This paper presents the results of using linear programming to analyse the outcome of alternative cropping and livestock systems on the Lincoln College mixed cropping unit. It does not give a detailed description of the ...

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 ...

This paper represents part of a research on the economic and human aspects of farm development on Banks Peninsula. The aim is to allocate advisory officers to districts in such a way as to maximise the response in national ...

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, ...

The major problem in the New Zealand meat industry is the future organisation of marketing of our meat products rather than increased production as such. With changing world markets, the meat industry needs to make adjustments ...

Econometric analysis of the demand for raw wool at auction published by other authors has been mainly confined to an analysis of the determinants of the consumption of raw wool. However the purchaser of raw wool at auction ...

With the fall of wool prices in New Zealand, and subsequent devaluation of the New Zealand dollar, the level of beef prices to farmers has improved considerably relative to wool and sheep meat prices. If the New Zealand ...

This report is based on results from work carried out in the marketing research programme of the Research Unit. This programme is concerned amongst other things with building up long term projections of export markets for ...

This publication is one of a series based on a thesis by Mr C. A. Yandle entitled “An Econometric Study of the New Zealand Meat Market”, written for the Degree of Master of Agricultural Science at Lincoln College. This ...

A good deal of interest has been shown in the marketing of vegetables over recent years particularly with reference to marketing margins. This survey is a study of such margins for different groups of retailers for two ...