketing and Trade Policy, and Agricultural Finance, Risk and Return.
This discussion paper includes the full text ...
Indicators of sustainable energy development
(Lincoln University & University of Canterbury. Centre for Resource Management, 1991-07)
The social and environmental inadequacies of conventionally defined economic growth
have led to the advocacy of "sustainability" as a more appropriate goal for national
development.The broad goal of "sustainable development" ...
Studies of transformations of sulphur in soils
(Lincoln University, 1993)
Different forms of S (inorganic sulphate-S and organic S forms) were measured in extracts from field moist, air-dried and conditioned soils (i.e. re-wetted air-dried samples) using a range of extractants. The amounts and ...
Nitrogen and the leaf growth of temperate cereals
(Lincoln University, 1995)
Under agricultural conditions where soil moisture is adequate, low nitrogen (N) availability is usually the main soil factor limiting the growth and yield of temperate cereals. A major part of the positive response of plant ...
Climate variability and food security a New Zealand perspective
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1989)
The objective of this thesis was to develop a clearer understanding of inter-relationships between climate variability and food security in New Zealand. It was considered important to both clarify crop-climate relationships ...
The physiological effects of flushing ewes on ovulation and embryo survival
(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1952)
Prolificacy in sheep, under most types of flock management, may exert an overwhelming influence on profitability. Three major classes of sheep farming are found in New Zealand, namely Extensive farming, on high country and ...
Applied ecology of the Tasmanian lacewing Micromus tasmaniae Walker (Neuroptera : Hemerodiidae)
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1989)
The Tasmanian lacewing (Micromus tasmaniae Walker) is one of the most common
aphid predators occurring in lucerne crops in New Zealand. A comparison of sampling
techniques, and the output from a simulation model, suggest ...
New Zealand agriculture and oil price increases
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1979)
This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil
resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime
in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139).
Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...