National Wheatgrowers' Survey no. 4 : Interim report: 1979-80 season

Abstract

The National Wheatgrowers' Survey is an annual survey being undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of Federated Farmers of New Zealand Inc. Information relating to wheatgrowing and associated farm enterprises is collected from wheat.growers on two farm visits each year. The first visit takes place after drilling and the second after harvesting. This report summarises the information collected from the survey farms on the first visit for the 1979-80 wheat season. It includes descriptions of the survey farms and the relative importance of various enterprises for the 1979-80 season. and compares these with results obtained for the previous surveys. Average establishment costs for the wheat crop are also presented. A more detailed report covering the information · presented in this report, together with that collected on the second farm visit (after harvest), will be available by mid 1980.