The thesis presents the results of research into the diffusion of irrigation in the Old Ellesmere County. Using a sample of 45 irrigating farmers the spatial and temporal diffusion of irrigation is mapped and an interpretation of the observed patterns pre ...

There has been a large volume of research concentrated within the Dairy Industry relating individual cow performance under differing planes of nutrition, grazing intensities and management systems with various measures of technical efficiency. To the writ ...

Late in 1975 the Agricultural Economics Research Unit surveyed 3,156 randomly chosen South Island sheep farmers to obtain information on their transport needs and problems. The primary aim of the survey was to quantify the volume and flow patterns of t ...

The agriculture of Santa Catarina State, South Brazil, is characterised by the predominance of small and diversified farms. The majority of the food for internal consumption (e.g. maize, black beans, rice, milk, cassava, poultry and pork) are produced by ...

The general problem in farm management is to allocate scarce farm resources among production alternatives to maximize an objective which is usually profit. Farm plans are needed which are technically feasible and which maximize the objective. In recent ...