Matua prairie grass could play a significant role on Canterbury pastoral farms as a perennial greenfeed. It should not be seen as a substitute for ryegrass/white clover pastures or for lucerne stands but rather as a ...

New Zealand serves as a good case study of the processes of economic adjustment for a number of reasons. Its economic structure has strong similarities with both the developed and less developed country groupings: it is ...

This paper is a response to the Tariff Working Party Report to the Minister of Trade and Industry, 1987. Objectives of the paper are to: expand the case for removing import protection; provide some insight into the future ...

Recent proposals have been made to introduce biological agents to naturally regulate gorse (Ulex europaeus) in New Zealand (Hillcost-benefit analysis, 1986). Gorse is a serious scrub weed to both farmers and foresters, but ...

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

The principal objective of the 1985-86 survey was to determine the average net farm income received by town milk producers in New Zealand. Information produced by the survey is used for a variety of purposes. It assists ...

The generalized drying equation is developed by studying the characteristics of rapeseed for drying air temperature throughout a range of 30-60° C, an airflow range of 0.21 to 0.53 m³(s m²)⁻¹ and an initial moisture content ...