"They Changed the Rules": Farm Family Responses to Agricultural Deregulation in Southland, New Zealand |
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| Authors: | OLIVIA WILSON |
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| Institution: | Department of Physical Education, Sport and Leisure, Bedford College of Higher Education, 37 Lansdowne Road, Bedford, UK, MR40 2BZ. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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