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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

2,398 stories in Riverina's papers · page 69 of 120

Butter, Cheese, Meat Contract for N.Z.

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Under a seven-year agreement announced today by the Pood Minister (Mr. Strachey). New…

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Wheat Losses Feared Over Tractor Shortage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Huge grain losses in the coming New South Wales harvest, due to shortage of tractors and…

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Silage for Sheep Question of the Quality To Be Stored

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 9

Trials carried out by the Dept. of Agriculture have shown that, while silage will maintain life in sheep, for fairly long periods, the…

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Wombat Farmer Crawled Half a Mile with Fractured Leg Injured When Run Over By Harrows

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 8

On Tuesday a 57-year-old Wombat farmer unyoked a team of horses and crawled half a mile for help after he had been run over…

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Forbes Sheep Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., Forbes, report having held their monthly special store sheep sale on July 22, when they yarded 10,000 high quality…

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Wagga Sheep Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

The associated agents of Wagga—Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., R. H. Blake and Co., Younghusband Ltd., A.M.L. and…

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Goulburn Sheep Skin Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

The Farmers and Graziers, Goulburn, held their sheep skin auction on Tuesday, July 27. It was a good, useful catalogue of…

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Feed Wheat Hold-up

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

The Wheat Board can no longer guarantee adequate supplies of feed wheat, for the metropolitan poultry farming industry…

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The Future for Wheat

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

(Appended is a leading article from the “Sydney Morning Herald,” of Saturday last. The article reiterates what the “Review,” in…

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Sheep Dip Discussed at Sale Yards

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1

A meeting was held at Leeton Sale Yard on Tuesday in answer to the Shire Council's advertisement in connection with a sheep dip, and it was…

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Wheat U.s. Cuts Production

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

For the first time since 1943, the U.S. Government has asked farmers to cut down wheat planting…

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Urana C.w.a. Wool Fair

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

LOCKHART, Thursday: Introduced by Mrs. Otwsy Falkiner (president), Mrs. W. E. Sargood, of Corowa, yesterday…

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Tumbarumba Farms for Ex-servicemen

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) has approved of 14 farms on "Maragle" Estate…

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For the Man on the Land Dollars Spent on Farm Nachines Will Earn More Dollars

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

Unless someone does something about the tractor and farm plant shortage soon there is going to be trouble about getting the next harvest in. WHILE all farmers may be…

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Visit of New Zealand Farmers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1

Farmers from both north and south Islands of New Zealand, were among the visitors to the Irrigation Area during the week. Mr. V. Horrocks…

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Farmers & Settlers’ Association Coolamon Branch

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

The meeting of the Coolamon branch of the F. and S. Association was held on Tuesday 13th July in the School of Arts, those present…

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Crop Reports

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 4

The following report is by Airmail dated London, 6th July. 1948:— U.S.A.—Harvesting weather in the winter wheat belt has been very…

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Donations of Cattle to Wagga Agents' Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 3

Several donations of cattle have already been received for disposal in aid of the Wagga agents' Food for Britain appeal…

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U.S. Senate Reviews Wheat Pact

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday: In a closed session yesterday, the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate reviewed the…

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Growers May Have to Bear Wheat Losses

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: It would be a "grave scandal" if wheat-growers were penalised for what happened to their wheat after…

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