Monthly Crop Report Berrigan District
Reporting for August Mr. D. F. Keely, agronomist, states:--SEASONAL CONDITIONS. Once again the rainfall at all…
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Aiding Soldier Farmers Plan to Cut Land Cost
A Liberal N.S.W. Government would meet the difference between the price paid for resumed soldier settlement land and…
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On Tuesday, 31st August, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd brought forward a catalogue totalling…
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CANBERRA, Wed.: The Australian Wheat Board in the last few weeks sold between 10 and 12 million bushels of wheat…
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OTTAWA, Thurs.: Canada has been hit by what one of its senior grain experts describes as âone its most severe boutsâ of wheat…
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SYDNEY. Thurs.: The world demand for wool was outspring production despite the devoplment of synthetics…
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Even with the good early September rain, spring prospects were not as good as last year, said the District…
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Excellent rain early this month had improved a pasture and crop position that had been deteriorating badly…
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CANBERRA. Fir.: The Commonwealth Government will set up an expert panel to report on the practicability of air transport of…
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Electricity is the most complete answer to adequate and automatic water supplies to all parts of the farm, Mr J. R. Lloyd, electricity officer of the NSW Department of Agriculture says. Where electricity is available it is no…
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The following dairy herds in North-East Victoria have been declared free of tuberculosis under the accrodite tubercle-free herd…
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There has been a pronounced swing to dairy farming as a method of land use in the Central Murray Valley. This is revealed in a…
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MERINO Wool, the main produce of this district, made one of the outstanding exhibits of the show. Another outstanding exhibit was the poultry and bantams section, where improvement was noted in the quantity, as…
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DARWIN, Mon.. About £10,000 worth of cattle have been killed this year through gidyia poisoning on stations north-east of Alice…
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Mr. R. T. Balderstone, Aratula North, again secured top price at yesterdayâs fortnightly cattle sale with a consignment…
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The opening wool sales in Sydney last week were watched with unusual interest, not only by graziers whose income is direct…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Merino wools sold of rates equal to those at the seasonâs opening soles in Sydney, and at Brisbane when the first Melbourne wool sales opened today…
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About 3½ million acres were sown to wheat for all purposes in New South Wales this year, says the Department of…
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FAVOURED with a perfect day for the opening session on Friday, and fine, but slightly overcast and wind weather on Saturday, the Eighty second Hay Show on Friday and Saturday last was a great success. Horses were the main item in the show, the standard in the ring, both as to…
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The Associated Agents held their weekly cattle market at Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 1464 cattle, comprising 534 fats, 400 choppers, [?]…
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