Papers presented at the New Zealand Branch, Australian Agricultural Economics Society seventeenth annual conference, University of Waikato, August 1992

Abstract

The main themes for this Conference are: Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Resource Management, Marketing and Trade Policy, and Agricultural Finance, Risk and Return. This discussion paper includes the full text of the following papers: E.C. Pasour, Jr, Economic Education and the Public Policy Process - What Can Economists Do?; Fishing for Property Rights: Property Rights Models and Issues for New Zealand Fisheries Policy Brent Wheeler, Fishing for Property Rights: Property Rights Models and Issues for New Zealand Fisheries Policy; Denis Hussey, Profitable Lychees - A Sound Reason for Increasing Milk Production?; E.C. Pasour, Jr, The Work Agenda in Agricultural Economics -What Should Agricultural Economists do Differently? ; Mike Kearney, An Intertemporal Linear Programming Model for Pipfruit Orchard Replacement Decisions ; T.G. Parminter, Agricultural Enterprise Gross Margins: A Suggested Methodological Improvement for Comparisons; G.Frengley and C. Uriarte, Reflections of Expectations in Farm Management Decisions ; Rod Forbes, Risk Analysis and Farm Monitoring ; Prakash Narayan and S. SriRamaratnam, Pastoral Sector Impacts on the New Zealand Economy ; Prakash Narayan and Robin Johnson, Capital Stock in New Zealand Agriculture 1967-1990 ;R.W.M. Johnson, The Resource Management Act and Property Rights ;

Ian Cairns, Soil Resource Management -The Institutional and Regulatory Framework ; Jim Sinner, Water Quality and the Resource Management Act: What's the Bottom Line? ; Glenda M. Lock, The Possum Problem: a Case Study in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region ; Robin Johnson and Jim Sinner, The Road to Rio: Reflections on the UNCED Summit ; F.J. McLeay and A.C. Zwart, The Role of Marketing Management in Agricultural Marketing ; R.M. Nayga, Jr, Socio-Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Consumers Associated With the Selection of Beef Products: Implications for the New Zealand Beef Industry; Ruth Wilson-Salt, Ethics, Economics and Information Markets Miriam Janett A Preliminary Analysis of the United Kingdom Sheepmeat Sector ; D.F. Waldron, J.N. Clarke, and A.L. Rae, Comparison of Relative Economic Values for Lamb Carcass Traits in Different Seasons of the Year and Regions of New Zealand ;

D.B. Binnie and J. N. Clarke, Estimation of Relative Economic Values in Sheep Breeding Programmes ;

L.A. Petrey and R.W.M. Johnson, Nontariff Barriers to the Meat Trade in Pacific Basin Countries: A Political Economy Approach ; S. SriRamaratnam, Swopsim World Agricultural Trade Model: A Preliminary Evaluation of the CAP Reform Proposal ;

T.J. Allison, R.G. Jackson, S.K. Qi and Dr P. Shannon, Measurement of the Economic Performance of Dairy Herd Testing Under a Cooperative Market Structure ; G.A. Anderson, D.L. Newman and P.G. Seed, Application of Arbitrage Pricing Theory to Farm Asset Returns Diversifying Risk on New Zealand Sheep and Beef Farms Prakash Narayan and Robin Johnson ; G . Frengley and C. Uriarte, Financial Ratio Analyses as Measures of Sheep and Beef Farm Performance ;

B.A. Cloughley and P. Joumeaux, An Investment Perspective on the Productive Value of Farm Land ;

Daniel B. Waggoner, Barriers to Increased Effectiveness of Agricultural Insurance: the U.S. Experience ; Peter Seed, Rod Forbes and Robin Johnson, The Measurement of Risk in Agricultural Investment: the Case of Irrigation ; Paul O'Neil, Do Transactions Costs Help Explain the Existence of Various Share Milking Arrangements.