When price signals go feral

Authors: Denis Hocking
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2010, Issue N.Z.J.For. 55(1) 2010, pp 32, May 2010
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

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Abstract: There are many big questions to ponder every day - What is the mass of the Higgs boson? What is “dark matter”? What proportion of tomorrow’s mail delivery will be junk mail? However one big question continues to bug me. Why has there been such a division between farming and forestry in New Zealand? I confess to having led a sheltered life here. With a father in Forest Service but all other family in farming, I was about 16 before I discovered that not all farms had woodlots and not all rural kids earned pocket money pruning trees. It was disconcerting. My adolescent peers considered me rather strange.

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