Adverse trends in lamb and wool prices and the costs of most purchased inputs have submitted sheep owners to an increasing cost-price squeeze over the latter part of the last decade. This phenomenon has been the cause of concerned comment by industry leaders and has undoubtedly led to extremely...

The view is taken that institutional factors operating in the international beef market limit the usefulness of a competitive spatial equilibrium model for understanding the process of price formation in the Australian beef market. A simple theoretical model is developed to demonstrate the...

This paper focuses on some emerging and recurring issues of wool promotion policy. In particular it examines the implications for wool promotion of recent developments in raw wool marketing policy. The issues analysed are the relationship between International Wool Secretariat (IWS) promotion...

Regulation of the New South Wales dairy industry creates inefficiencies and raises the cost of production. In this study, the industry is modelled by adapting an ABARE subregional programming model, and using spatial equilibrium linear activity analysis to examine the effects on the production...

During the War, considerable changes have taken place in the Australian Egg Industry, not only in the pattern of production and distribution, but also in organisation. The industry now faces the transition back to a peace-time footing, and it is well to have as clear a picture as possible of...