Farm incomes
The goods produced on New Zealand’s farms still provide most of the money that the country earns from exports. As well as providing an income for the farmers who produce them, these primary products also help to pay the wages of very many other people, including your teacher. Those who help to transport and process the goods — for example, the driver whose truck carries woo] and the freezing worker who prepares meat for sale — depend especially on the farms for their wages. When New Zealand can sell its primary produce overseas for high prices, farmers can still’receive a good payment for what they grow, even after all the other people involved have had a share. W’hen prices are low, as they are now, there is sometimes not much left for the farmer. That means some farmers will decide to grow less, because the effort of working hard is not worth while, or they will decide not to invest in new
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 7
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162Farm incomes Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33957, 25 September 1975, Page 7
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