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Economic aspects of stone fruit marketing in New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1972)
New Zealand stone fruit constitutes a multi-million dollar industry. Possibly because the industry exports very little in either value or quantity terms little research work has been completed in this industry. Little is ...
A survey of Mid Canterbury farmers’ attitudes to growing sugar beet
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1978)
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 ...
Use made of transport by farmers: a pilot survey with findings relating to Ashburton county, New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1975-10)
This paper reports on a survey into the use made of transport by New Zealand farmers. The survey has been carried out as a preliminary step in a research programme of the Agricultural Economics Research Unit aimed at ...
Response patterns to a mail survey of New Zealand farmers
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1977-09)
This report reviews the literature on mail surveys. It summarises recent experience by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit of Lincoln College in using mail surveys. In particular, it reports the findings of
experiments ...
A postal sample survey of sheep farmer attitudes to incentives and obstacles to increasing farm output, and other agricultural policy issues
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1975-12)
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 ...
An evaluation of the Southland flood relief temporary employment programme
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1979-11)
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 ...
A postal survey of the opinions of a group of Farm Management Society members on incentives and obstacles to increasing farm output
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1976-03)
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 ...
An economic survey of New Zealand wheatgrowers : financial analysis, 1977-78
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1979-12)
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 ...
Studies in costs of production : town milk supply farms, 1973-74
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1976-03)
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 ...
An economic assessment of the middle class and upper class market in Malaya as a potential outlet for New Zealand meat and dairy products
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1970)
It is only recently that the need for New Zealand to find and develop new food markets has become apparent. Up till then, her established markets, mainly the United Kingdom, have been able to absorb all the food products ...