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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

778 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 32 of 39

District Pastoral Outlook Brighter

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1947 · page 2

In a survey by the Department of Agriculture, concern was expressed at the pastoral outlook in the Clarence district at the end of…

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Progressive Farmer Divisional Winners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 October 1947 · page 3

BELLINGEN.—At the Clarence Divisional conference of the Agricultural Bureau, held informally at the field day on…

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Dairying Experts To Visit Australia

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon—Two New Zealand dairying experts will arrive in Australia this week to confer with specialist dairying…

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Poultry Farmers Begin "Strike"

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Poultry farmers throughout the State commenced their two weeks' "strike" to-day when they…

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Cornsacks for Wheat

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tues.—Australia's imports of 130,000 tons of jute from India during the current year would be sufficient to…

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Dairy Industry To Be Shackled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 October 1947 · page 2

"WITH big guns trained on the Canberra bank grab, and public interest focussed on the battle now being waged on that issue, the Federal Government is taking advantage of the people's preoccupation by introducing further large-scale doses of socialism…

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Contribution Towards Dairying Production

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Interest free loan's for farm mechanisation, storage and feeding facilities would be a permanent and…

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Desperate Fight To Save Crops From Grasshoppers

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—A Movietone newsman, Mr. Syd Wood, who has just travelled 700 miles through the grasshopper infested districts…

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New Director Elected Dairy Coy. Ballot

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 31 October 1947 · page 1

Messrs. P. A. Wright, R. J. Noble and W. Winkley were electas directors of the Dorrigo Co-operative Dairy Coy., as a result…

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Banking Bill Debate Provision For Farmers When Prices Drop

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 October 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.—Mr. Aderman (C.P., Qld.) to-day sought an assurance that the Government-controlled banking monopoly would provide for primary producers at a time when world prices dropped below their present level…

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PPU President Lauds Dairy Association

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The formation of a Co-operative Dairy Asscciation of N.S.W. Ltd., at Coff's Harbour last week, was an essential extension of the dairy co-operative movement, said the Genera President of the P.P.U. (Mr, Gibson) to-day…

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Chairman Appointed To Dairy Produce Board

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.—Mr. G. C. Howey, of Colac (Vic), will be appointed chairman of the reconstituted Australian Dairy Produce…

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Reasons For Lower Butter Production

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 November 1947 · page 2

BELLINGEN.—Referring to the drop in butter production of approximately 20 tons on the previous year, to 318.58 tons, Mr. Bealtie, chairman, at the annual meeting of the Bellinger River Co-operative Butter and Bacon Society, said this was no doubt…

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General Rains Prove Mixed Blessing To Wheat Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—General rains of the past few days have improved crops in some parts of the wheat belt by causing grain to fill…

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Dairy Farmer And Apiarist Represent Clarence Area

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 November 1947 · page 4

THOUGH in great contrast, the farming enterprises of the two candidates who will represent the Clarence region in the Progressive Farmer Competition sponsored by the Rural Bank of New South Wales both show the results of careful and enlightened…

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Co-op. Dairy Assn. Is Enthusiastically Received

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 4 November 1947 · page 3

The formation of the Co-operative Dairy Association of NSW Ltd. at the recent conference of 75 delegates of co-op societies at Coffs…

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Couponless Butter By The Ton

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter).—The assertion that one could buy Australian and New Zealand butter almost by…

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N. Zealand Visitors at Bellingen Farm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 2

BELLINGEN, Tues.—Dr. W. M. Hamilton (of the C.S.I.R., New Zealand) and Mr. A. H. Ward (Director of Herd Improvement,…

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No Aust. Butter On Chinese Black Market

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wed.—It was impossible for large quantities of Australian butter to be available for the black market in China…

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Farmers To Hold Soybean Field Day

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 November 1947 · page 5

A soybean field day at which farmers of the district will have an opportunity of seeing the crop in various stages of growth…

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