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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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Boom Prices for Stud Cattle

The North Western Courier · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 8

With 50 bulls selling at 1000gns. and over, the Perth Shorthorn bull sales reached a post-ward record…

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The Week in Wool Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 11

Intervention by Russian countries with another batch of weighty orders for best top-making wools steadied the downward trend in the wool market at Brisbane last week, and…

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Farm Storage Important

The North Western Courier · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 2

Farm storage could play an important part while problems relating to the marketing of Australian wheat…

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No Price-war for Wheat

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 1

"We don't want to start a price war, but we shall do our utmost to sell surplus Australian wheat," A N.S.W. growers' representative on the Australian Wheat Board, Mr. E. G. Hoy, told a…

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Reduced Oversea Price for Wheat Suggested

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 3

A suggestion that the price of Australian wheat be reduced to enable other countries to buy it was made by the Bohena Creek delegate, Mr. K. Rees, at the F. &. S. northern…

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Wheat Storage Problem Not Tackled By Government

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 6

Delegates to the Farmers and Settlers' Association northern zone conference at Gunnedah unaminously condemned the State Government's failure to alleviate the acute storage…

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Myxomatosis Boosts World Wool Production LONDON, Monday

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 1

Australia was given most of the credit for last year's eight per cent increase in world apparel wool production in the Commonwealth Ecomic Committee's report "Industrial…

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Capless Wool Packs

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 2

The Australian Growers' Council has written the Minister for National Development, Senator Spooner,…

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Allan on Wheat Exports

North West Champion · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 5

"If we are going to simply wait for the ideal market to present itself, export wheat business will disappear."…

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Wool Market Unchanged Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 16

Winchcombe Carson sold 7079 bales of wool to wide-spread competition. Market generally was unchanged; any…

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The Week in the Wool Market

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 15

In another week of capricious bidding, wool continued its steady decline to a new low point of the season, then towards the end of the week when British and Continental buyers were complaining that offerings were excessive and a further price-slide inevitable,…

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Australian Wheat Board To Oppose Diesel Changeover

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 7

The Australian Wheat Board will oppose any move by wheatgrowers to undertake the financing of a change-over from diesel to power driven grain elevators. This was…

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Impressions of Farmers and Settlers' Conference

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 7

"If we are going to simply wait for the ideal market to present itself, export wheat business will disappear."…

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Wool Report

Manilla Express · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 4

We submitted our catalogue of 7,608 bales on Wednesday 10th instant, the selection including a number of…

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Wool Report

The North Western Courier · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 7
Also in North West Champion

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. reports under date March 11:—…

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Wool Report

The North Western Courier · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 8

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. reports under date March 17:—We…

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Seasonal Feed Shortages Retard Cattle

The North Western Courier · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 2

Beef production in Australia is more seriously retarded by seasonal feed shortages than is generally believed. This is shown by weighing tests being conducted by State Departments of Agriculture and the C.S.I.R.O., at a total of…

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The Week in Wool Sydney, Saturday

The North Western Courier · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 3

Hot dry days and the absence of follow-on rains in the Central West, Southwest, Riverina and Southern Tablelands, have destroyed much of the young pastures started by the…

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Case for Second Wheat Receiver at Bellata

North West Champion · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 4

District Organiser of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. Scott, said on Thursday last that a case for a second licensed receiver at Belata will be placed before the Australian Wheat…

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