The goat in New Zealand has long been an accepted but largely ignored animal. In recent years interest in the goat has revived. This is especially so in terms of mohair production, as a result of the current high prices ...

This paper begins by distinguishing between investment from the individual and national viewpoints; purchase of existing assets is investment only for the individual whilst the creation of new assets is investment for both ...

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 ...

A postal survey of farmers in Mid Canterbury was carried out in 1977 in order to ascertain the interest, resources and attitudes of farmers to the growing of sugar beet in their region. An extremely high net valid ...

Since 1968 agricultural production in New Zealand has been virtually stagnant. In 1975 studies were undertaken at the Agricultural Economics Research Unit to investigate some of the main causes of the fall off in the rate ...

The 1979 Budget statement reasserted the Government’s commitment to full employment as a policy objective but considered that inflation and the balance of payments limited the scope of monetary and fiscal measures to ...

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 ...

In this paper we are concerned with some economic aspects of the use of artificial nitrogen fertilisers in New Zealand agriculture. With the prospect of much cheaper nitrogen fertiliser in the future (and possibly more ...

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 is the first in a new series of economic surveys on New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. Until now, the surveys, undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of the wheatgrowers ...