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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

2,466 stories in Riverina's papers · page 71 of 124

More Meat Produced by New Cattle. Santa Gertrudis Have Created Record Prices

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 2

The Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle, developed at King Ranch in south Texas and named for the, Spanish land grant that is now…

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Junee Flour Mill, Like Others Throughout State, Work Half Time Owing to Wheat Shortage

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 1

BECAUSE OF THE ACUTE SHORTAGE OF WHEAT THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND A REDUCTION OF THE QUOTAS MADE AVAILABLE BY THE AUSTRALIAN WHEAT BOARD, MESSRS JEFFS BROS (N.S.W.) PTV. LTD…

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Farmers Have Troubles

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 2

WEST WYALONG. Thursday: Reports today indicated that wintry conditions last weekend caused the death of many sheep…

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Industrial Conditions Hamper Dairy Industry

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 6

At the meeting of the Murrumbidgee Regional Committee at Leeton last Friday afternoon, Mr. T. Napthall, manager of the M.I.A. Dairy…

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New Crops for Oil Extraction

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 6

New crops for the extraction of oil including linseed, soy beans, sunflower and peanuts, could be treated by the' Leeton…

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Review of U.S. Crop Prospects Cotton Acreage Points to Huge Harvest

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 7

The Department of Agriculture of the United States reports that prospects for the forthcoming crop harvest are "among the most…

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Dairy Clearance Sale

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 5

Messrs. Herron, Webb and Holmes report that there was a good attendance of buyers from Cootamundra, Muttama…

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Coolamon Farm Realises £17 Per Acre District Record

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 2

A farm of 823 acres, “Lorton Vale” unrestricted freehold, nine miles north of Coolamon, on the Alarh Park Road, was sold by M…

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Butter Pric[?]rise Move [?] Defeated

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: A [?] have the price of bullet [?]ed during the winter [?] PAPERHANG[?] by sixpence per lb abo[?]…

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F.s.a. Not to Oppose Wool Plan

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 1

A notion urging that the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. advocate a "No" vote at the forthcoming Port…

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Rices Ministers Silent [?]Ut Butter [?]Ise Likely Price Freeze Refused on All Other Items

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: The State Price Min[?] conference did not grant an increase in the [?] of butter today. But it is believed that a price was agreed upon…

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Sheep Skin Auction

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 7

Farmers and Graziers, Goulburn submitted an attractive catalogue of 5600 sheep skins on Tuesday 31st July. There…

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Less Milk, Butter Statistics For May

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 6

Australian butter factories produced 6.59,5 tons of butter in May, compared with 9,58[?] tons in May 1950 the…

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Export of Wool Value Doubles

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 1

Australia exported £635-millions worth of wool in 1950/51, more than double the value of the previous…

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P.m. Defends Reserve Wool Price Scheme

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Sunday: Australian woolgrowers in their own interests and those of the Australian economy should approve the reserve price plan for wool, die Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said today…

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Rates for Sheep a Little Lower. Country Producers' Report on Homebush Sales

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 3

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reports the following sales at Homebush [?] August 1951…

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Farmers Being "Stripped of Labor"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 4

The President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. (Mr. W. R. Scilley, of Narrandera) said on Wednesday the primary industries…

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Wanted— Farm Labor

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 2

Many Australian farmers who are new, for the first time, in a position to employ permanent labor, are finding it impossible to…

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Losses From Botulism Sheep Eat Rabbit Carrion

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 7

"Botulism has caused some heavy moralities in sheep in the Riverina district during the year," states Mr. R. M. Watts, senior…

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Butter Producers May Ban Supplies Decision on Higher Price Demanded

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 1

LISMORE, Tuesday—unless Action is taken this week to give dairy farmers, the cost of production for butter, moves will be…

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