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Farming & the land, 1960

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Sheep Sales Lapse

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1960 · page 1

Except for a few scattered showers in Riverina and the Southwest Slopes, dry conditions persisted throughout the western…

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Wheat Rail Freights

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1960 · page 1

Country Party leaders in the Legislative Assembly suggested two ways in which the “burden of increased rail freights” on wheatgrowers could be “cushioned.” The suggestions were made in…

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Confident Wool Outlook

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1960 · page 9

In Bradford, Dal[?] correspondent summ[?] the outlook at ver[?] con[?]dent Futures were unchanged on…

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No Fears for Wool

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1960 · page 10

From London, Dalgetys commented that synthetics have been increasing in usage at a much higher rate, but the old bogey of their replacing wool is long out-dated…

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Wool Sales Level and Brighten

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 March 1960 · page 9

Wool values levelled out last week after 25 selling weeks of erosion which clipped 10.8 per cent of the opening values of the season; values of average 64s have been marked down from 122d clean to 108d…

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Riverina Cattle Buyers Compete

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 March 1960 · page 7

Meatworks in North Queensland have re-opened for export, southern buyers are operating at Queensland auctions, and the cattle shorage is showing no signs of appeasement…

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Wool in Bigger Demand

The Pastoral Times · Friday 18 March 1960 · page 8

Booming economy in West and East Europe, and particularly in the “Common Market bloc”, has become the dominating influence in Australian wool markets. After seven weeks of…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 8

Dennys, Lascelles Limited report that the eighth catalogue wool sale in Melbourne this week was a success…

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Wool Festivals

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 3

Wool Festivals sponsored by the Australian Wool Bureau in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania this month, have…

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Uptrend for Wool Prices

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 7

Wool prices continued in steady uptrend last week at Newcastle, Goulburn Adelaide and in South Africa, under strong, evenly balanced buying orders from Bradford, Japan and the East and West Continent…

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Rain Needed for Crop Sowing

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 1

General rain is urgently needed to enable farmers to sow crops to ensure winter and spring feed, the need extends over most of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria…

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Recommended Wheat for Sowing in Riverina

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1960 · page 7

The standing advisory committee on wheat, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, has made the…

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Sheep Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 April 1960 · page 5

The Deniliquin Associated Agents report having held their usual Fortnightly Sheep Sale on Thursday, when 3,3326 Fat…

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Wool Slump in Japan

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 April 1960 · page 7

In Japan, the Government’s decision to place wool imports on the automatic, approval list from April 1, 1961 is having…

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Avid Wool Buying Lifts Prices

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 April 1960 · page 5

Avid buying by East and [?]contimentals, strongly countered by Bradford an [?] and stimulated by a sharp revival in activity [?] mills at Sydney and Geelong this week, gave [?]their best all round…

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Wool Sales

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 April 1960 · page 8

The Geelong Wool Brokers’ Association reports that at the eighth series of wool sales in the 1959/60 Season held on…

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Wool Carnival

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 April 1960 · page 1

Lovely model, Ingrid Barr of Avalon, fixes the time for the first showing of wool fashions in the Wool Carnival at…

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Drainage of Rice Crops

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 April 1960 · page 6

Many inquiries have been received during the last few days as to the correct time to drain Rice Crops, states Mr…

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Co-op. Farmers & Graziers Take Over Meatworks

The Pastoral Times · Friday 8 April 1960 · page 6

The Co-operative Farmers’ and Graziers’ Direct Meat Supply Limited has just completed an option on a £450,000 abattoirs at Brooklyn. The property, some 7 miles from Melbourne,…

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Sheep Dog Trials

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1960 · page 5

At the Corowa sheep dog trials held recently, Mr J. Gorman’s dog “Jock,” worked by Mr B. O’Kane, took sixth place…

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