In this paper the subject of agricultural credit has been subdivided into three sections covering background, borrowing, and lending. The background covers some of the changes in the New Zealand economy and government ...

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 ...

This survey is the sixth major survey of New Zealand Farmer Intentions and Opinions. All have been aimed at providing policymakers and those in the agri-business sector in New Zealand with data on which they can formulate ...

Technical change affecting agriculture and horticulture is not limited to production techniques and systems. Change in the harvesting, packaging, storage and transport activities, or the physical distribution processes, ...

In this study the author has used cost-benefit analysis to determine the net benefits, at both national and private levels, of the Waiau Section of the Amuri Plains Irrigation Scheme in North Canterbury. The effects on ...

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 National Wheatgrowers' Survey is an annual survey being undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of the Wheat Growing Sub-Section of Federated Farmers of New Zealand Inc. ...

It is now ten years since the report of the first Commission of inquiry into the Meat Industry, led by the Honourable A.H. Nordmeyer, was tabled before Parliament. Many of the recommendations of the Nordmeyer Commission ...

Profitability in beef farming, as in most other sectors of agriculture in New Zealand, is under pressure. Without having recourse to price fixing on world markets, farmers can only relieve the pressure by cost reducing ...

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 ...