Sheep Shearing Competition at Royal Show Sydney
For the first time at the Royal Easter Show a championship sheep shearing competition is to be conducted by the Royal Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1947
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Expect Wool Prices to Level Off New York
The Boston correspondent of the “New York Journal of Commerce” says that woollen manufacturers, who acquired rather heavy stocks of foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Scheme May Go Sequel to Adverse S.A. Vote CANBERRA
Unless some alternative plan acceptable to South Australian growers can be found, the Federal Government’s wheat stabilisation scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Return From Canadian Grain Crops Ottawa
In the first official estimate of grain production in Canada in 1940, the wheal crop is placed at 440,507,000 bushels, or about 135,000,000 bushels more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter and Meat May Be Further Rationed Chifley Determined to Keep Up Supplies to Britain Sydney
With a widespread drought in mast pang of the Commonwealth, the nation’s food position is reaching a serious stage. Unless rain falls soon,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Wounded in Gun Duel Farmer, Also Wounded, Taken Into Custody BRISBANE
Investigating a complaint that a man was training a rifle on people in busy Victoria St., Warwick, yesterday afternoon, Constable Alfred John…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SAYS I.T.O. Will Hit Farmers Canberra
The International Trade Organisation Charter to which Australia had tacitly agreed at a preparatory committee conference in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cr, Webb’s Sudden Death Yesterday Collapses on Farm at Lavington
While at work on his Lavington farm yesterday morning Mr. Alfred James Webb, aged 47 years, of Recreation Road, collapsed from a heart…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Sale
YOUNG HUSBAND LTD. report hav-ing held a special sheep sale at Deniliquin on Thursday, 30th January. They submitted 9739 district bred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Sheep Sale
GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & CO. LTD. report having conducted their special store sheep sale at Forbes on January 23, 1947. when 26,000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Yield Down 25 Million Bushels Canberra
Estimated Australian wheat production for 1946-47 season will be nearly 25 million [?] below the 1945-46 harvest of 142 million…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Average Wool Prices Not So High” SYDNEY
Today’s wool prices are not on the highest levels ever recorded, says Winchcombe Carson’s report, In 1924-25, the average price secured for greasy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Price Slump Within 12 Months Possible Production Expected to Rise Above Demand Official View Given To State Ministers CANBERRA
A big slump in wheat prices is anticipated in less than two years’ time. Depression might even occur within the next 12 months. This is the official view in authoritative Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minister Warns Farmers of Possible Slump Sales On Overseas Markets CANBERRA
The Minister for Commerce (Mr Pollard) today issued a warning to primary producers against a possible future slump on the overseas markets. Opening the annual .meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council here today, Mr Pollard said that although at present Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fruit Crops Threatened by Pest Fly Adelaide
A serious threat to the South Australian fruit crop this year has developed with the discovery of more widely spread infection of fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Farmer Secretary of A.N.A. Charged Melbourne
Following lengthy investigations into the allegations of discrepancies in the accounts of the Australian Natives’ Association, Jahn Saunders Parker, aged 45,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A World Farmers’ Federation
Since its conception, three years ago, of an International Federation of Agricultural Producers, after a delegation of its members had, poured Australia, the National Farmers’ Union of England has had considerable success. The Second conference of the Federation will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Meet at Tallangatta
Delegates of the North Eastern District Council of the Victorian Dairymen’s Association from Wodonga. Kiewa, Walwa, Corryong, Eskdale and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairymen Make £1500 a Year Appointment BRISBANE
Mr. R. H. Francis, Melbourne, has been appointed secretary of Queensland Dairymen’s Organisation at a salary of £1500 a year, president of organisation (Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Shot by Police Dies BRISBANE
Albert Burgess, aged 33, farmer, of Elbow Valley, who was shot after he had wounded a policeman at Warwick on Saturday, died in Warwick…
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