21 to Give Evidence at Dairy Inquiry
NIMBIN, Wednesday.--Any dairy farmer who presents evidence on his own behalf before the Dairy Industry Investigation Committee in Lismore on May 11 will be making history, stated the…
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Farming & the land, 1954
767 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 13 of 39
Farmer Found Dead in Dam
A 67-year-old dairy farmer was found dead in a 3 ft. deep dam at Bexhill yesterday…
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KYOGLE, Wednesday.-- Pleading guilty through Mr. R. M. Jones, to a charge of failing to register dairy premises,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Experts Believed Dead
SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Two prominent American cattle experts who visited Sydney for the R.A.S. show…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle, Pig Prices Slump Report 'Exaggerated'
CASINO, Thursday.--A report that the bottom was falling out of the district cattle and pig market had caused unnecessary concern in local banking and business circles, a Casino…
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CASINO, Thursday.--There should be serious threat to the Australian dairying industry from the American offer to supply butter to Britain, the manager of the Casino Co-operative Dairy Society. Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Urgent Appeal to Aid Farmers Stock Agistment
An urgent appeal for district farmers who have pastures surplus to their requirements to undertake agistment of stock from the Lower River area has been made by the Senior Dairy…
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Pleading guilty, through Mr. R. M. Jones, Kyogle solicitor, to the charge of failing to register dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agistment For Lower River Stock Help Wanted From Local Farmers
An appeal for district farmers, who have pastures surplus to their requirements, to undertake agistment of stock from the Lower Rivers has been made by Mr. F. A. Vernon,…
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WASHINGTON, Friday.--The U.S. Agriculture Department announced yesterday it would sell its surplus butter stocks for commercial export at prices comparable to world…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Free Market For Butter Urged
A view that Australia could sell butter at a better price than that received under the agreement with the United Kingdom was expressed at Bega by the president of the State division of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers in Drive for Winter Fodder
Farmers on the Lower North Coast are engaged in a determined drive for winter fodder crops following heavy losses of summer crops through floods earlier in the year…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday. -- A mysterious disease which attacked Tweed pea crops about two weeks ago…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Inquiry Tomorrow
The Lismore sitting of the Dairy Industry Investigation Committee will be held in the board room of the Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Price Increase Not Favoured
BRISBANE, Monday. -- Any increase in the price of butter would be against the interests of the dairying…
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LONDON, Monday. -- Unrationed butter and margarine are on sale throughout Britain today for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hail Destroys Pea Crops
MURWILLUMBAH, Monday. -- At least 30 acres of peas were destroyed at Tygalgah during a hailstorm that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Inquiry Today
After taking evidence in Brisbane, the Dairy Industry Investigation Committee arrived in Lismore last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →5'- Lb. Reasonable Price for Butter Evidence By Farmers
A number of farmers told the Dairy Industry Investigation Committee in Lismore yesterday that 5- per lb. would be a reasonable price for farmers to receive for butter. They said they thought this would represent the ascertained cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Rush For Butter, Margarine
LONDON, Tuesday.--Purse conscious British housewives made no rush yesterday for stocks of unrationed butter…
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