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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
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The Machinery Crisis, W T. Brown
The Machinery Crisis, W T. Brown
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The machinery crisis - I believe we have come through a crisis in farming efficiency. To maintain his income, the farmer has had to reduce his costs of production, or increase production per man. He has done this by climbing to a new plateau of efficiency, and he expanded or got out; he has substituted capital for labour.
In many cases this means bigger, more powerful machinery. This is not a simple or easy move and there are many potential ways to mske the wrong decision.
Agriculture In Western Australia, A W. Hogstrom
Agriculture In Western Australia, A W. Hogstrom
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
A review of the development of agriculture in Western Australia with an outline of the distribution and importance of present agricultural and pastoral enterprises.
WESTERN Australia's economy has always been largely dominated by its pastoral and agricultural activities.
For short periods gold has given greater annual returns than the products of farms and stations, but these periods have never been very long.
Only in recent years has the value of factory production equalled that of our stations and farms.