When this Seminar was announced there were some raised eyebrows and the question was asked: Why hold a Seminar on wool marketing when the price of wool has never been higher? There are a number of good answers to such a ...

The economic climate in which New Zealand has found itself in the last couple of years has placed great stress on the farming sector and farm service industries. To the individual farmer the problems have centred around ...

This report is an empirical attempt to investigate various procedures and schemes aimed at reducing post-tax income variability of New Zealand sheep farmers. Section 2 of this report is a brief review of some measures ...

Following a postal sample survey of sheep farmer attitudes to incentives and obstacles to increasing farm output and other agricultural policy issues in November 1975 a postal survey of a group of members of the New Zealand ...

This report represents a further extension of the activitles of the unit in cost of production studies. It is the result of a contract between the New Zealand Milk Board and the New Zealand Town Milk Producers' Federation ...

It is suggested that the freight rate that an alternative wool shipping service could offer will influence the Conference rate for wool shipped from New Zealand to Europe. Data are presented showing that wool freight ...

This paper uses a variance partitioning technique to attempt to measure the relative contribution of several factors to variation in sheep farm incomes. The analysis covers individual farms, individual regions, and the ...

The justification for the setting of rate maximums and minimums by the New Zealand Ministry of Transport for the rural road goods transport industry is reviewed in the light of the continuing need for greater efficiency ...