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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1964

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Pastoral outlook improved

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 April 1964 · page 1

The rain which has fallen throughout the district yesterday and today is expected to result in…

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Lighter yarding of cattle at Goulburn sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1964 · page 9

A v lighter yarding of 900 cattle was forwarded for sale at Goulburn on Tuesday…

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Wool survey Growers lose money on private sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1964 · page 9

Auction prices were 11 to 13 per cent higher than private wool sales, a survey by the Adelaide…

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Junior’ Farmers Film

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 April 1964 · page 1

An amusing- scene from BP Australia’s new film on the Junior Farmer Movement, “Twelve Miles to Achievement.” The film, made by Cinesound, tells the story of a group of Junior Farmers' in North Queensland, who built a 12-milelong long road through heavy bush country as a community project. Junior Farmers'…

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Moves to cut wool tariffs

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 May 1964 · page 8

Tariffs and restrictive trade practices affecting the wool industry are expected to be discussed at next month's momentous G ATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)…

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Sydney Sheep Show entries down

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1964 · page 8

A total of 1,756 sheep halve been entered for this year’s sheep show which will be held at the Sydney…

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Final series of wool sales

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 May 1964 · page 3

The eighth and final series of Goulburn Wool Sales for the current season will be held on Thursday of…

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What is happening on country wool selling?

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 May 1964 · page 4

For the fourth successive day, Mr. Allan Fraser has questioned the Minister for Primary Industry about the future of country wool-selling centres, particularly Goulburn…

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Exhibit wool brings top price

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1964 · page 9

Top price in the merino [?] of the eighth and [?] series of Goulburn wool sales for 1963-64…

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Wool bale weight limit agreement

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 May 1964 · page 9

Woolgrowers’ organisations, selling brokers and the Australian Council of Trade Unions have readied agreement on wool-bale weight limits…

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Objections to wheat-wool sales to China

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 May 1964 · page 6

On behalf of a constituent, Mr. Allan Fraser M.H.R.,, put to the Minister for Trade objections to the…

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Cattle free of tuberculosis

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 May 1964 · page 7

A total of 38 cattle have been tested for tuberculosis within the Municipality of Queanbeyan this years and…

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Sheep show opened on

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 May 1964 · page 9

The Sydney Sheep Show, the biggest of its kind in the world, opened at the Sydney Showground on…

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Records at Goulburn wool sales

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 June 1964 · page 8

The eighth series and final Goulburn wool sale for the current season, held on May 14, concluded an…

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Farmer’s school for Cooma

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 June 1964 · page 8

Monaro and South Coast Division of the Agricultural Bureau has arranged for a comprehensive Pasture Production arid Management School for farmers, to be held at Cooma…

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Tarago man president of Sheep breeders

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 June 1964 · page 5

Mr. L. A. Pockley, of “Pylara,” Tar a go, elected the new president of the N.S.W. Sheep breeders Association at a meeting on Monday…

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CR. K. Grady Welcomed Sheep farming an honourable profession

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 June 1964 · page 4

At last week’s meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council, the president, Mr. P. J. B. Osborne, described sheep farming as an honourable profession…

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Heavier yarding of cattle at Goulburn sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 June 1964 · page 6

A heavier yarding of approximately 800 cattle was offered for sale at Goulburn on Tuesday, with some good…

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Bungendore Sheep Bring Top Prices

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1964 · page 2

There was an. increase in the number of fat sheep and lambs forwarded !or sale at Goulburn on Wednesday…

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Shire opposes move on wool Board funds

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 June 1964 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will not support an application from the Department of Agriculture to the Wool Board for funds to study aerial control of serrated tussock…

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