With the removal of many forms of government intervention from the agricultural sector, risk management has become an increasingly important issue for New Zealand farmers. One strategy for managing risk is enterprise ...

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 ...

This thesis develops a deterministic farmland value model which purports to explain the movements in farm asset prices in New Zealand during the 1962-1987 period. The incorporated value determinants are the expected returns ...