For large areas of New Zealand that suffer from agricultural drought, the only practicable way of providing irrigation is through the use of water harvesting schemes that divert winter flood water in nearby streams into ...

A sub-catchment (Torlesse Stream) of the Kowai River, Canterbury, has been the site of an interdisciplinary study of the relationships between erosion and stream sedimentation (Hayward 1975). It was logical to extend the ...

Over the last three seasons there has been a gradual increase in average carcass weight of export lambs slaughtered (Table 1). Favourable environmental and, to a certain extent, economic conditions have enabled and ...

The family Leguminosae is one of the largest families of flowering plants with members widely distributed throughout the world. The characteristic feature of the family is the fruit which is a pod. The family is divided ...

This paper reviews the sheepmeat markets in three importing regions (North America, Japan and the Middle East) over the period 1960-80. These regions form so called 'development' markets for N.Z. sheepmeat exports as ...

Sheep farming is an important enterprise in the U.S.S.R., Mongolia and some of the Eastern European countries. The U.S.S.R., in fact, has the largest number of sheep in the world, though production is considerably lower ...

The majority of the world's sheepmeat exports come from the Southern Hemisphere, where production is based on extensive grazing systems. The three main exporters are Australia, N.Z. and Argentina. Australia's sheep ...

The pattern of production, consumption and trade in sheepmeats has distinct characteristics. Whilst most countries have a domestic sheep industry, very few are actively involved in international trade. The trade has ...

This report is the fifth in an annual series of economic surveys of New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of Wheat Growers ...

This report is the third in an annual series of economic surveys which concentrate on financial aspects of New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at ...