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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1947

2,230 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 112

No Higher U.S. Tariffs On Australian Wool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday: Inspite of renewed Appeals by American woolgrowers for protection, the change for Republic control in…

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N.s.w. Wheat Shortage Thirty Million Bushels Needed From Other States

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 3

If an wheat requirements are to be met to New South Wales this year, including adejuste quantities of mill by-products for stocks feeding, it may be necessary to…

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Activities of Leeton Farm Extending

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

The activities of Leeton Experiment Farm are being re-designed to enable it to cater in a big way for live stock, stock fodders, and…

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Irrigation Farms For 4000; Snowy River Plan

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

GRIFFITH, Thursday: Unless irrigation farms are provided for between 3000 and 4000 ex-servicemen from the M.I.A. and associated irrigation districts their special skill as irrigators will be lost to the nation, says a statement from the Murrumbidgee Water…

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Dutch Farmers Here This Year

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 4

More than 50 prospective Dutch farmers will emigrate from Holland to Australia next May or June…

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Junior Farmers State Championships to Hanwood Club

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 6

First, second and third prizes in the sowing of grasses and clovers championship of the Junior Farmers' Movement, have been awarded to…

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Britain’s Bad Farm Year “Worst Since 1879”

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 4

The year 1946 will go down in history as Britain’s worst farming year since 1879. A bad autumn followed a disastrous…

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Dairying Industry Award

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 1

This Award was made on 24th June 1943, by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, under powers provided by National Security…

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Rising Costs In Sheep And Wool Industry

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 4

The effect of any general rise in costs is particularly…

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Canada to Get 6000 Tons of Aust, Butter

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Britain has granted a pressing Canadian request for 6000 tons of Australian and/or New Zealand butter…

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Tumut Cattle Sale

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 3

Dalgety and Co. Ltd Wagga associated with Allan J. Downing Tumut held their January sale at Tumut when 540 head of cattle…

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Cootamundra Special Sheep Sale

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

On January 8 Pitt, Son and Badgery submitted 12,500 sheep at their special sale at Cootamundra. The quality generally was only fair, as the bulk of…

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Wagga District Cattle Released From Quarantine

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

Wagga district cattle which were held under pleuro-pneumonia quarantine restrictions have now been released…

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Infertility in Sheep on Sub. Clover

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 4

A recent statement by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture describing further investigations concerning the detrimental…

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Appeal to Prevent Big Decline in U.s. Sheep Numbers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 3

CHEYENNE (Wyoming), Sunday The State Governor (Mr. Leicester Hunt) has asked all wool producing States to combine their efforts to…

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£27,000 in Freight Wool Firm’s Big Bill

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 1

The Farmers and Graziers firm at Goulburn has paid out more than £27,000 to the Railway Department during the past sixteen…

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Local & General Dutch Farmers Sons for Australia

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 13 January 1947 · page 2

Some 50 farmers sons will emigrate from Holland to Australia next May or June. It is to be hoped that they will be the advance party of a much…

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COMMERCIAL Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY. Monday: Australian Wheat Board's quotations:— Millers lots: All prices for export on application to the board…

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World Wheat Crop Biggest Since 1940

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

The world wheat crop is estimated by the United States Department of Agriculture to be the best since 1940, but reserved wheat stocks have been…

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Heavy Losses of Sheep

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 1

In the year ended March 31 last, the number of sheep in Australia declined by about 9 million to 96,400,000, which was the lowest…

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