'Ultimatum' To Govt. By Aust. Wheat Board
SYDNEY: The responsibility for a likely crisis in the Australian wheat industry has been thrust on the Federal Government by the Australian Wheat Board. The board has told the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1952
731 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 37
Big Centre To Improve Dairy Herds
The Hunter Valley Cooperative Dairy Company will establish a large artificial insemination centre between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Drop In Dairy Production
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Australian production of milk, butter and cheese in the first five months of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Wool Record To Grower
Mr. D. Fletcher, of Walcha, obtained his first wool record with five bales of greasy merino, which brought the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£5M. Soviet Wool Fund Not Traced
SYDNEY, Wednesday. —Any recent transaction under which an Australian private bank made available £5…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£400 Bank Gift To Junior Farmers
SYDNEY, Wednesday. —The Bank of New South Wales will donate £400 to finance various projects of the Junior…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Firm At Waratah Sale
Prices for prime quality sheep and lambs were firm at recent improved rates at Waratah sale yesterday Plain and inferior…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Improved Wool Prices Hold
Newcastle wool sales closed yesterday with prices generally 5 per cent. up on Sydney rates last week. Brokers said the market…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Concession On Wheat By Railways
SYDNEY, Thursday. —Wheat farmers and the people of New South Wales would benefit by a special reduction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From Darwin, Barry Carlton sent this story of the drought, which when he wrote about it had turned thousands of square miles of cattle country in the Northern Territory almost into desert. Fertile Cattle Land Now Blazing Desert
For months now the sun has blazed down on man, beast, and the land of the Northern Territory without a let-up. Fires have swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers "Get Fair Deal"
Newcastle was exporting little material needed by the primary producer, Mr. Dean, M.H.R., said in Newcastle last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank's Grant To Junior Farmers
The Bank of New South Wales has made a grant of £400 to the Junior Farmers' Clubs, of which £350…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record For Yass Wool
SYDNEY, Monday. — The season's New South Wales record of 251½d a lb was paid at the Sydney wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →3 Ships To Take Wool
Three ships are expected in Newcastle this week to take much of the wool bought for oversea mills at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Disease
STOCKHOLM. — 18,000 cattle were slaughtered in Sweden up to Dec. 29, on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →More Farm Teaching In Schools
Teaching of agricultural subjects in country schools will be extended and intensified. Announcing this at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Unchanged
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Prices for merino, comeback and crossbred wools were unchanged at Sydney sales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Values Unchanged
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sydney wool sales closed to-day under good general competition. Values for all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Sales This Month
A total of 25,031 bales of wool will be sold by seven brokers at the sixth series of Newcastle wool sales from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stockpile Of Wheat In N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Australian Wheat Board had enough wheat in New South Wales to supply millers and…
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