Proceedings of a seminar on costs beyond the farm gate, held at Lincoln College 12 March 1976 (1976)
Pryde, J. G., McCarthy, W. O., Fyfe, D. L.
The economic climate in which New Zealand has found itself in the last couple of years has placed great stress on the farming sector and farm service industries. To the individual farmer the problems...
The ambulance facility location problem - a survey of methods and a simple application (1975)
Gough, Janet D., McCarthy, W. O.
Title on cover page: The ambulance facility location problem - a survey of methods and a simple solution.
Studies in costs of production: process peas & beans, 1974-75 (1975)
McCarthy, W. O., Moffitt, R. G., Cosgriff, P. W., Chudleigh, P. D.
The objective of this survey was to provide the New Zealand Vegetable and Produce Growers' Federation and individual growers with data and trends on costs and returns for process peas and beans; to...
PRODUCTION FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF A FERTILIZER TRIAL ON BARLEY
Production functions of one type or another have been well explored and widely discussed, no less in the literature of agricultural economics than elsewhere. A particularly fruitful area of...
AN APPLICATION OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS TO BEEF SLAUGHTER PLANT LOCATION AND SIZE, QUEENSLAND
Cassidy, P.A., McCarthy, W.O., Toft, H.I.
The objective of this study is to define in the cost minimizing sense the optimum size and location for beef slaughter plants in the Eastern Central Queensland region. The plant location model used...
Methods of Management, Sources of Advice and Objectives Among A Sample of Queensland Dairy Farmers
McCarthy, W.O., Tugby, Donald J.
Farm Management, Livestock Production/Industries,
An Evaluation of Sidelines as a Method of Raising Net Incomes of Dairy Farmers
Labor and Human Capital, Livestock Production/Industries,
Dairy Farm Amalgamation and Increased Farm Output
McCarthy, W.O., Hodgson, N., Briggs, J.E.
Livestock Production/Industries,
A Simulation Approach to Risk Assessment in Investment Analysis
Cassidy, P.A., Rodgers, J.L., McCarthy, W.O.
A simulation technique is advanced as a means of determining the probability of achieving various possible financial outcomes when assessing alternative investments. To this end a model is...
A Spatial Analysis Approach to Size and Location of Australian Wool Selling Centres
Ferguson, D.C., McCarthy, W.O.
This study is concerned with determining the number, size, and location of selling centres for Australian wool so that transport and selling charges are minimized. A plant location model...
Sensitivity of Plant Location Solutions to Changes in Raw Product Supplies
McCarthy, W.O., Ferguson, D.C., Cassidy, P.A.
A method is outlined to test the stability of a plant location solution to changes in regional production. Supplies are generated within a probabilistic framework and used as input data for the usual...
Ferguson, D.C., McCarthy, W.O., Rodgers, J.L.
A method is outlined which augments and modifies the Logan and King optimum solution of the processing plant location problem to give a number of near optimum solutions. Policy-makers can then...