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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

2,206 stories in Riverina's papers · page 48 of 111

Pastoral Conditions Deteriorating Says Pp. Board Inspector a Variety of Diseases Reported Amongst Stock

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 6

The Gundagai P.P. Board's Stock Inspector (Mr H. R. Peisley) in his monthly report to the Directors stated that the pastoral oulook, which was very good earlier in the year, has deteriorated through the lack of autumn rains…

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Research on Wheat Farrar Memorial Award To Hillston District Scholar

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 2

Mr. F. L. Milthorpe, Commonwealth Research Fellow in Plant Physiology at the University of Sydney, has been awarded the…

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District Maize Farmers Depend Too Much on Floods Opinion Of Departmental Expert Value of Sorghum Grain

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 7

This week, Mr W. D. Kerle, well known agricultural expert from the Dept. of Agriculture, made a tour of the Gundagai District,…

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£40,000 To Be Spent On Asparagus Farms Canning Factory Will Be Established Here, New Company's Objective Is 1,000 Acres Of Asparagus

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 June 1946 · page 1

The asparagus industry, now being established at Gundagai, will involve an initial capital expenditure of £40,000. A preliminary prospectus for the formation of the Batlow Asparagus Co-op. Ltd has just been issued. In the prospectus it is stated that the company's objective…

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Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

Winchombe, Carson wire us that 3271 bales of wool were offered nt our final Sydney appraisement catalogue yesterday. Results: Estate S. L…

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State Wheat Crop Critical Position

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

Australia Is committed to a [?] wheat export programme, and failure of this season’s crops in N.S.W. would he disastrous…

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Empire Wool Price

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday: The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) has announced In the House of Representatives that the general reserve price…

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Wool Boom Predicted

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

Wool values for most growers on the resumption of auction selling this year would be appreciably above the prices they had been receiving for…

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Empire Wool Price Minister's Announcement

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) announced in the House of Representatives to-day that the general…

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September Wool Auctions Promising Prospects

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 4

Rumors have been prevalent that wool auctions will not be held in Australia next season. No foundation exists for those Ideas. Auctions…

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Dissatisfaction Among Dairy Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A suggestion that members of the central council of Primary Producers' Union were afraid that dairymen would…

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For the Man on the Land Australian Wool Board Chairman at Salt Lake Co-operation in Wool Selling

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 4

"Your job is to sell the wool you grow. The Australian producer's job is to sell the wool he grows, and that same thing is applicable to every wool grower in any country in the world. Whether he happens to…

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Wheat Plan Attacked Government Charged with Breach of Faith

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

There was no foundation for the claim that Australian wheatgrowers approved the Federal Government’s wheat stabilisation scheme, said the Secretary of the…

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Exports of Wheat and Flour Four Times As Much as 1945

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Australia's exports of wheat and flour this year will be almost four times as much as last year when…

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Farmers & Settlers' Association Annual Meeting of Murrumbidgee District Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Murrumbidgee District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in the supper room of the Criterion…

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Conditions in England Bad Weather Hay Crop Affected

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 2

Appended are extracts from a [?] written on 5th June, by Mrs. S. Andrew’s, the Editor’s sister, from [?] Hempstead Herts:—…

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Rain Needed on Dairy Farms Almost Back to Drought Position

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 5

The Dairy Instructor for the Southwestern Slopes and Riverina (Mr. C. E. Chapman) in his report on conditions during June…

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Satisfaction Over New Wool Price Warning Against Private Selling

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Representing an average net increase of 1.79 peace above the Bat rate of the 1945-1946 season, the minimum…

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Big Increase at Tumut Butter Factory

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 1

The production of butter at the Tumut Butter Factory during May amounted to 34½ tons, compared with 11¼ tons for the…

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£900,000 to Be Distributed No. 8 Wheat Pool

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 2

A third advance to wheatgrowers on the 1944-'45 wheat crop in No. 8 pool was announced last week by the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture…

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