Wool Transport Plan
Graziers and wool brokers' agents decided, at a recent meeting at Armidale, to appoint a committee to organise…
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Farming & the land, 1946
705 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 26 of 36
Butter Production in Queensland Halved by Drought
BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The drought has practcally halved Queensland butter production for the first two months of this…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Prolonged drought in the dairying areas of the North Coast and Southern Queensland is expected to reduce…
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MORTALITY among dairy cattle has been increasing while the most severe drought on the Clarence River for 40 years continues with ilttle immediate prospect of relief. Chief stock sufferers were cows…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues.--At the monthly meeting of Coff's Harbour Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Burns said Mr. Don Shand…
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NEWCASTLE, Thurs.--Record prices for Australia for new season wool was paid at Newcastle wool sales, which are in their second day. Buying on behalf of a Swiss firm Mr. Wenz paid 47 34d. for 13…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Herd Deathrate Increasing Weekly On Far North Coast
LISMORE, Thurs.--Unless adequate supplies of fodder are rushed to the Far North Coast, it seems inevitable calamitous stock losses will be experienced. For a long time the position has been serious from the point of view of dwindling cream and milk…
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Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd. report a good yarding of fat stock on Tuesday. Owing to the continued dry weather the…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--N.S.W. might have to import wheat from Victoria this season, said the Minister for Agriculture (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agricultural Crops Declined During War
SYDNEY, Thurs.--Agricultural crops in New South Wales declined generally in the war years, and most crops were smaller this year than in 1939. There were a few increases in that period, but areas under…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--The Director of Rationing, Mr. J. B. Cumming, announced to-night that when the last of the coupons (52),…
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No cattle will be exhibited this year at Kyogle's annual show. Continuing dry conditions forced the cattle section of the Kyogle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmhands To Strike In Japan
TOKIO, Mon.--The all-Japan Agricultural Union has sent out notices calling on 330,000 farmhands to strike, as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will Butter Price Increase Be Passed On?
The official announcement by the Minister, for Commerce and Agriculture that a higher price had been secured from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Few Crops Survive at Narrabri
A wheat buyer who has just completed a tour of the Narrabri district states that he estimates that only six growers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Harvesting Wheat in America
Wheat is a major grain crop in the mid-western, north-western and south-western sections of America. The machines of mechanised farming have speeded up planting and harvesting in the grain belts. One such machine, a caterpillar-drawn combine, which heads, threshes and cleans the grain, is pictured as it moves over a great wheat field in the north-west of…
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In an address on the technical aspect of farm management at a meeting of the Central Council of Northern Farmers' Union, Mr. J…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald (vice-president) yesterday warned members of the P.P.U. Central Executive Council at the quarterly meeting that young people were leaving the dairying industry and would never return. "The dairying industry is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Fear Firebug at Wool Stores
SYDNEY. Thurs. -- Kerosene was poured into a hollow under the door of a five- storey wool stores at Ultimo last night, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Production at Low Ebb P.P.U. Main Worry—to See Cattle Alive and Well Dist. Secretary's Monthly Letter
As I write, the district embodied in this Council is undergoing one of the most trying droughts in its history, states the Raleigh…
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