A Growing Problem: Exploring Livestock Farm Resilience to Droughts in Unit Record Data

A Growing Problem: Exploring Livestock Farm Resilience to Droughts in Unit Record Data

Motu Research

Published
2020
Authors:
Levente Timar, Eyal Apatov

This is a research paper that explores how droughts impact dairy and sheep-beef farms in New Zealand. It examines financial outcomes, such as profits and expenses, and how farms respond to droughts.

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