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The New Zealand meat export industry : structure, conduct and performance
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
Economic management requires that within the economy resources are allocated to achieve maximum efficiency in an overall attempt to promote standards of living.
The objective of this study is to examine efficiency of ...
The economics and feasiblity of farming red deer on dry east coast hill farms
(Lincoln University, 1997)
A linear programming model was developed to determine the feasibility and economics of
farming red deer on dry east coast hill farms as an alternative to marginally economic sheep and beef farming.
The traditional dry ...
Marketing management, strategic management and strategic groups in agriculture
(Lincoln University, 1993)
Agricultural marketing is frequently distinguished from marketing as it is described in the business literature because agricultural marketing theory focuses on policy, distribution channel, and efficiency issues, and has ...
The optimum profitable combination of venison, velveting stags and breeding hinds
(Lincoln University, 1996)
The objective of this study was to develop a simple and flexible linear programming model to optimise pastoral deer production systems. It is the author's aim to use the model as a tool for professional farm
consultancy ...
Regional linear programming models for the New Zealand dairy industry
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1971)
Exports of pastoral products have always occupied a most important place in the New Zealand economy. The viability of the economy is closely connected with the growing amount of products New Zealand is able to export and ...
An econometric study of the New Zealand pig-meat market
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1981)
This thesis describes an econometric investigation of the New Zealand, pig-meat market over the period 1969 to 1979. The objective of the study is to provide policy-makers within the pig industry with a model of their ...
A survey of sheep farming in Waipukurau County
(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1952)
The objective of this thesis is to gain knowledge of the economic facts concerning sheep farming in Hawkes Bay. The purpose of gathering these facts is to show where possible how management practises affect farming returns, ...
The response of agricultural prices to a change of the New Zealand exchange rate
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1977)
The objective of this thesis is to establish the response of agricultural prices to changes of the New Zealand exchange rate. Following an outline of the theory of exchange rate changes a brief history of the use of exchange ...
An analysis of the interdependence of costs and prices and their effects on the agricultural sector
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1976)
In recent years the agricultural sector in New Zealand has been faced with rising input prices and apart from the commodity price booms in the 1973 and 1974 seasons, prices received have been insufficient to maintain an ...
Transaction cost theory and the establishment of statutory marketing boards for the primary sector : an application to the New Zealand goat fibre industry
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1988)
The objective of this study was to establish a theory able to explain the reasons for the formation of horizontal associations in primary product industries. It
was felt that such work would help to understand why such ...