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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1974

159 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 7 of 8

More Leave the Farms

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 14 October 1974 · page 4

A total 142 dairymen left the industry in NSW during the period July 1 to August 22, 1974…

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Wool

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 21 October 1974 · page 3

Any wool grower who normally sells wool before Christmas should consider the…

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Cattle price down by $4-$5

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 21 October 1974 · page 10

Cattle prices at this week’s Goulburn sales dropped by as much as $5 a head compared with last…

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Farm Land

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 October 1974 · page 6

Applications by three landholders to the City Council for land to be rated as urban farm land…

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Cattle Prices

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 28 October 1974 · page 12

Values for steers and bullvks were down $5 to S8, while yearlings and vealers sold at prices…

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Costs about $1.10 to shear a sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 28 October 1974 · page 12

Average cost of shearing flock sheep is now about $1.10 a head, reports Grazcos chairman, Duncan Mathieson…

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News for the Man on the Land Bale of wool down by $115 in a year

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 28 October 1974 · page 12

Figures released today by the Goulburn Wool Selling Brokers Association show that the price of a bale of wool has…

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Budgeting for Crops

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 28 October 1974 · page 12

The opportunity for diversification into grazing-cropping-pasture systems exists because of…

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Beef cattle comp

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 October 1974 · page 26

In a year when beef cattle prices have dropped markedly breeders should be striving more than ever…

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Wool Plan

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 October 1974 · page 16

It is now generally accepted that the concept of Objective Measurement for clip preparation…

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News for the Man on the Land Where Have All the Cattle Gone?

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 October 1974 · page 26

Looking at the small number of cattle being sold over the past six months you could be forgiven for thinking…

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Sheep

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1974 · page 20

All descriptions of suckers and lambs met with weak buyer competition at the…

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News for the Man on the Land Cattle Cheaper

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1974 · page 20

Rates for all descriptions of cattle were easier by as much as $10 a head at this week’s Goulburn…

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High School Farm Study

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1974 · page 20

Extension of agricultural studies to 5th and 6th Form pupils at Monaro High School is being supported by the SE…

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Look at farming

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1974 · page 10

The 1980 farmer will be lucky to earn an income as high as most workers in the…

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Cattle Up by $2-$4

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 11 November 1974 · page 10

Cattle prices rose by $2 to $4 a head at this week’s Goulburn sales. There was improved…

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Back On A Farm

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 November 1974 · page 4

Minister for Planning and Environment, Sir John Fuller, observed that he might have a…

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Sheep Price Up 80c

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 18 November 1974 · page 9

There was keen demand for all descriptors of sheep and lambs a the Goulburn sales…

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Wool Bans Threatened

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 18 November 1974 · page 12

The district sub-branch of the Australian Railways Union is threatening to ban handling of Australian Wool Commission wool…

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Cattle Now $4 Up-down

Queanbeyan Age · Monday 18 November 1974 · page 9

There was reasonably good demand for all good trade cattle offered at the Goulburn sales and these…

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