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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

2,230 stories in Riverina's papers · page 10 of 112

Temora Mill May Close Wheat Stocks Dwindle

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

Pardery and Co's flour will will be forced to close unless supplies of f.a.q. wheat arrive. Supplies on hand are sufficient to keep the mill working…

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The Wheat Plan (To the Editor. "The Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

Sir,—The comments, elation and destructie criticism of Mr. H. Roberton in Wednesday's issue of the "Advertiser" over the defeat of the…

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Wheat Deliveries May Total 100,000,000 Bushels

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4

Deliveries of wheat to the Australian Wheat Board up to Saturday, January 11. totalled 64 million bushels, said Sir Louis Bussau, chairman…

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Coolamon Railway Returns for 1946 60,000 Sheep and Lambs Despatched

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

During 1946, 588 trucks of stock, mostly lambs, were despatched from the Coolamon railway station—a total of about 60,000 lambs and sheep…

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£12,500,000 Loan "To France for Empire Wool

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

London banks have granted a revolving credit of £12,500,000 sterling to finance the French purchase of wool within the British Empire during the…

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Tumut Stock Sales Cattle Prices Advance 30- to £2 Total Clearance of All Lines Offered

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

Messrs. Herron. Webb and Holmes, in conjunction with A.M.L. and F. Co., Wagga, conducted a sale at the Tumut Saleyards on Monday. There was a big…

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Australia's Rice Crop to Be Exported

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Except to provide for medical cases, all Australia's rice crop of 35,000 tons will be exported again this season…

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Now Blame the Farmer a Condensation of Hugh Roberton's Book

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

This is the fifth and final instalment of "Now Blame the Farmer." In it Hugh Roberton gives what he believes are the solutions to the problems of Australian agriculture. There is no such thing as soil…

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Progressive Farmer's Address to Leeton Gathering Many Interesting Experiences in America

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

MR. A. K. Gardiner, winner of the Progressive Farmer Competition who recently completed a tour of the United States of America, gave an entertaining account of his experiences and impressions of farming methods in that country at a well attended and representative…

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Crop Failures Bounty Not Definite

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

No move has yet bean made concerning drought relief to farmers whose crops have failed this season, according to a letter received by the…

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The Tumut Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

TENDERS are invited and will be received by the undersigned for the PURCHASE of the UNDERMENTIONED FARM EQUIPMENT. TENDERS CLOSE…

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Tumut Millet Crop Over 300 Tons Expected

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

With the failure of the broom millet crops in the Richmond River area, a big portion of the State's millet will have to come from Tumut this year…

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500,000 Tons of Argentina Wheat for U.K.

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: The financial editor of Reuter says that he has learned from responsible grain trade quarters that Britain has bought…

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Broom Millet Crop Average Yield Expected In Gundagai

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 7

Despite lower production of broom millet in the Richmond River area and dry weather having prevented sowing in the Tamworth…

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Wool Report

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 2
Also in The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser

THE FARMERS and GRAZIERS' CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN INSURANCE and AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED report under date 15th January, 1947:—…

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Market Firm at Brisbane Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday: Greasy wool sold at 44½d and secured at 69¼d when the fifth series of wool sales opened to-day…

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No Extra Wheat for Britain From Australia

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 4

Australian wheat exports could not be increased sufficiently to enable Britain to postpone further her stringent bread rationing, an official of the…

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Flag Smut of Wheat Factors in Low Incidence This Season

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 3

The only flag smut infected crop observed in the course of recent surveys of the biological branch of the" Department of Agriculture was in…

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Farmer Compares Australian and U.s. Methods

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 4

In many cases American farming methods were superior to those adopted in Australia, but in many regards the people of the United States would…

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