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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1952

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Tax on new wheat crop

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wed,: Australian wheat harvest just completed, and the one about to be sown would still be subject to export tax, Mr…

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More butter in border areas

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 11

White other areas of N.S.W. have experienced declines in milk and butter production during past years, border district farmers have gained increases. This was disclosed…

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Butter up to 3/9½?

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wed.: A rise in the price of butter to 3/9½ per lb in July was predicted by the Adelaide Dairy Authority today…

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Smallest peace-time wheat sowing

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The smallest wheat crop in any peacetime year since 1920 will he sown this year,…

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Albury wool prices down yesterday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 1

Wool prices followed the current downward trend at the Albury sale yesterday. Top price realised was 105¼d for six bales of super-fine Merino wool branded OD from Mullengandra Estate, Mullengandra. Fifteen thousand bales,…

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All wheat necessary “if the Govt. lifted controls”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 2

Formers would prepuce all the wheat Australia needed if the Federal Government lifted controls, chairman of Farmers and Grosser’ Coop. Ltd, (Mr, G. D. Bassett, M.L.C.) sold in Albury last night. Wheat production would reach the 1947-48 peak of 220 million…

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Australia’s Youngest Wool Buyer Says Albury Girls Better Than Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 11

Australia’s youngest woo! buyer lost night said Albury girls were better than those in Melbourne. He is 16-year-old CHARLIE CHRISTIE, of…

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Farmers and Graziers’ Co. to Expand

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 2

Farmers and Graziers’ Co-op. Co. are considering a substantial increase in the size of their bulk store in Townsend st. The…

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The Butter Question

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 7

There has been a proposal to import an initial shipment of 5000 tons of New Zealand butter, because of an alleged shortage…

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Wool Values Easier

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 2

Wool values, particularly of better class merinos, were sagging' a little when the eleventh series of sales, closed in Sydney. Yet there…

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“Farmer only gets 1/- back on each bushel of wheat”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The price farmers are paid for wheat would be the main reason for a decrease in acreage…

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Erina University Pastoral College [?]thusiastic Meeting At Narrandera

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 3

[?]ROXIMATELY 40 delegates attended a meeting [?]lled by Dr. Merrylees to discuss the proposal to [?]a Riverina University Pastoral College some[?] the Riverina. The location will be a matter for…

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Wheat Board plans vetoed by Minister

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr McEwen) had vetoed plans by the Australian Wheat Board to cease…

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A.I.S. swing will boost butter production

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 6

According to a Melbourne report last week dairymen throughout Australia are turning for increased production more and more toward the Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cow. Over the post two years…

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Dairymen Will Aid Burnt-out Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 6

District dairymen will give personal aid to burnt-out farmers in the Wodonga area, the annual meeting of the Albury…

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Move to obtain feed wheat for new pig raisers

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 10

CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr McEwen) told Mr Fa[?] (CP, NSW) in the House of…

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Culcairn Farmers Want Abolition of Provisional Tax

The Observer · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 1

Members of the Culcairn F. & S. Association, at the annual meeting held this week, decided to forward the following resolution to the District Council: "That the Federal Government be urged to review…

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Union Head’s “Solution” for Farm Production Lag: Pay Rural Workers Higher Wages

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The solution of food production problems did not lie in Australians “fighting their belt,” but in granting farm workers a wage comparable to that paid secondary industry, president of the A.C.T.U., Mr. Albert Monk, said today…

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Minister warns butter ‘racketeers’

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Action would be taken against “speculators and racketeers” during the butter crisis, the Prices Minister (Mr Finnan) said today…

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It was Kiewa Valley Young Farmers big day yesterday (By Our Own Reporter)

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 4

Children and their animal pets had a grand time yesterday, when, at Kergunyah, the Kiewa Volley Young Farmers conducted their annual field day, Almost 2000 people…

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