This study reports an ex post evaluation of the impact the Supplementary Minimum Price (SMP) Scheme had on the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector over the period 1978/79 to 1984/85, and for a forecast following five ...

During the 1970's the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board introduced a buffer fund price stabilisation scheme, and the Government implemented a pastoral sector Supplementary Minimum Prices scheme. The schemes were jointly ...

This report describes an updated version of an econometric model of the New Zealand pastoral livestock sector which has evolved over a number of years. Taking earlier work by Laing and Zwart as a starting point, their ...