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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Automatic Four-process Wheat Combine in U.s.a

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 5

NEW HOLLAND, PENNSYLVANIA.--With a big wheat crop to harvest, this American farmer adds an automatic twine…

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Striving To Cut Record Cane Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 2

With cane cutting reduced to a minimum during the flood and wet weather period of about seven weeks, every effort is now being made on Lower Clarence cane farms to get the record cane crop…

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Butter Ration Down; Price Up

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs. (AAP). --Britain's butter ration which has stood temporarily at five ounces per…

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Dorrigo Butter Production High Grading and Packing of Excellent Standard

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 2

Figures recently released show that the Dorrigo Dairy Company manufactured 2,024,279 pounds of butter for the year 1st March, 1949…

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Dorrigo Farmers Win Dairy Contest

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 6

The Dairy Farm Championship Competition for the District Clarence to Bellinger, judged by Mr. H. Harrison, Dairy Officer at Coffs…

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How 39 Pigs Went To Market Ormer Dorrigo Farmer's Marathon

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 6

The farmers living above Thora and on the upper reaches of the river have to devise many schemes and work under very adverse…

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Increased Dairy Production Competition

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 8

Mrs. A. M. Macrae and Sons, of Kelvin Park, Dorrigo, and Mr. A. G. Black, of Matthews Creek, have received congratulatory messages…

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Fodder Donations To Flood-Hit Farmers

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Primary producers in New South Wales and Victoria have given nearly 800 tons of fodder to assist…

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N.z. Butter Price Request Rffused

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 August 1950 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Sun. (AAP-Reuter). -- The United Kingdom Food Ministry has refused New Zealand's request…

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Negotiating Price Of Butter, Cheese

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon.--Unless current problems in negotiations with the United Kingdom are overcome there is a high probability of Australia being obliged to supply Britain with butter and cheese for…

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Wool Market Up By 50 Per cent

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The wool market to-day rose 50 per cent. best descriptions and 40 per cent. for medium and other classes. CROSS-BRED and comeback…

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Handling Record Sugar Crop

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 August 1950 · page 3

Cane cutting and crushing will go on until the end of January next, in order to handle the whole of this year's record sugar crop, said the manager of the Harwood mill (Mr. H. G. Millard) yesterday,…

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Resent View On Butter

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 4

CASINO.--A statement that an increased butter price was not justified was resented by delegates of the Richmond…

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Disappointed On Butter Price Talks

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Australian dairymen were justly disappointed because the British Ministry of Food had failed to appreciate that it should pay a price at least equal to the cost of production for dairy produce, a farmers' official said…

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Wool Prices Continue Buoyant

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Wool prices today maintained yesterday's record levels. The market continued buoyant, and any change in values was in the sellers'…

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Worried at Wool Price Rise

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (AAP).--There were worried men in mill towns of Yorkshire yesterday as a result of the…

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Sees Danger In High Wool Prices

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom (Mr. E. J. Williams) said today that this season's high wool prices could cause a rapid inflation of the Australian economy…

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Farmers Will Not Re "Out Of Pocket"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA. Tues.--Even if the British Ministry of Food fails eventually to agree to pay Australia a price at…

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Junior Farmers At Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 6

MACLEAN.--On Wednesday, Mr. W. N. Dann, took six members of Maclean Junior Farmers' Club to Wollongbar Experiment…

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No Reduction In Farm Potential

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY. Tues.--The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) said to-day that efforts by N.S.W. at the May Canberra conference…

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