A stated objective of the current Government's wheat policy is that New Zealand should be self sufficient in the production of wheat. A means by which this could be achieved is through changes in the announced price for ...

This book is about what might lie ahead for rural New Zealand - its people, its resources and its institutions. In discussing issues and events surrounding people who produce, process and market New Zealand's food and ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper reports estimates of the energy used in New Zealand agricultural production up to the farm gate during the decade 1972-1981. As well as a description of total energy usage, the paper shows how the most important ...