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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1971

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State creates Board to help all farmers

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 April 1971 · page 4

The State Government has decided to establish a special Board to combine the function of the Rural Reconstruction Board and the Closer Settlement Advisory Board. Mr. Steve Mauger State…

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Yen move could lift wool demand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 April 1971 · page 7

Japan would import more wool and other products from Australia if moves to appreciate yen were successful, the Farmers and Graziers’ Co-operative Company Limited’s…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 April 1971 · page 8

Due to the short week there was a very small yarding of approximately 6,000 sheep and lambs…

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Cattle sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 April 1971 · page 4

There was a yarding of approximately: 175 cattle at the Goulburn sale on Tuesday the dry spell…

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Animal Farm Gets Shire All Clear

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 April 1971 · page 1

Yarrow Sum la Shire Council has given the all dear to Bullen Bros, and Mr. K. Moore to proceed with plans for the establishment of an animal farm near Queanbeyan…

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New crops to be detailed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 April 1971 · page 11

A seminar on lupins, rapeseed and linseed will be held at the RSL Club, Queanbeyan, on…

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Wool sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 April 1971 · page 13

The eighth series of Goulburn wool sales for the current season will commence next…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 May 1971 · page 11

Numbers . were again heavy: at the Goulbum sheep sale on Wednesday, with a yarding of…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 May 1971 · page 13

There was a heavier yarding of approximately 19,000 sheep and lambs at the Goulburn sheep…

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Tourism alternative to depressed farming

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 May 1971 · page 11

Regional promotion of country tourism been advocated by the Federal Minister for Tourist Activities, Senator R. C. Wright, as “an attar active alternative in many areas to…

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Cattle sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 May 1971 · page 11

There was an increased yarding of approximately 2,800 head of cattle on offer at the weekly market…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 May 1971 · page 10

At the Goulburn sheep sale on Wednesday, the market for top prime lambs regained the fall…

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Conference to review Tableland crops

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 May 1971 · page 10

Crops suitable for the Southern Tablelands will be reviewed at a special conference in mid-June. Part of the conference will be open to district landholders…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 May 1971 · page 10

Approximately 20,000 sheep and lambs were yarded at the Goulburn sale on Wednesday; with…

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Death of Bigga wool king

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 May 1971 · page 3

Mr. Samuel Frederick Picker, of Bigga, who achieved world-wide recognition as the “Wool…

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All forms of wool assistance under review —but rejections stand

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 May 1971 · page 10

The Minister for Primary industry, Mr. Ian Sinclair, has told Mr. Fraser, MHR for Eden-Monaro, that he is reviewing all forms of assistance for the wool industry in the light of the excessive price fall this season…

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Cattle sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1971 · page 11

There was another heavy yarding of approximately 1,500 cattle at Goulburn on…

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Sheep sale

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1971 · page 11

Approximately 17,000 sheep and lambs were yarded at the Goulburn sale on Wednesday, when…

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News for the Man on the Land Graziers seek average wool price of 40c

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1971 · page 11

The Wool industry Committee of the Graziers’ Association of NSW fully endorses the action taken last week by the Association’s Executive Committee in seeking an average Australian price for wool of 40 cents a lb…

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Rape Seed Farming Revolution

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 June 1971 · page 11

Rape seed sowings were expected to double this season in the biggest framing revolution in…

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