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Intro to Topic · New Zealand wool industry

Golden age in the 1950s.

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Problem · Decline in wool production and profitability

Details of Problem · Competition from synthetics

Downward pressure on prices of "strong wool."

Solution · Improve productivity to improve profitability

Productivity can be improved by adopting the best management and breeding practices.

Solution · Better farm management

Status Quo · Producers are divided

Professional farms achieve high profitability. Family farms do not. Hooking this back to the previous paragraph, presumably the idea is that the family farms can learn management practices from the professionals.

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Solution · Establish commercial genetic research company

Not to increase wool processing efficiency. Instead, to focus on producing better quality wool more cheaply.

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We can’t predict the correct answer just based on the question stem. Let’s keep in mind that the author recommend better farm management and genetic research as ways to improve the productivity of wool farms in New Zealand.

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We don’t have evidence the author approves of competition. Competition is simply something that occurred that reduced the price of wool and reduced wool production.

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We don’t have evidence the author approves of changes in land use. The author notes that changes have occurred as a result of the decline in wool price, but there’s no indication the author endorses the changes in land use.

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If anything, the author might disapprove of these practices, because they don’t lead to the most productivity. The author wants better farm management and more wool production. She probably wouldn’t want farmers to be willing to have less production in order to maintain their lifestyle.

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If anything, the author might disapprove of these efforts, because those efforts would be better spent on trying to reduce the cost of producing raw wool or on improving the quality of wool.

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There’s evidence the author implicitly approves of these practices, because the author cites the most profitable wool farms as a positive example of what can be achieved with better farm management. The author wants family farmers and other less productive farms to adopt better farm management so that they can achieve productivity more like that of the most profitable farms.

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