Papers presented at the New Zealand Branch, Australian Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Flock House, Bulls, July 1989

Abstract

The themes for the 1989 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society include: Meat Industry, Farm Finance, Agricultural Policy, Dairying, Energy Pricing, Privatising Water, Kiwifruit Industry, and Agricultural Trade and Trends. This discussion paper includes the full text of the following papers: Murray Bolton, Investing in Real Growth; Jock McKenzie, Meeting People's Needs; Roger Middlemass, Change in the New Zealand Meat Processing Industry - A Union Perspective; Margaret Millard, The American Experience - Lesson for New Zealand; Bill Dobson, Lessons to be Gained from Experiences with Farm Financial Stress in New Zealand and the USA; Ron A. Sandrey and Warren E. Johnston, Agricultural Policies in New Zealand and the US - Similarities, Differences and Lessons; A. Wright, J.R. Nicholls, D.I. Gray and P.A.G. Fraser, Aspects of Farm Firm Growth in the Pongaroa Region; A.H. Hughes, H.D. Jose, W.J. Parker and F.M. Anderson, Adjustments to Dairy Farm Management Practices and Lifestyle Between 1985 and 1988 in Response to Changes in Government Policy and Milkfat Payouts in The Manawatu Region of New Zealand; Ralph Lattimore, The Efficient Price of Energy; Walter Moore and Murray Arthur-Worsop, Privatising Water: An Analysis of Initiatives to Sell Community Irrigation Schemes and to Create Water Markets; S. SriRamaratnam and R.G. Reynolds, The New Zealand Pastoral Sector Supply Responses: Preliminary Modelling Results; Larry Stenswick, N.Z. in the Aftermath of GATT; D.J. Greenfield, New Zealand in the Post Mid-Term Review of the GATT Uruguay Round; John Pryde, A New Role for the Cairns Group; Philip Journeaux, Restructuring in the Kiwifruit Industry; J.C. Lockhart, Results of a Survey of Planning and Financial Management on Three Farm Types in New Zealand; R.W.M. Johnson, The Risk Environment of Farming; Doren Chadee, Agricultural Trade Liberalisation Initiatives Under GATT: Implications for New Zealand; B.R. Robinson and R.G. Reynolds, Measures of and Trends in Agricultural Competitiveness in New Zealand.