New Date for Wheat Talks
CANBERRA, Thurs.: The Commonwealth is seeking an alternative date for the proposed meeting of State Agriculture Ministers to…
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Will Not Attend Talks on Wheat
ADELAIDE, Thurs.: South Australia will not be represented at the meeting of Agricultural Ministers in Melbourne later this…
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IT was stated at a meeting of the Pastures Protection Board yesterday that a number of cattle had died recently from exhaustion after long train journeys to Hay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corowa District Crop Competition
The following report covers a the Wheat Crop Competition conducted by the P. A. & H. Society this year, and in tender…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Laborer sentenced to death for murder of farmer
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Sydney Owen Meredith was sentenced to death in the Ballarat Supreme Court today by Mr. Justice OâBryan for the murder for James Joseph OâMeara, 73, single, farmer, of âShannon Park,â Pittong,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fears U.s. Will Dump Farm Products
LONDON, Thurs.: The news that the American Government has allotted 55 million dollars for the purchase of surplus…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Drought causes butter drop
BRISBANE, Fri.: Queensland dairying areas and sheeplands in south-west central-west and north-west, are feeling the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Commercial Wagga Sheep Market
The Associated Agents of Wagga held their weekly sheep market on Thursday, when 12,834 head were yarded, comprising 9980 fats and…
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Yorkshire firms are being invited to fulfil a £250,000 order for raw wool and wool tops from Eastern Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Little interest shown in this week’s cattle sales
Interest in store cattle this week was still at low ebb, the only sales rostered in New South Wales being comparatively small…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New wheat may be answer to rust epidemic
OTTAWA, Fri.: A tiny new wheat seed which may save growers millions of dollars in the event of a rust epidemic…
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NEW YORK. Sun.: Mr. Otway Falkiner. MLC, said yesterday that Australia was perhaps even more alarmed at the state…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral Summer in N.S.W. Sound
Though pastures have begun to burn off, most districts in N.S.W. are experiencing a safe grazing summer…
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The Acting Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Senator McLeay). announced today that the, costs of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →173 million bushels of wheat this season
CANBERRA, Mon.: The 1953/54 Australian, wheat harvest is expected to produce about 173,500,000 bushels—an average of 17…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Cheque Up £22 Million for 5 Months
SYDNEY, Mon.: Australia’s wool cheque for the first five months of the current season was over £22 million more than for the same period of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Seek Sheep Expert for Peru
SYDNEY, Tues.: Merino sheepbreeders in Peru are keen to employ an Australian sheep expert for two years to assist them in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury wool cheque £1,700,000
More than £1,709,833 was paid for 18,000 bales of wool at the Albury wool sales on December 2 and 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Wheat Harvest
MELBOURNE, Wed.: The new wheat crop had reached a mature stage over half the State’s wheat-producing area and about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yerong Creek formers win wheat championship
SYDNEY; Wed.: A crop of Celebration, estimated yield 45 bushels to the acre, grown by T. E. Gorman Sons, of “Fairfield,” Yerong Creek, won the R.A.S. field wheat championship for the Southern Slopes…
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