Wool Shipments Resumed
The Nellore left Newcastle early this morning for Japan, via Sydney, with 1300 bales of wool—the first shipment to leave in nearly two…
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Farming & the land, 1949
725 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 37
Cabinet Accepts £1½M. Cattle Plan
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Cabinet to-night approved plans for the development of the cattle industry in northern Australia, to increase beef output by about 10,000 tons a year, costing about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fat Cattle Awards To Scone AT R.A.S.
SYDNEY: Lumbering fat cattle took the stage today for the opening scene of Sydney's 1949 Royal Easter Show. The fudging was the first…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Demonstration Farm Plantings
Farms chosen for demonstrartion in connection with the State Government's annual grant to boost dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Dispute Between Wool Agency, Union
SYDNEY, Friday.—A dispute between members of the Storemen and Packers' Union and a wool brokerage agency might lead to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America To Learn About Wool
Hundreds of thousands of American school-children will be learning this year that a "station" means an Australian ranch and that a merino is a sheep, not a South American Indian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Prices Down
SYDNEY, Monday,—Although the wool market to-day generally displayed a better tone than at the closing rates in Brisbane last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Wool Body Recommended
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—An organisation embracing Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom, in partnership…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →UK Aid Boosts Cattle Prices; New Records
SYDNEY: An Australian record price of 1150 gns. for a shorthorn heifer was paid today at the Sydney stock sales. The record was made at an auction by Dalgety and Co. Ltd., on behalf of Messrs. Lithgow and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Values Down Another 10 p.c
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Wool values for practically all descriptions again tended in buyers' favour today and, in many instances, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butter Production Increases
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Australia's butter production recovered slightly in February after the December-January slump…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Values Unchanged
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although there was keen and more general competition at to-day's closing wool auctions of the week,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Decline "Pointer To More Stability"
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The decline in the price of wool at recent sales should be regarded by Australia as an indication that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Sorghum Crop Likely At Peak Downs
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A one million bushel crop of sorghum is expected from 30,000 acres planted at Peak Downs to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Buyer For 200 Cattle
DARWIN, Thursday.—An outback station owner who brought 200 head of cattle 170 miles to the main road at Mataranka has turned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Competitions "Aid To Dairy Farming"
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Competitions and exhibitions were tha only true tests of raising the standard of primary products, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmer Competition
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Gregory McFaul, 18, of Central Tilba, near Bega, was to-night selected as winner of the Australasian junior farm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Excellent Prospects For Wheat
SYDNEY: Present outlook for the coming wheat season is very satisfactory, according to the April crop report released…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →41 Nations Sign Wheat Pact
WASHINGTON, April 17. A.A.P.—When the time for doing so expired yesterday 41 nations had signed the international wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Average Wool Prices Up In March
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The average price of wool sold in March, 1949, was more than 1/ a lb. higher than in March, 1948. The average is…
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