The perception by Government in 1974 of a need to modify fluctuations in farm product prices resulted in the establishment of the Farm Incomes Advisory Committee (the Zanetti Committee) to investigate and advise Government ...

The New Zealand meat industry has been undergoing significant changes during the past decade. These changes have prompted the carrying out of research on the New Zealand meat industry and the likely development of new ...

Interest in the quality of New Zealand wheat and flour is ever ongoing. A further catalyst to interest in the topic was the announcement that New Zealand farmgate wheat prices would be directly linked with world prices ...

In 1978 the Road Research Unit of the National Roads Board commissioned the Agricultural Economics Research Unit (AERU) to undertake studies related to trip and tonnage generation associated with various land uses in ...

This report presents an economic analysis of soil conservation and water management policies for high country tussock grasslands. With few exceptions, high country water and soil conservation measures are not obligatory ...

This is the fourth major survey of New Zealand Farmer Intentions and Opinions undertaken by the author. The others relate to 1977, 1978 and 1979. All were aimed at providing agricultural policy makers and those in the ...

This report is the eighth in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand town milk supply farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of the ...

The following report contains a description of version two of an econometric model of the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector of the New Zealand economy. This description should be viewed as a further development of the ...

Recent years have seen a major revolution in the world of electronics. Computers have increased in size and capability and at the same time decreased in cost. Equally as important, communication systems have improved, ...