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Farming & the land, 1969

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J. Alexander dry wheat competition winner

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 1

Berrigan A and it Society dry wheat crop competition for 1969 wm won by Mr J. Alexander of Leniston, with…

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Fifty more Coleambally farms

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1969 · page 2

Applications for 50 large area farms in the Coleambally Irrigation Area have been invited by the Water…

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Wheat Ouota Increase

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1969 · page 3

Of the wheat quota appeals so far considered by the review committee, about half have been recommended for…

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Black Market Wheat Details

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 2 December 1969 · page 2

Details of an interstate buying organisation to trade in black market wheat were supplied to the Federal…

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JERILDERIE Graziers Discuss Wool, Wheat and Rail problems

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1969 · page 7

At one of the best offended meetings of the Graziers Association, Jerilderie, many items of discussed and included suggestions that Government Departments use more wool, request…

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Four Tocumwal farms now available

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 9 December 1969 · page 6

Four farms within the Berriquin Irrigation District are now available for application by way of Settlement Purchase. This was announced this week by the Minister for Lands, (Mr Tom Lewis}…

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Wheat Worries Continue

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1969 · page 6

Following a tour of 20 Riverina centres in the past 14 days Mr A. J. Grassby, Member for Riverina, said wheat worries continued to be the main concern…

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The Big Wheat Wait

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1969 · page 6

Daily, dozens of trucks of all descriptions stand in long rows outside what storages in the district…

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Big Wheat Sale: Too late to relieve storage problem

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1969 · page 2

The sale of 90.3 million bushels of wheat to the People’s Republic of China is too late to relieve the…

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Progress in dairy legislation

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1969 · page 1

Speaking in Sydney recently, the Minister for Agriculture said the first draft of legislation to set…

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Wheat in your petrol

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1969 · page 1

“I don’t know whether it’s practical, but I do know we must start somewhere’, said a Victorian delegate to the…

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Unbearable dust at wheat storage

The Berrigan Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1969 · page 1

Wheat dust at the new bulk wheat storage at Berrigan, mixed with malathion is making working conditions inside the storage most unpleasant, to put it mildly. The lack of appropriate machinery…

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