Best Management Practices
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- A Re-assessment of the Stock Unit System
1 March 2005
MAF Information Paper No: 2005/02 - Environmental Management Systems Standards
14th June 1995
This article focuses on the development of environmental management systems standards, one of a number of industry initiatives which are under way to address consumer expectations. - Facts at their Fingertips: Knowledge and Skills for Sustainable Land Management in South Island Hill and High Country
28th October 1998
This project aimed to review best management practices; identify barriers to the uptake of these practices; and come up with some practical recommendations. - Intertemporal Linear Programming Model for Pipfruit Orchard Replacement Decisions
26th June 1994
This paper describes a linear programming model to optimise variety structure over time for a pipfruit orchard subject to constraints of minimum cash requirements, orchard area, harvest constraints and not removing more than is planted in any one year. - Optimal Regulatory Model
11th April 2000
This paper examines how one particular aspect of government regulatory activity is now undertaken: the setting and operation of the regulatory framework in which food producers, manufacturers and retailers operate. - Role of On-Farm Quality Assurance and Environmental Management Systems in Achieving Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management Outcomes
9th February 1999
These systems, by linking consumer/market preferences to farmer/grower management practices, can clearly transmit market signals, as well as acting as a vehicle for meeting wider expectations relating to the impact of production systems on the environment. - Quality Products from a Quality Environment
2nd January 1997
Quality products from a quality environment embodies much of what we currently refer to as sustainable agriculture, and reflects a convergence of these previously quite separate influences on agriculture. However, achieving this simple concept in practice is a major challenge to growers and farmers.
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