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“They Changed the Rules”: Farm Family Responses to Agricultural Deregulation in Southland, New Zealand
Author(s) -
WILSON OLIVIA
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1994.tb00395.x
Subject(s) - deregulation , agriculture , recession , politics , agricultural economics , exploit , business , economics , market economy , geography , political science , computer security , archaeology , keynesian economics , computer science , law
Agricultural deregulation in the mid‐1980s altered the economic and political climate in which farm families in New Zealand operate. The results of a survey of sheep/beef farmers in Southland shows that the main response to the new conditions and the rural downturn was to ‘self exploit’. Impacts varied, depending on farm finances at the start of the downturn. Farming practices and farmers' attitudes changed… but only partly because of deregulation.