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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

2,503 stories in Riverina's papers · page 67 of 126

Top Prices Paid at Junee Stock Sale. Biggest Cattle Yarding For Six Months

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 7

The Junee Associated Agents (A.M.L. & F. Co., Wagga, J. J. S. Glass & Co., A S Leahy & Co., and ! Younghusband Ltd.. Junee) report…

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200 People Floodbound on Farms Near Nyngan May be Unable to Leave Homes for Three Weeks

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two hundred people, are floodbound on farming properties in the Marra Creek district, 20 miles north of Nyngan. They have been unable to leave their homes for…

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Junee's Maher Cup Team Re-shuffled Crop of Injuries Keeps Prominent Players Out

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 26 July 1950 · page 4

Owing to injuries to regular forwards Jackson and Bert Edwards, the pack for the Maher Cup team to meet Temora on Willow Park…

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Wheat Body Election to Fill Vacancy

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday—An election to fill the vacancy on the State Wheat Committee caused by the resignation of…

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Questions and Answers on Federal Wheat Scheme

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 2

Mr Hugh Roberton, M.H.R. for Riverina, recently asked the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr McKwen), in the House of…

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Election to Fill Vacancy on Wheat Body

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: An election to fill the vacancy on the State Wheat Committee caused by the resignation of…

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Farm Market in the World Facilities for Display and Storage

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 2

The rise in vegetable prices in Australian cities and towns has been much discussed recently by news and market reported…

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M.i.a. Plan to Improve Farm Health May Give Lead to State

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 4

A plan has been developed on the M.I.A. which has been welcomed by both State and local health authorities as a solution to the farm sewerage problem "FARM housewives will have…

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Leeton Cattle Sale

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

A yarding of 300 [?] and store cattle was [?] the Leeton Associated Agents [?]day of last week to a good…

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Wagga Sheep Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

The associated agents of Wagga—Messrs. Younghusband ltd., A.M.L. and F. Co., New Zealand Loan Co., Farmers and…

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Americans Warned to Choose "Peace or Butter"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.): Mr. Bernard Baruch, American "elder" statesman and adviser of Presidents, soberly warned the United States yesterday that it had to choose "peace or butter."…

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Fixing Wool Levy at 7½ Per Cent. Minister Replies To Criticism

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, said that in fixing the rate of the levy on wool at 7½ per cent, for…

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Nangus Joins in New Council of A.P.P.U. Proposed Wool Marketing Scheme Under Review

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

A meeting of delegates at Tum- ut decided to form the Tumut District Council of the Australian Primary Producers' Union…

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Farmers & Settlers' Conference Opens on August 2

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

This year's conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association which will open in Sydney on Wednesday. 2nd August, will be held at the…

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Plan to improve farm health M.I.A. Development May Give State Lead

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 4

A plan has been developed on the M.I.A. which has been welcomed by both State and local health authorities as a solution…

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B.p.h. News the Pea Crop--

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 6

Time marches on and there is now not a long period until the zero hour for the Tumut district pea crops. All growers now have the…

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36 Sit for Sheep and Wool Exams. at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 3

Three o'clock yesterday afternoon marked the finish of a trying time for 36 young people from Wagga and its surrounding districts. THEY completed their final…

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Says Changes on Wheat Board Due to "Hate"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: The former Federal Minister for Commerce and Agriculture in the Chifley Government. Mr…

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Heavy Sheep Mortality at Quirindi

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

Heavy mortalities in sheep in the Quirindi district ended recently with a final loss of two hundred and fifty out of a mob of five…

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Records for Wool Tops Japan's Extending Output

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 2

Winehcombe, Carson, Ltd. report: For a considerable part of the season, confidence in commodity prices in the U.S. was…

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