While the importance of the price of land in agricultural production and policy is well recognised, land price formation is a process not well understood. The study reported here was aimed at an examination of the ...

The objective of this study was to analyse some key aspects of the North Island hill country farming system in order to provide a better basis for understanding the impact of political, economic and environmental factors ...

The simulation model of White (1984a,b,c) is a dynamic (time-dependent), deterministic, difference equation, compartment model with 1-day time steps and variable coefficients. The program language is SIMCOMP 2.1 (Gustafson ...

The garden, named after the founding Director of the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute, is intended to be educational. From the early 1970s, a small garden plot provided a touch of character to the original ...

The operation of production control in the New Zealand egg industry has tended to result in the sub-optimal location of production facilities. This study was instigated to: (i) determine the optimal location of egg ...

The first paper reviews the trade and economic relations between New Zealand and Japan. R.M. Miller gives a detailed description of the importance of Japan to New Zealand both as an export market and as a supplier of ...

The aim of this study was to assess the economics of controlling gorse in hill country by comparing the use of goat and sheep grazing with chemical control. The New Zealand environment has suited the growth of gorse (an ...

The principal objective of the 1982-83 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 study described in this report is valuable in that it explains, in economic terms, the high prices currently being paid for live deer in New Zealand. While there continues to be uncertainty associated with deer velvet ...

This report aims to provide the New Zealand and more specifically the Christchurch eating out industry with a base set of information to plan and co-ordinate its marketing activity over the next decade. The report describes ...