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There are audits, and there are audits : response of New Zealand kiwifruit orchardists to the implementation of supermarket initiated audit schemes
(Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability, 2007-09)
New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry is strongly focused on its commitments to producing a high quality product that meets the increasing demands of its main export markets. This report examines the recent introduction of two ...
Dynamics of herd buildup in commercial deer production
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1984-05)
The study described in this report is valuable in that it explains, in economic terms, the high prices currently being paid for live deer in New Zealand. While there continues to be uncertainty associated with deer velvet ...
Economic evaluation of Matua prairie grass as a pasture species on Canterbury sheep farms
(Lincoln College. Agricultural and Economics Research Unit., 1987-09)
Matua prairie grass could play a significant role on Canterbury pastoral farms as a perennial greenfeed. It should not be seen as a substitute for ryegrass/white clover pastures or for lucerne stands but rather as a ...
An illustrative example of evaluation procedures (Drainage scheme -- North Canterbury)
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968-06)
The objective of the project is to provide information on an accept-reject decision on the Osborne’s Drain Improvement Scheme. The scope of the project is to prevent flooding and to improve the efficiency of drainage, so ...
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 ...
Do our experts hold the key to improved farm management?
(Lincoln College. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit., 1989-05)
Some farmers, and consultants, are better at their job than their colleagues. A branch of artificial intelligence known as expert systems attempts to capture this difference (their expertise) in computer based systems and ...
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 ...
Some aspects of the economics of nitrogen storage farming in New Zealand
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1972-05)
In this paper we are concerned with some economic aspects of the use of artificial nitrogen fertilisers in New Zealand agriculture. With the prospect of much cheaper nitrogen fertiliser in the future (and possibly more ...
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 ...
Proceedings of a New Zealand seminar on project evaluation in agriculture and related fields
(Lincoln College. Agricultural Economics Research Unit., 1968)
The evaluation of projects which demand capital strikes at the heart of the economic problem - that is - the making of decisions about the allocation of scarce resources amongst competing ends. In a perfectly competitive ...