Notes

Introduction : Farming is forever
Pre-European Farming
The New Crops - Implements and Animals
A Lanky Land
The First European Farmers
Sheep in the Middle Island
Grain and Ingenuity
Unwelcome Immigrants
Refrigerated shipping
Each Day was 'Just so many Trees'
The Dairy Industry
The Great Ideal : Land of One's Own
The Marriage of Farming and Science
The Farmer's War, and the Aftermath
Cast off after Ninety years
Food and the Social Revolution
Opening the World to New Zealand Milk
The Re-emergence of Lamb
The Vagaries of Beef
Deer and Goats
The Fall and Rise of Forests
New Fruit for Old
The Vegetable Business
The Future : a Guessing Game