The purpose of this paper is to analyse the summary record of how landscape has been perceived and thought about in New Zealand and to interpret the role of such perceptions and conceptions in providing unity and order ...

Sweet Brier (Rosa Rubiginosa) is a noxious weed prominent in tussock grasslands in the drier parts of Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago. It has been estimated (Hunter 1983) that sweet brier is present on over 400,000 ...

This report reviews recent changes in rural society by describing adjustments on the farm and in the rural community. The financial position of farmers is described and shows that restructuring has had differential impacts ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report describes the process of growing trees on a short rotation and intensive cultivation (SRIC) basis for the production of briquettes as a domestic fuel. The objective is to assess coppice fuel wood as a potential ...

This report presents the results of a cost-benefit analysis of biological control of hieracium. In South Island high country areas, species of the introduced hieracium genus are problem weeds. Mouse-ear hawkweed and king ...