The present call for recognition of Maori fishing rights is based on the Treaty of Waitangi. Similarities between the Maori rights and recent developments with North American Indian fishing rights are presented and ...

Farm Ownership Savings Accounts are a popular method of saving for farm purchase and entry into sharefarming. As at 31 March 1981 there were nearly 7,000 account holders and deposits totalled approximately $29 million. The ...

This paper presents, in Part One, a review of some basic marketing concepts involved in market and demand identification. The second part of the paper applies some of the concepts to a market evaluation of the prospects ...

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 ...

Interest in the quality of New Zealand wheat and flour is ever ongoing. A further catalyst to interest in the topic was the announcement that New Zealand farmgate wheat prices would be directly linked with world prices ...

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 ...

Over a decade ago the Committee of Inquiry into Lending to Farmers (1972:19) reported that the evidence submitted to us indicated that there has been reasonable availability of loan finance for creditworthy borrowers. ...

It has been proposed that the dust drifting on to farmland adjacent to unsealed roads can reduce the volume and value of agricultural production from that land. The objective of this report is to describe an investigation ...

With the current downturn in traditional livestock farming investment New Zealand a great deal of interest is being shown in diversification. It is becoming increasing apparent that few options are open to many farmers. ...

This Discussion Paper includes the contents of a one day seminar held at Lincoln College on 3 July 1986 for the first meeting of the New Zealand Rural Economy and Society Study Group. Included are two papers read by two ...