What happened to haystacks & horses? : changes in New Zealand agriculture during the last half of the 20th century / Garrick Batten.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323 p.).

Farmer Bill : a novel -- Snapshots and snippets stocktake.

New Zealand agriculture has seen huge changes in the period from the end of WWII to the 2000 Millenium. Mechanisation, new products, new plants and animals, and changing financial fortunes. Technical and management changes on farms and political and economic influences off it. Horses were replaced by tractors and trucks, haystacks by barns and bales. Urban attitudes to farming changed. However it is still the essential base to our economy and place in the world. Changes in this era of New Zealand farming history are covered in two distinct ways in this book. Part One is the fictional life story of a typical pastoral farmer through a career starting as a shepherd in the 1950s and retiring from farming in the new Millenium. He was just an ordinary farmer like thousands of others, not especially notable or noteworthy, but who was part of the ongoing platform of the relative prosperity of the period. Part Two covers specific changes with snapshots and snippets of many topic areas. These are broadly grouped into main subjects, and also cross-referenced. This is not an exhaustive record but a collection of significant changes that directly and indirectly affected a typical farmer.