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Some recent changes in rural society in New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1989-07)
This report reviews recent changes in rural society by describing adjustments on the farm and in the rural community. The financial position of farmers is described and shows that restructuring has had differential impacts ...
Trends in rural land prices in New Zealand 1954-1969
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1971)
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 ...
Tower silo farming in New Zealand. Part II : economic possibilities
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1969-09)
This is the second report that investigates into tower silo farming in New Zealand. As stressed in the first report, there is insufficient evidence from the past
operation of these farming methods in New Zealand to assess ...
Tower silos in New Zealand. Part I : a review
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1969-04)
This is the first report that seeks to describe the present usage of tower silos in this country, the main implications for management on the farms concerned, and the attitudes of the existing operators.
Information was ...
Survey of New Zealand farmer intentions and opinions, October-December, 1983
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1984-05)
This survey is the sixth major survey of New Zealand Farmer Intentions and Opinions. All have been aimed at providing policymakers
and those in the agri-business sector in New Zealand with data on which they can formulate ...
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 ...
New Zealand agriculture and oil price increases
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1979)
This paper is based on the assumptions that world oil
resources are finite and that world oil production will peak sometime
in the 1980s or 1990s (Hughes & Mesarovic 1978 : 139).
Such a scenario is now widely accepted ...
Trends in the terms of exchange and productivity in the New Zealand dairy industry
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1970-06)
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 ...
Proceedings of a seminar / workshop on the New Zealand goat industry held at Lincoln College, 3-4 July 1979
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit, 1979-08)
The organisation of a goat industry seminar and workshop at Lincoln College falls in line with the College's general support for innovation in the New Zealand farming industry.
The seminar and workshop were held at the ...
Optimum-seeking designs for simulation experiments with models of agricultural systems
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1978-12)
Over the last decade there has been a
remarkable increase in the use of systems modelling for research in farm management. This has been accompanied by substantial progress in the development of model building techniques ...