The use of farm-management tools by New Zealand sheep farmers: Changes with time

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2016
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New Zealand Society of Animal Production
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The utilisation of farm-management tools by New Zealand sheep farmers can support on-farm decision making, thus facilitating improvements in productivity and profitability of the farming enterprise. There are numerous management tools available to farmers, for example, a recent report identified 127 tools that were available to New Zealand farmers (Allen & Wolfert 2011). Although a large number of tools are accessible to farmers, a survey of sheep farmers conducted in 2012 by Corner-Thomas et al. (2015) identified many that were utilised by only a small percentage of farmers. This indicates that there is the potential for increased uptake of management tools which, if relevant, may lead to benefits in on-farm productivity. The aim of the current study was to determine for sheep farmers in New Zealand, if use of farm-management tools had changed over a two-year period.
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Farm-management tools, New Zealand Farmers, sheep, productivity
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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, 2016, 76 pp. 78 - 800
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