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 report continues the recent series of publications that the Agricultural Economics Research Unit has brought out on the implications of the 1964 Agricultural Development Conference. Livestock targets were drawn up by ...

Since 1968 agricultural production in New Zealand has been virtually stagnant. In 1975 studies were undertaken at the Agricultural Economics Research Unit to investigate some of the main causes of the fall off in the rate ...

This report presents the results and conclusions from a consumer survey which was carried out in Christchurch and Auckland during January 1980. It was aimed at providing information on consumer purchasing and consumption ...

This paper presents the analysis, methods, and results from a survey of meat buying attitudes and consumption patterns in the Christchurch metropolitan area. The project is part of a larger study to determine and measure ...

This paper reports on a survey into the use made of transport by New Zealand farmers. The survey has been carried out as a preliminary step in a research programme of the Agricultural Economics Research Unit aimed at ...

This paper reports on the second part of a survey of hill country sheep farms in the North Island, where sixteen development programmes that have already been undertaken are assessed by means of present worth analysis. ...

This report presents the detailed results of a survey of farm labour in patangata County, Hawke's Bay. A sample of 100 farms was chosen from 333 at random with farming type consisting of hill country sheep and cattle ...

In recent years, some 12,000 acres in New Zealand has been used for green pea production for processing. The greater proportion of this land is in Hawkes Bay, but commercial crops are also grown in Nelson, Marlborough, ...

This report is the first in a new series of economic surveys on New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. Until now, the surveys, undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of the wheatgrowers ...