With the choice of forward looking theme for this year's conference, we have embarked on providing a vision for the New Zealand agricultural sector in the 21st Century. We decided to address this theme by focusing on four ...

This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...

The Supplementary Minimum Price policy has been a major topic of debate in the past few years, but there have been relatively few attempts to quantify the impacts that the scheme has had on the agricultural sector. Although ...

This paper reports estimates of the energy used in New Zealand agricultural production up to the farm gate during the decade 1972-1981. As well as a description of total energy usage, the paper shows how the most important ...