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 ...

The incomes of farmers vary significantly from year to year as a result of fluctuations in commodity prices, weather and other factors beyond their control. The highly variable nature of farming incomes has led the New ...

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 ...

A progressive income tax penalises those taxpayers with a fluctuating income (for example, farmers), as compared with those on a stable income with the same average. However there are various methods of smoothing taxable ...

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 ...

This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...

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 ...

This paper examines post-war trends in rural land prices. New Zealand has a freehold system of land tenure and a land registration system based on the Torrens system first used in South Australia. As a result, reliable ...

Income variability is one of the serious disadvantages of farming. It makes it difficult to organize farm development wisely and upsets the farm family's standard of living. In the past there have been boom years when ...