"Bring Chaos To Wheat Industry" Minister Slates Victoria
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Failure of the Victorian Government to agree to a 15/ a bushed home consumption…
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Farming & the land, 1953
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Dairy Costs Survey Soon
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A new survey of production costs in the dairying industry will be made shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Reaped Best Harvest "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, August 4.—Farmers have done better than any other class of Americans in the past six years,…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.)—The Leader of the N.S.W. Opposition (Mr. Vernon Treatt) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Farmers Celebrate Rain
SYDNEY: Farmers are celebrating the continuation of "eleventh-hour" falls of rain which have temporarily assured the success of the wheat crop…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ash Island's Future Farms To Be Resumed And Then Leased Back
It was the Government's intention to resume Ash Island in the next five to 10 years and then lease it back to the former owners until expanding industries needed sites there, the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Renshaw) said today…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Federal Cabinet has reaffirmed its decision to refuse to pay subsidy on wheat for home…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Milder Weather Saves Sheep From Death
SYDNEY: Mild weather in north-western N.S.W. today has possibly saved thousands of newly-shorn sheep, which have developed pneumonia, from dying. A cold snap, which…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—The New South Wales railways were converting 350 42-ton coal trucks into wheat trucks,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. W. Tearle has been appointed State Organiser of Junior Farmers' Clubs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Break Cattle Duffing Case
DARWIN, Sunday.—Northern Territory police have broken what they believe to be the biggest cattle duffing…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Russia has become an important buyer on an unprecedented scale from…
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CHICAGO, Monday (A.A.P.).—A selling wave hit the U.S. wheat market today…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Russia is negotiating with the Australian Dairy Produce Board to buy butter from…
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CHICAGO, Tues. (A.A.P.): Wheat gained 2 1/2 to 3 1/4 cents a bushel on the Board of Trade today in a rebound from sharp losses of the two previous sessions. Dealings were active and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chicago Wheat Slumps Views Differ In N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Opinions differ on the fall of 11d. a bushel — the legal limit—in the price of Chicago wheat futures…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers Back Egg Board For Exports
A meeting of poultry farmers last night decided to advise the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—More than 2000 sheep have died in the Forbes district in the last fortnight…
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The Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Sir John Teasdale) said in Melbourne yesterday that there was no need for Australian wheatgrowers to "go off the deep end" about the prices fall on the Chicago market…
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MELBOURNE. — The P.M.G. has bought more than 200 sheep, but is not planning to grow wool…
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