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 ...

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 ...

Farm Ownership Savings Accounts are a popular method of saving for farm purchase and entry into sharefarming. As at 31 March 1981 there were nearly 7,000 account holders and deposits totalled approximately $29 million. The ...

Over a decade ago the Committee of Inquiry into Lending to Farmers (1972:19) reported that the evidence submitted to us indicated that there has been reasonable availability of loan finance for creditworthy borrowers. ...

Some farmers, and consultants, are better at their job than their colleagues. A branch of artificial intelligence known as expert systems attempts to capture this difference (their expertise) in computer based systems and ...