Road dust emissions cause considerable productive losses to farming systems adjoining unsealed rural roads. Yet these costs are currently excluded from economic appraisals, required by the National Roads Board with each ...

In moden-day rural society, for farms to be retained within families it is becoming increasingly difficult when assets are distributed evenly between children while also providing for the parents' retirement. This report ...

The Department of Conservation (DoC) is responsible for the recovery of indigenous species and ecosystems, and the control of introduced mammals under the Conservation Act 1987, the Wild Animal Control Act 1977, the National ...

This study examines the criteria used by farmers in their decisions to adopt or reject new sheep breeds. The method used Ethnographic Decision Tree Modelling to elicit decision criteria used by the decision makers when ...

Collective participant opinion has a fundamental effect on the function of the real estate market and property values. Market participant opinion, perception and tastes all help colour the market, but also add to its ...

Contemporary literature, newspaper articles and seminars have focused on farm succession in recent times and have upheld the general belief that farm succession is a common and desired occurrence. Farmers, from the lower ...

In spite of the significant benefits that can be derived from training on safe and efficient agrichemical application and management, many primary producers do not undertake formal agrichemical training. An identified ...

Rice production, as with any other production activity in agriculture, is risky. Rice producers in Argentina apply several risk management strategies to decrease the impact of risk. However, the effects of these strategies ...

An appropriate objective for trade policy ought to be to maximise imports. Unfortunately, trade policy negotiators get very caught up in the facilitation of this objective by necessarily arguing about access for exports, ...