Do the backgrounds and experiences of Filipino and Chilean migrants working on dairy farms in Canterbury differ? Dairy exports are a major earner of the New Zealand economy. With the increase in the number of cows per herd ...

In Austen, a part of Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand, pastoral and arable communities have been centrally important to the rural economy, community, and landscape for multiple generations. Recently, these ...

The objective of this project is to provide a comparison of financial performance for owner operated dairy farms in Canterbury, Southland, and the West Coast.

The New Zealand dairy industry has experienced rapid intensification during recent decades in response to increasing land values. Incorporating forage crops on the milking platform is a potential strategy to increase dry ...

The New Zealand dairy Industry has had rapid expansion over the past 20 years. The intensification of farm systems and change of land use towards dairying is recognised as an important contributor to a range of environmental ...

In parts of New Zealand, economic drivers are causing intensification of dairying in order to maintain a competitive advantage for low-cost milk production. These practices have contributed to increased nitrate leaching, ...

This study establishes base data and determines the actual staff management practices followed by a sample of dairy farmers in Canterbury. A person-centred approach was followed in which respondents were simply asked what ...

To help explain dairy farmers' use of software in managing farm information, farmers' goals, personality traits and Kolb's learning styles were included as independent variables in a model. The relationships were tested ...

The aim of this study is to identify which factors have operated as adoption barriers to information innovations (computerised systems) in Canterbury (New Zeeland) daily farming. This study is a attempt to link the farm ...

With the objective of collecting data for assessing research hypotheses about information management, a mail survey was carried out on Canterbury dairy farmers between July and August of 2000. From a total of 537 questionnaires ...