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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1951

2,466 stories in Riverina's papers · page 76 of 124

Mass Meeting Supports Ban on Butter Supplies

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Far North Coast dairy farmers are expected to agree to withhold supplies of cheese…

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40-Hour Week Would Send Butter Price Up

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: The Primary Producers' Union general secretary (Mr. L. L. Johnstone) said today that the introduction of a…

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Country Producers Selling Company. Reduced Wool Values Affects Sheep Prices

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 7

The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reports the following soles at Homebush market on the 16th. inst:…

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Why Not More Butter?

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 4

Although milk production in Australian has risen by only one per cent. in the past 12 years, our population has grown by 20…

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Butter May Be 5/- Lb

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

Consumers will have to pay 5/-lb. for butter if there is no increase in the present subsidy and if the 40-hour week is granted to the dairy…

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Will Synthetics Replace Wool?

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 4

Most Australian woolmen believe that the sheep will always beat the chemist, according to a survey…

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The Wool Season Query

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

Within a few days the curtain will rise on the 1951-51 wool selling season, Sydney is the stage, and the actors will be buyers…

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More Bulkhead Sites for Wheat

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. B. Graham) announced at the weekend that 11 more bulkheads would be erected—at…

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The Wool Plan Poll Is On

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

THIS month the ballot on the Post JO Plan will be held. Every woolgrower knows that the plan is aimed at avoiding depression prices for wool. [?]f it avoids depression for wool it avoids depression prices for land and the sheep of the…

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Wool Position Aspects Is A Decline Probable ?

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 5

Ample private enquiry for local fellmongered wools has prevailed but the number of transactions recorded has…

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Decline In Dairying Herds Disastrous Australia Requires 20,000 Additional Farms

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

DISASTER threatens Australia’s milk and butter production. The need for 20,000 more dairy farms, and an addditional 1,000,000 cows by 1960, to maintain our present export quotas and satisfy increasing home demand has…

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Butter Up to 5/- Per Lb. If N.S.W. Follows Victorian Lead

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

Consumers will have to pay 5/- a lb for butter if there is no increase in the present subsidy and if the 40-hour week is granted to the dairy industry in NSW ,an official of the Primary Producers’ Union said last week…

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Cabinet Expected to Lift Many Controls Wool Is at Least Certain

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—State Cabinet is expected today to lift the price controls on many commodities pegged at July 18 levels. Prices Minister Finnan is insisting that the…

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Practical Appoach to Farm Management. Taught in U.S.

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

Agricultural students at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, are making a practical approach to the subject of farm management…

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Farm Let Sold

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

A 17-acre farmlet situated on the take Albert Road, one and a hall miles from Wagga, was offered for auction on Saturday…

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Farmers Asked to Supply Own Bags for Super

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 3

A drastic cat in the supply of containers for the distribution of fertiliser is causing great concern among primary producers. Supplies have been cut mainly because of the…

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Goulburn Wool Sales

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 4

Prices obtained during the wool selling season of 1950/51 reached a peak which was an outstanding record in the long…

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N. Z. Wool Sales

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): A much better tone prevailed at the first day of the Napier wool sales than in…

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Butter Supply May Run Out By Weekend

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Bulk butter supplies in cold stores will be exhausted this week, spokesmen for leading butter distributors said today. Norco Co-Operative Ltd., one…

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No Cause for Alarm, Says Wool Report

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 13

SYDNEY, Monday: Government conferences and proposals have temporarily disturbed the world's wool trade and are…

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