Fertiliser and production on a sample of intensive sheep farms in Southland 1953-64
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1967
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Monograph
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Abstract
In this publication we set out the results of a comparative
study of intensive lamb production in Southland. Farm records for a
ten year period are analysed in terms of fertiliser application,
stocking rates and net income. The particular sample of farms
was chosen from an area where stocking rates were already relatively
high, and where further gains in productivity might be achieved with
difficulty. The study shows that stocking rates have increased by
nearly twenty per cent over the period without greater fertiliser
inputs. The technological advance during the period has thus
been more in the direction of management organisation rather than
in direct inputs. Future advances could clearly be dependent on
both of these factors.