OPTIMUM-SEEKING DESIGNS FOR SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH MODELS OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Its major sources of funding have been annual grants from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the College. These grants have been sup-plemented by others from commercial and other organisations for specific research projects within New Zealand and overseas. The Unit has on hand a programme of research in the fields of agricultural economics and management including production. marketing and policy. resource economics, and the economics of location and transportation. The results of these research studies are published as Research Reports as projects are completed. In addition, technical papers, discussion papers and reprints of papers puhl ished nr delivered elsewhere are available on request. For list of previous publications see inside back cover. The Unit and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing and the Department of Farm Management and Rural Valuation maintain a close working relationship in research and associated matters. The combined academic stall of the Departments is around 25