With the advent of the personal computer (micro computer) there is a need to develop software suitable for use by farmers. To gauge this requirement a postal survey of 1,500 farmers was conducted in early 1982 eliciting ...

Considerable scope exists for the reduction of the primary and secondary costs associated with crop protection, by the formulation of judicious fungicide application regimes. The design, building and operation of a ...

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 ...

The implementation of effective measures of economic management requires a substantial volume of statistical information as the basis of measurement of the needs and achievements of current policies. Two of the most ...

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. ...

Farming is an industry which depends on the work, decisions and competence of a large number of individual farmers, each of them running their own farm business. These business units vary widely in the resources at their ...

The Royal Commission on the Monetary, Banking and Credit System (1956) first recommended that improvements should be made in the statistics relating to the agricultural sector in New Zealand. Since that time the need ...

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 ...

Farm labour is a resource which has been given less research attention in past years than it has deserved. This is true both from the point of view of efficient resource use as well as from a social and rural community point ...