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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

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Crops Of Freaks may Follow Atom Bombing

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 1

BOSTON, Wednesday.—The first generation of survivors of the atom bombing may include a crop of freaks, according to a…

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Strike Threat By Tweed Farmers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Tyalgum branch of the Tweed District Council of primary producers union has threatened to withhold…

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U.K. Dairymen Face Charges Of Butter Price Manipulation

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun.—Including the president, Henry Rathburn, four executive members of the Dairymen's League Co-operative…

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Junior Farmers' Speaking Contest

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 3

To encourage the art of self-expression among junior farmers, the Junior Farmers' Club Council conducted a radio speaking contest. The above picture shows the winning team from Crookwell Griffith was second and Raymond Terrace third…

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Minister Wants Dairy Inquiry

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 5

The Federal Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Pollard) had intimated that he desired the Dairy Industry Advisory Committee to…

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No Market For New England Pea Crops

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

New England pea growers have been severely hit by early crops, which poured into has Sydney markets from other districts…

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Butter Production At Kyogle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 3

Although conditions throughout the dairying sections of Kyogle cannot be described as drought stricken they are such as to limit…

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Canada To Import New Zealand Butter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

OTTAWA, Wed.—The Canadian Government is reported, to have decided to import butter from New Zealand, probably in…

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Junior Farmer Team Touring North Coast

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

The winning team of the recently conducted Junior Farmer Radio Speaking Contest will commence a conducted…

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R.a.s. Dairy Produce Section

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 4

The Royal Agricultural Society in framing its schedule for the dairy produce section for the first post-war Show to be held this…

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Record Wool Price

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 5

LAUNCESTON, Wed.—A new Australian, and probably a world record price for wool, was established at the sales at Launceston…

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Dairy Production Below Normal

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 3

A SURVEY of milk and dairy production figures at Grafton and Ulmarra, the latter centre factory reflecting the Lower Clarence position, discloses substantially depleted returns compared with figures in a good season…

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Fairbridge Farm Boys Study Map Of Canada

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 1

These boys of the Fairbridge Farm Preparation School in Britain are studying a map of Canada before their departure for the Farm School on Vancouver Island…

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Farmers' Thanks to Factory Manager

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 2

Members of the Woodford Dale branch of the P.P.U. have written to Mr. A. Hart expressing their sincere appreciation of the…

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Houses And Crops Damage In Severe Storm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 3

HAIL damage during a storm early yesterday afternoon was severe in the Water view and Winegrove districts. Windows were broken in two houses and maize crops were stripped…

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Canadian Request For Butter Granted

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.—Britain has granted a pressing Canadian, request for 6000 tons of Australian and/or New Zealand butter. This…

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Horses Valuable Despite Farm Mechanisation

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 6

OTTAWA: Those who may entertain the idea that the horse will eventually become obsolete as a source of farm power in…

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Upper Copmanhurst Crops

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

The last of the potato crops have been forwarded from Upper Copmanhurst. The average yields were good…

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Dairy Industry Award Rates

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

The Dairying Industry Award was made on June 25, 1943, by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, under…

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Visiting Junior Farmer Says Grafton Paradise

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 3

F"FROM what I have seen of Grafton I think it is a paradise," said Geoff Leary, a member of the Crookwell Junior Farmers' Club, at Grafton on Saturday. The Crookwell Club won a…

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