K21 Reports

This investigation, of how self-concept labels influence the adaptation of overseasborn partners of New Zealand-born farmers into rural New Zealand, was designed to look at why some partners successful make the transition to rural New Zealand and farming, while others struggle. The hypothesis is that if immigrant partners can change the self-concept labels they use … Read more

This report looks at the site selection process and construction of the modern day landfill and what the impact is on the local rural community. Bubb John

Increased nitrogen application has potential to achieve “step change” in forage production and productivity of hill country properties. This paper reports the results of a financial evaluation of high rates of nitrogen at Limestone Downs where the farms management have experienced difficulty in meeting sheep and cattle feed requirements in late winter and spring. High … Read more

Poverty is defined as scarcity and lack. Poverty has global impact with almost half of the worlds population living on less than US $1 per day. Poverty fuels instability and an insecure society. With the World becoming an ever smaller community, instability and insecurity in one nation affects the stability and cost of doing business … Read more

The New Zealand Dairy industry is committed to developing the knowledge and skills of its farmers by investing time, energy and money into training activities. What is uncertain is how effective this training is in terms of learning. Fleming and Bonwell (1980) believe that the effectiveness of training is largely determined by the learning styles … Read more

The world of finance can be extremely confusing and complicated to the everyday person especially when this is not a primary part of a person’s business life. This introduction to finance lightly touches upon a few topics, very briefly. An effort has been made to distil out some basic facts that may be of interest … Read more

To determine what the challenges are to rural primary health care, and make recommendations to enhance sustainable service provision. My objective is to qualify the future needs of Community Health Trusts. They must meet the Ministry of Health directives regarding Primary Healthcare. These are as stated in the back to back contracts between PHOs and … Read more

Historically, New Zealand farms have predominately been in family ownership, over time ownership of the land passed from one generation to the next. Over the previous five years, rapidly escalating land prices have made it very difficult for farming families to achieve this. However, there have been some farming operations that through good business planning, … Read more

Statistics reveal around 6800 new lifestyle blocks are created each year. Yet surprisingly little is known about “Lifestylers” – nobody knows for sure whether the anecdotal data reported in media matches the reality of life on a lifestyle block. This research was undertaken to investigate people who have purchased and live on lifestyle properties on … Read more

Team Building is one of those trendy Human Resources buzzwords that get thrown around when we think we should be doing something for our staff But what is it? Is it worthwhile? Will it be worth the cost, time and effort? Many employers have organized Team Building activities for their staff and then later questioned … Read more

The research for this paper was done in Otago but there is every reason to expect that it would apply equally to any region in New Zealand. It is intended as a guide to any farmer contemplating a stand alone power system. Individual farm circumstances make it unlikely that all the answers could be provided. … Read more

The agribusiness consultancy profession has undergone significant change since the early 1980’s. An early finding in this investigation is that the profession has evolved largely in reaction to changes in the industry. There has been very little proactive change. There hasn’t been a lot of leadership. Sole traders and small consultancy firms are currently not … Read more

This report identifies the opportunity for dairy farm development work in China, which lead to the formation of the company Agricultural Developments International Ltd (ADiL’s). The report summarises the challenges and influences effecting ADiL in its quest to find a suitable starting point for agriculture development in China. The report covers a number of the … Read more

With the popularisation of equity partnerships during the last 15 years in the dairy industry, it was decided that a review of what characterises success and lack of success within equity partnerships would be useful. This would enable recommendations to be put to existing and prospective investors in equity partnerships. This is a small “snapshot” … Read more