The dairy industry in northern Victoria faced dramatic changes between 2001/02 and 2002/03. Drought resulted in a substantial decrease in availability, and subsequent increase in price, of irrigation water and supplementary feed. Most farms recorded substantial net cash flow deficits. Prior to...

It has been stated many times that the standards of UK engineering in terms of people are too low in comparison with other industrialised countries. Industry's comment about this statement is that it is far too much a generalised viewpoint, when in fact standards throughout the UK cover a wide...