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 ...

This discussion paper sets out the main developments in project evaluation in agriculture and forestry in New Zealand. The paper includes a bibliography of the appropriate reports and the following discussion relates to ...

Before devaluation in November 1967, New Zealand faced the most marked deflationary pressure on the economy since the 1930’s. Since 1964, economic policies had emphasised the need for growth, based on an expanding flow ...

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, ...

With the fall of wool prices in New Zealand, and subsequent devaluation of the New Zealand dollar, the level of beef prices to farmers has improved considerably relative to wool and sheep meat prices. If the New Zealand ...

This paper sets out the available information on price trends facing the dairy industry since 1948/49, and some estimates of productivity increases over the same period. The general aim of the paper is to ascertain how the ...

This paper examines post-war trends in rural land prices. New Zealand has a freehold system of land tenure and a land registration system based on the Torrens system first used in South Australia. As a result, reliable ...

This publication reports on a further investigation of hill country development undertaken by the Agricultural Economics Research Unit. Molesworth Station is a large property in the tussock grassland area of the South ...

This discussion paper updates the data on gross capital formation in the AERU research report titled: Capital formation in New Zealand agriculture, 1946-67.

The study of supply has always interested agricultural economists. A complete understanding of the supply behaviour of farmers under different price situations is the basis of most teaching in agricultural economics and a ...