Record Prices For Fat Sheep & Lambs
The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. conducted their usual monthly sale on Tuesday last. Owing to the rain several lots were not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1947
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Ten Sheep to Acre What Irrigation Can Do
A remarkable achievement by an MIA farmer is related by Agricultural Instructor D. A. Crosby--a son, by the way, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Urangeline Wheat Growers Decide To Carry On
At a well attended meeting of the Urangeline branch of the Wheatgrowers' Union it was decided to carry on the branch…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Stabilisation Country Party Policy Re-stated
The annual general conference of the Country Party in Sydney resolved to continue to fight for an equitable wheat stabilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Production Increasing Kiewa’s Encouraging Report
At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Kiewa butter factory, Mr J. Quirk, chairman, said that in the six months under review…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sowing Wheat by Plane London
In an attempt to beat the hold-up caused by the weather, Mr T. W. Tomkins, a farmer of Northamptonshire, intends to sow 50 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Sown From Air by English Farmer London
Ministry of Agriculture experts yesterday watched a Northamptonshire famer, Mr T. W. Tomkins, sow 20 acres of a 400-acre field with wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Believe Wheat Prices Will Fall Melbourne
Forecasts that the bottom would again fall out of the wheat market as it did a few years after World War I. were made at the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →200 Farmers “Holding Out”
On March 20 annual stock and crop questionnaires were sent to 450 landholders about Albury, to be filled and returned to Albury police station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer Pleased With Plane as Seeder LONDON
Mr T. W. Tomkins, farmer of Northamptonshire. is so pleased at the result of his sowing 50 acres acres with wheat from an aeroplane that he intends to use the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Losses Higher Than First Estimate LONDON
Hill farmers in Derbyshire, now that they have been able to reach the more remote parts of the moors, find that their estimates of sheep losses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Wheat Scheme Endorsed by Country Party
A wheat stabilisation plan with guaranteed minimum price was approved by the annual conference of the Country Party of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sky-high Prices for Cattle in Adelaide Adelaide
Prices for cattle at Adelaide abattoirs market to-day were pounds higher than those ruling at last [?] before the meat dispute which has just been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Perplexed by Wheat Deal Liberal Candidates’ Queries SYDNEY
“While Australian wheat was being sold to New Zealand at 5/9 a bushel, New Zealand farmers were being urged to grow more wheat at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Americans Win on Wool Price Rise Now Likely London
United States delegates to the International Wool Study Group won the first round of the struggle to raise the price of wool, reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cutlets May Be 2/5 a Lb. High Prices for Lambs and Sheep Melbourne
Mutton and [?] will cost [?] above the Commonwealth fixed [?] in many Melbourne [?] shops this week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Prices Well Above Ceiling MELEOURNE
There was a heavy yarding of beef cattle at Newmarket today and prices while averaging between £2 10/ and £3 10/ above filing did not reach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moree to Become Wool Selling Centre CANBERRA
A commitee of experts, headed [?] the vice-president of the Execu[?] Council (Mr Scully) will visit Mo[?] next week with a view to establish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.Z. Wheat Agreement Attacked “Confidence of Growers Weakened” Melbourne
The Federal Government’s policy in connection with the New Zealand Wheat Agreement was attacked by the president of the Wheat and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Wheat Plan in Jeopardy” Minister Warns of Low Prices a Head Melbourne
Unless the South Australian Act was amended or South Australian growers could be pers[?]ded to reverse their decision on the wheal…
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