Wool Price Climb "Shocking"
With a growing world-wide demand for wool and the supply dropping, a rise in prices on the Australian market had been…
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Farming & the land, 1950
1,829 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 66 of 92
Fire Destroys Wool Shed
A fire yesterday in a shed at Y[?]an, in the north-west at New South Wales destroyed wool valued at £11,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prison for Theft of Cattle Walcha Case
ARMIDALE: Samuel Oliver Wild (35), a Walcha grazier, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Buys One- Third of Our Wool
The United Kingdom, the largest purchaser of Australian wool last year, paid one-third of the wool cheque. Australia’s greasy wool cheque for 1949-50 was worth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Who Makes Wool Values? Present Market Aspects
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—The extraordinary rise in the wool market even gave surprise to some of the optimists. Values for the raw…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Farm Championship Judging
The district dairy officer (Mr. E. G. McLaren) announced to-day that a field day will be held at the Seaham property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-j.o. Plan for Wool Minister's Announcement. CANBERRA
The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, appealed to woolgrowers to study closely the post-J.O. plan of reserve prices…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Will 40 Hours Week Affect Dairy Profits?
Possible dangers of the application of a 40 hour week to the dairying industry were outlined by the acting president of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Linseed Crop Competition
The Royal Agricultural Society is conducting the 1950 championship linseed crop growing competition. Upper Hunter has its own…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Executive Meeting
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the M.Z.D.C. was held in Sydney on Thursday last, 31st ult…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmers' Schools To Be Held At Wagga Agricultural College
The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) announced yesterday that he had decided to hold a school for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Company’s Veterinary Service
“The subsidised veterinary service of the Hunter Valley Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd. is giving increasing benefit to farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Doctors Worried Over The Dairy Cow
Discussing the “achievements” of dairy cattle breeders over the past few decades, the sober British medical journal, “Lancet,”…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field Day at Seaham, Sept. 15 Mr. W. Brooks In State of Dairy Contest
A field day on the property of Mr. W. Brooks, at Seaham, on Friday week, September 15, commencing at 10 a.m., should attract interest. Difficulties caused by heavy rain and floods, hampered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Distribution of Dairying Industry Queensland and Victoria Maintain Lead Over N.S.W.
There are 23,000 dairy farmers in Queensland, 22,777 in Victoria, 18,196 in New South Wales, 13,453 in South Australia, 6161 in Tasmania and about 5000 in West Australia—83,589 in all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader: Stability In Dairying British Trade Grows Within Commonwealth
LONDON, Sept. 8.—Trade, with the Commonwealth had been the cornerstone of Britain’s recovery programme, the Board of Trade President, Mr. Harold Wilson, said last night at Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stability In Dairying
THERE is not sufficient stability in the dairying industry to encourage that degree of long-range planning as will gear the machinery to produce what the country will expect of it in the years ahead…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming Notes From All Parts
THE AUSTRALIAN Agricultural Council will represent to the State and Commonwealth Governments that £15,000 be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory
The annual meeting of shareholders of the above Company will be held at the Globe Cafe to-day, Saturday, at 10 a.m. The usual business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Was 6d, PORK 2d Per Lb. The Book of Time Opens Page At Maitland, 1898
In Maitland, pork wag 2d to 3d a pound, five pigs 5/ each, butter 6d to 8d a pound, and eggs 5½d a dozen. Steamer fare from Newcastle to Sydney, steerage, was 2/6. Yes, it is true, but it was away back in 1898…
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