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Murray · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1960

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Played Part in Russian Sheep Industry Growth

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 September 1960 · page 2

Russia has bred a large-bodied merino sheep which resulted largely from Australian merino importation in the 1920’s. This was stated in a report by a group of fou[?]…

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Fortnightly Sheep Sale 5’- Dearer

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 7

The Deniliquin Stock and Station Agents’ Association report having held their regular fortnightly sheep sale last…

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£1 Million for Butter and Cheese Producers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 3

Now that final butter and cheese production figures for the 1959 - 60 season had been established, the balance of that season’s undistributed bounty amounting to a little over £1 million, would be passed on to…

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Applications For Dairy farm At Finley Opening

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 3

A soldier settlement farm near Finley will be open for inspection early this week. This was announced today by…

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Two Farms for Soldier Settlers

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 3

Two soldier settlement farms in southern, NSW will be open for application early in September…

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Lalalty Junior Farmers

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 6 September 1960 · page 3

A most sueessful rally was held by the Lalalty Junior Famers on the property of Mr B. W. .Jardine last Saturday…

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Good Selection at Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1960 · page 4

The A.M.L. & F. Co. report having held at Deniliquin a special store cattle Sale last Tuesday, when they yarded…

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Better Tone Introduced At Main Wool Sales With Widened Demand

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1960 · page 10

Entry of the East European countries, and more confident bidding on a wider front by Japan, the Common Market countries and Bradford, induced a better tone in last week’s wool markets at the initial main sales at Brisbane and…

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Diary Farm improvement Comp. Awarded To Deniliquin This Year

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 September 1960 · page 1

First place in the “Country Life” dairy farm improvement, competition for 1959-60 has been awarded in the Deniliquin district. It was won by Messrs…

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[?]Big Yarrawonga Wool Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 September 1960 · page 9

[?] District woolgrowers will [?]ave the opportunity of hear[?]ing two speakers on wool [?]marketing at Yarrawonga…

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J. Farmer Show

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 September 1960 · page 5

Deniliquin and district Junior Farmers will he competing at the Barham Junior Farmers’ second Junior…

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World Consumption Of Wool Up 20 Per-cent In The Last Four Years

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 September 1960 · page 9

Stabilising influences of widening competition and more confident bidding are now becoming apparent in Australian wool markets, and prices at Newcastle, Melbourne and Fremantle last week were generally steady with only…

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South-west Junior Farmer In State Star-award Final Round

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 20 September 1960 · page 1

Barham Junior Farmer, Mr. Jim Macaulay, has who his way into the State final of the Star Junior Farmer competition. The district supervisor…

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Wool Average

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 September 1960 · page 7

At the third series of wool sales held on September 5 to 8, the average price realised for greasy wool was 46.75d. per lb.,…

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Wool Prices

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 September 1960 · page 3

The A.M.L. & F. Co. report a complete clearance was affected of the Lindifferon Dorset set Horn Stud at Deniliquin…

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1960 Field Wheat Competition

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 September 1960 · page 7

An officer of the Department of Agriculture will be appointed to judge entries in the 1960 field wheat…

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Local lifers Attend Wagga Cattle Sale

The Pastoral Times · Friday 23 September 1960 · page 7

Younghusband Limited, Auctioneers, Wagga Wagga, report holding a special cattle sale of 1750 store cattle at…

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Storage Crisis Likely for Wheat Growers

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1960 · page 6

With normal weather between now and harvest, Australia would be faced with coreal handling and storage…

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Above Average Wheat Crops

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 October 1960 · page 5

With favourable conditions, district wheat crops should, be well above average, Mr. P. R. Druitt said last week…

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Wheat Harvest Great Problems

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 October 1960 · page 3

Australia this season could be faced with greater cereal handling and storage problems than ever before in her history…

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