This dissertation explores the role of soil-amending technology in the development of New Zealand's agricultural sector. In a survey of the evolution New Zealand's farming systems it is shown that the use of soil amending emerged from a set of circumstances whereby the utilization of grassland farming methods was favoured by the development of refrigerated marine transport and governmental policy which fostered the formation of small, family farms adapted to more intensive livestock production whose produce refrigerated ships could deliver to the British market. The relative shortages of capital and labour in this institutional structure led to the introduction of labour-saving technology which promoted grassland-based farming systems. The ...
The Agricultural Economics Research Unit has, over the last three years, published a number of stud...
In this paper the author made a point of agricultural land use in New Zealand and tried to make clea...
This dissertation addresses the government support of agriculture issue. The debate over the desira...
The New Zealand economy is export-driven and heavily reliant on the productivity of the pastoral sec...
In the following paper attention is drawn to the necessity of a better organisation of agricultural...
From the earliest European settlement in New Zealand the wealth of the country has depended heavily...
This research examined the practice of soil fertility management, and the rationale behind it, in 19...
The development of New Zealand as a people, a blend of cultures, a nation and an economy owes much t...
Historically Western agriculture has been dominated by small individually owned farm units which hav...
Why did a small urban based population think it could subsidise it's dominantly export agriculture? ...
The New Zealand Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme develops emerging agribusiness leaders to help shape...
Pastoral farmers seek to continue to increase on-farm productivity and to do this they need new fora...
One of the main distinguishing features of the New Zealand economy has been the heavy dependance on ...
The aim of the study was to identify the conditions under which a group of farmers would be willing ...
Best copy available due to the condition of the orginal.New Zealand is essentially a land of pasture...
The Agricultural Economics Research Unit has, over the last three years, published a number of stud...
In this paper the author made a point of agricultural land use in New Zealand and tried to make clea...
This dissertation addresses the government support of agriculture issue. The debate over the desira...
The New Zealand economy is export-driven and heavily reliant on the productivity of the pastoral sec...
In the following paper attention is drawn to the necessity of a better organisation of agricultural...
From the earliest European settlement in New Zealand the wealth of the country has depended heavily...
This research examined the practice of soil fertility management, and the rationale behind it, in 19...
The development of New Zealand as a people, a blend of cultures, a nation and an economy owes much t...
Historically Western agriculture has been dominated by small individually owned farm units which hav...
Why did a small urban based population think it could subsidise it's dominantly export agriculture? ...
The New Zealand Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme develops emerging agribusiness leaders to help shape...
Pastoral farmers seek to continue to increase on-farm productivity and to do this they need new fora...
One of the main distinguishing features of the New Zealand economy has been the heavy dependance on ...
The aim of the study was to identify the conditions under which a group of farmers would be willing ...
Best copy available due to the condition of the orginal.New Zealand is essentially a land of pasture...
The Agricultural Economics Research Unit has, over the last three years, published a number of stud...
In this paper the author made a point of agricultural land use in New Zealand and tried to make clea...
This dissertation addresses the government support of agriculture issue. The debate over the desira...