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A management study of town supply dairy farming in the Christchurch area
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1967)
Town milk supply is produced by small groups
of farmers throughout the country, each with its own particular problems. Many of the areas are not suited to dairy farming
so that town milk producing farms are often isolated ...
Desirable attributes of computerised financial systems for property managers
(Lincoln College. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 1988-04)
Most producers face a wide range of financial decision making problems and consequently can potentially make effective use of the many different computer based financial analysis packages available. Examples include ...
Tractor replacement policies and cost minimisation
(Lincoln College. Agricultural and Economics Research Unit, 1983-11)
Calculating the most appropriate replacement policy for farm tractors
is a complex exercise made even more difficult because of inadequate
data on how resale values and repair costs vary with tractor age and
hours of ...
Actual and potential computer use by a group of primary producers
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 1992-05)
"In the rural sector, computer adoption has been significant, although not at the rate evident in the urban scene. In order to identify the level and type of computer use practised by rural businesses, especially farmers, ...
An expert system for sheep drenching
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 1994-05)
The animal grazing industry is a major sector of New Zealand's economy. Managers controlling the utilisation of the nation's massive pasture production tend to make utilisation decisions using experience and intuition in ...
An expert system for surplus feed allocation
(Lincoln University. Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit, 1994-05)
"The animal grazing industry is a major sector of New Zealand's economy. Managers
controlling the utilisation of the nation's massive pasture production tend to make utilisation
decisions using experience and intuition in ...
The psychology of decision making in farm management : a review of the background to managerial ability, and suggestions for a research programme to investigate its improvement
(Lincoln University. Farm and Horticultural Management Group, 1999-05)
Managerial ability has always been regarded as an important parameter in agricultural production. However, while there have been studies on descriptive aspects of management processes and abilities (e.g., Johnson et al ...
Managerial competencies in primary production : the view of a sample of New Zealand farmers
(Lincoln University. Farm and Horticultural Management Group, 2002-12)
A mail survey designed to obtain the views of New Zealand primary producers on the important management competencies was sent to a randomly selected sample of 2300 managers in mid-February 2001. The sample was stratified ...
Managing welfare improvement for the urban poor : a case study from Bangkok, Thailand
(Lincoln University. Farm and Horticultural Management Group, 2001-10)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the urban poor community dwellers in
Bangkok manage their own development projects through community schemes. The main
objectives were to explore the needs of the poor, the ...
Computer use and attitudes for a sample of Canterbury, New Zealand dairy farmers
(Lincoln University. Farm and Horticultural Management Group., 2001-07)
With the objective of collecting data for assessing research hypotheses about
information management, a mail survey was carried out on Canterbury dairy farmers
between July and August of 2000. From a total of 537 questionnaires ...