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 ...

The organisation of a goat industry seminar and workshop at Lincoln College falls in line with the College's general support for innovation in the New Zealand farming industry. The seminar and workshop were held at the ...

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 ...

This paper examines post-war trends in rural land prices. New Zealand has a freehold system of land tenure and a land registration system based on the Torrens system first used in South Australia. As a result, reliable ...

Following a postal sample survey of sheep farmer attitudes to incentives and obstacles to increasing farm output and other agricultural policy issues in November 1975 a postal survey of a group of members of the New Zealand ...