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| Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| One of the world's leading agricultural economists, T.W. Schultz, recently published an estimate of the effect of the adoption of new techniques on the efficiency of United States' agriculture. Schultz estimated the average increase in efficiency at from 0.8 per cent to 1.35 per cent per annum over the period 1910 to 1950, the rate of increase being even higher in recent years. The statistics available do not permit a similar calculation for Australia. However, the systems of agriculture and the types of technical advances made in Australia and the United States are not dissimilar, and it is known that increases in the productivity of labour in the two countries are roughly equivalent, so that an assumption of an annual one per cent increase in the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 1954 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8791 |
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| Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| A number of current policy issues are discussed which illustrate serious confusion and economic illiteracy in the minds of many influential farm leaders. The issues discussed are: the cost-price squeeze in agriculture; the embargo on the export of merino rams; promotion of farm products; land policy; and tax concessions for agriculture. In some cases policies are followed which run counter to both farmer and national interests. Along with farm management extension, there is a growing need for agricultural policy extension. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 1970 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22403 |
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| Rutherford, John; Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| The scientific study of farm management and of the pattern of rural activities is destined to play an increasingly important role in the future development of Australian agriculture. Scope for expansion in primary production lies in two directions. First, in the improvement of farming techniques within the present boundaries of major agricultural development. This applies particularly to the main crop and livestock areas which experience comparatively high rainfalls. Second, in the development of new areas beyond the present margins of agriculture, by means of new techniques designed to improve natural conditions, such as irrigation works, the application of deficient minerals to soils, and other measures. It is evident that development along each of... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1952 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8847 |
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| Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| In recent years both incomes and morale have slumped in Australian agriculture. This has happened before, and today's pessimism is just as excessive as previously. There are exaggerated fears that agriculture has no future. Equally, there are some exaggerated hopes, as to the extent to which we can rapidly and effectively restructure the economy away from agriculture, and restructure agriculture away from the "broadacre industries". The key words, with regard to the latter objective, are value added, high-tech (sunrise) and infant industries, and better marketing. By contrast, the conclusion suggested in this paper is that traditional broadacre agriculture will remain, for decades, vitally important in reducing the balance of payments deficit which is our... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9654 |
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| Lloyd, Alan G.; Willoughby, W.M.. |
| This paper discusses what economists want experimenters to do, and why, and criticises existing methods from the economists' viewpoint. The subject has received very little serious attention outside of North America and practically none, as far as I am aware, in Australia. The exception is a valuable critical survey, by Pearse, of the Department of Agriculture's experimental work in a large part of Western Australia. We are concerned in this paper only with certain types of agricultural experiments; namely (i) experiments which investigate physical input-output relationships (such as fertiliser, feeding and stocking rates) and (ii) where the technical data alone does not suffice to indicate an optimum. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 1958 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22468 |
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| Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| In December, 1955, the New South Wales Government amended the Dairy Industry Act, 1915-1955, to increase the quota of margarine production in this State from 2,500 tons to 9,000 tons per annum. Following - on a large increase in the Queensland quota some years earlier, this development heightened the perennial fears of dairying industry organisations that competition from margarine would have very serious effects on the incomes of Australian dairymen. However, speaking during the second reading of the bill (November 23, 1955), the Minister for Agriculture and Food Production gave as his opinion that "whatever effect margarine has upon the dairy industry at present, the tendency in the future will be for it to diminish ... ". It is the purpose of this... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 1956 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8931 |
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| Thatcher, L.P.; Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| An inventory model is used to determine least-cost fodder reserves for sheep in the Hamilton area of Victoria. Unlike earlier studies a grazing model is used to generate feeding requirements and thus allows for the gradual onset of drought and the associated rise in feed prices. Compared with studies based on probabilities of effective rainfall, the approach used measures more accurately the way in which drought incidence is affected by the seasonal pattern of pasture production in relation to animal requirements. The grazing model facilitates a study of the relative severity of drought at a range of stocking rates and a number of probability distributions are identified. The refinements achieved by using a grazing model also allow a more realistic... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1975 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9186 |
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| Verhagen, A.M.W.; Hirst, F.; Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| In earlier papers on drought, sequences of wet and dry months were treated as realisations of binomial trials with periodic probabilities of failure (dry months), and the cost-revenue outcomes of alternative drought strategies were handled probabilistically. When costs and revenues may be represented by a set of second degree polynomials over a set of adjacent subranges of the time scale, their expectation may be expressed as a simple closed formula in the twelve probabilities of dry months. As an illustration of the use of these new formulae, means and standard deviations of drought duration calculated in this manner are presented for three typical localities in Queensland. Previously known closed formulae for the mean and the variance in the case where... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1968 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22697 |
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| Hickey, G.J.; Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| In 1962-63 a survey was conducted of forty-three dairy farmers in the Nambrok-Denison area of the Central Gippsland Irrigation District, near Maffra, in Victoria. One of the main purposes of the survey was to obtain estimates of resource productivities, using the Cobb-Douglas production function approach. This approach, to be successful, requires (inter alia) a high degree of uniformity between farms as regards soil, climate, stage of development and technical efficiency in management. A detailed soil survey of the area was available, and all eligible farms on a group of closely similar soil types were included in the sample. The restricted area ensured uniformity of climate (23" rainfall) and the fact that the farms were part of a Soldier Settlement... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1965 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22655 |
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