The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export commodity. Farming exports' importance, together with the need to diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the UK, makes liberalising agricultural...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Coming Together to Work Collectively -- Chapter 3: Struggling Towards a Unified Organisation -- Chapter 4: Emerging from wartime conditions -- Chapter 5: Impact nationally and internationally -- Chapter 6: Farming anxieties and a more favourable Government...