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An analysis of alternative wheat pricing schemes
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1980-09)
The aim of this study was to measure, from an economic efficiency viewpoint, the impact of making the domestic wheat pricing scheme more responsive to changes in the world wheat price. This was done by distilling information ...
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 ...
Livestock targets in North Canterbury hill country: the impact of changing prices
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968-10)
This report continues the recent series of publications that the Agricultural Economics Research Unit has brought out on the implications of the 1964 Agricultural Development Conference. Livestock targets were drawn up by ...
Report on a survey of farm labour in Patangata County, Hawke’s Bay, 1965/66
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1966-05)
This report presents the detailed results of
a survey of farm labour in patangata County, Hawke's Bay. A sample of 100 farms was chosen from 333 at random with farming type consisting of hill country sheep and cattle ...
The profitability of hill country development. Part 2: case history results
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1965)
This paper reports on the second part of a survey of hill country sheep farms in the
North Island, where sixteen development programmes that have already been undertaken are assessed by means of present worth analysis. ...
Processing peas : a survey of growers’ returns 1967/68
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968)
In recent years, some 12,000 acres in New Zealand has been used for green pea production for processing. The greater proportion of this land is in Hawkes Bay, but commercial crops are also grown in Nelson, Marlborough, ...
Fresh vegetable retailing in New Zealand : an economic survey
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968)
A good deal of interest has been shown in the marketing of vegetables over recent years particularly with reference to marketing margins. This survey is a study of such margins for different groups of retailers for two ...
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 : enterprise analysis : survey no. 4, 1979-80
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1980-09)
This report is the fourth in an annual series
of economic surveys of New Zealand wheatgrowing farms. These surveys have been undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit at Lincoln College on behalf of Wheat ...