Dairymen's Plight
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Chairman (Mr. W. R. Hindmarsh) said to-day at the annual meeting of the Producers' Cooperative Distributing…
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Farming & the land, 1942
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Dairy Company Hit by Drought
The half-yearly meeting of Raymond Terrace Cooperative Dairy and Produce Co. Ltd. will be held on February 25 at Hexham. The company has had its…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Apple and Pear Crops Below Average
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Federal Government will shortly consider an increase in the present unit price payable to apple and pear growers. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Increased Crop Of Tobacco
CANBERRA.-A 25 per cent. Increase in Australian tobacco production this year Is anticipated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Market for Excess Barley Crop
CANBERRA, Sunday.—If wheat farmers affected by the proposed restriction of acreage over 300 plant an excess area with barley they…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The wheat crop of New South Wales for 1941-42 was about 48,500,000 bushels, approximately double the previous…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The changeover from present-day vegetable market gardening to wide area farming methods introduced by the Ministry…
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Following the successful agitation for an increase in the price of milk, the Federated Milk Producers has appointed a committee to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Market for Pastry Butter
CANBERRA. Thursday.—Certain manufacturers continued to produce a considerable quantity of butter of pastry quality, despite the absence…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Graziers Want More for Wool
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The raising of the minimum price of wool from approximately 13½d to 16d was advocated to-day by a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Make Power Alcohol from Surplus Wheat
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Sites for power alcohol distilleries in New South Wales, South Australia, and Western Australia have been…
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Extensive additions to the store and offices of the New England North and North-west Producers Co. Ltd., Newcastle, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat Growing To Be Restricted
CANBERRA.—Wholesale restrictions of wheat planting might be necessary in some States to avert over-production for which no…
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Sir,—In the removal of coastal cattle, the Government is apparently alive to the first essential—canning crackers and surplus cattle that it…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—Upwards of 1,000,000 head of cattle will be affected by plans for the emergency evacuation of cattle from coastal to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Release Wheat Men for War Work
CANBERRA, Sunday.—It is anticipated that thousands of men will be released for the war effort as a result of a meeting of the Wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farmers Desperate Milk Cut Unless Stock Get Food
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Unless the Federal Government made available immediately offal and other stock foods to dairy farmers there would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and Food for Britain
ADELAIDE, Sunday.—South Australian farmers are anxiously awaiting news regarding possible planting restrictions which may decide their…
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MOSCOW. Feb. 16.—Tass, the official Soviet news agency, has received a report from Lisbon that Spain has secretly agreed to grant Germany…
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Corn has been gathered in Britain and while unfavorable harvesting conditions have certainly dimmed the very bright hopes…
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