The mechanisation of the dairy industry in New South Wales has proceeded gradually over the past fifty years; however, the rate of increase in the use of mechanised equipment during that period has been far from uniform. The introduction of milking machines at the turn of the century resulted in...

The role of the agricultural economist in rural extension is discussed with particular reference to the changing structure of extension, exemplified by the development of private consulting services and the changing orientation of extension from purely technical considerations to problems of...

The financial year which ended 30th June, 1947, was the fourth year in which a group of selected wheat growers kept complete records of their financial transactions in co-operation with, and in Record Books provided by, the Division of Marketing and Agricultural Economics. Reports covering the...

One of the principal objectives of the survey of a group of wheat farms in the central-west of New South Wales, conducted by the Division of Marketing & Agricultural Economics in February and March, 1951, was to ascertain the cost of operating machinery in use in the wheat industry. An account...

During the past nineteen years there has been a marked change in the proportion of livestock of all types, slaughtered in metropolitan, as compared with country areas. During this period there has been a continuous movement of slaughtering to country districts with the result that the proportion...