Junior Farmer Awards
SYDNEY: Gordon Pepper, of Raymond Terrace, and Janet Connerton, of Morisset, tied for first prize in the Hunter River…
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Farming & the land, 1951
1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 87
Important Moves At Junior Farmers' Meeting
The formation of a separate Junior Farmers' District Council at Maitland, and o decision to support a proposal to create a Regional Council in this area, resulted from the quarterly meeting of the Lower Hunter-Lake Macquarie…
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SYDNEY: A 40-hour week in the dairy industry in New South Wales would increase production cost of butter from 3/5 lb. to at least 4/6, an offcial of the Primary Producers’ Union said to-day…
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SYDNEY: Far North Coast dairymen ore likely to withhold supplies of butter and cheese from the N.S.W. market until granted price increases. Lismore dairy farmers decided on this action yesterday,…
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By a two-to-one majority a meeting of 500 Richmond River dairy farmers at Lismore decided to ask co-operative…
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Although milk production in Australia has risen by only one per cent, in the past 12 years our population has grown by 20 per cent, in the same period…
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Although milk production in Australia has risen by only one per cent, in the past 12 years, our population has grown by 20…
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CANBERRA: Three States have asked the Commonwealth Government to fix the wholesale price of butter, on the…
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CANBERRA, Friday—Three States have agreed to raise the price of butter in an effort to break the deadlock between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letterbag Butter Shortage (To the Editor.)
Sir,—May I be permitted to return to the above with quotations from a speech recently made in Federal Parliament by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Position Aspects. Is a Decline Probable?
Winchcombe. Ca[?]n, Ltd., report:—Ampie prjvate enquiry for loc[?] feilmo[?]gerc[?] wools has prevailed, but the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Dairymen's Stand. Sydney
Far North Coast dairymen are likely to withhold supplies of butter and cheese from the New] South Wales market until…
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The potato shortage, suffered a great deal by housewives during the year, is certain to be acute from November onwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Success Of Upper Hunter Junior Farmers
Junior farmers from the Upper Hunter district took part with credit in Judging competitions at the Queensland Royal National…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improved Dairying Suggested
Resources on many dairy farms were capable of being more fully used and efficiency could be greatly increased, said…
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Linseed crops in Australia are not likely to total more than 40,000 acres this year, whereas, if the Commonwealth were to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Claims Dairymen Would Benefit From Debating Soc
Tutor of the Singleton Debating Society, Mr. P. Devlin, said that dairy farmers would benefit to a great extent if they…
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SYDNEY—The Australian Workers' Union is planning a case for an award, including a 40-hour week, for the 60,000 rural workers in New South Wales…
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Branxton is providing a comprehensive programme for junior farmers at its show to be held on October 5 and 6…
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