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Farming & the land, 1953

2,307 stories in Riverina's papers · page 65 of 116

Need for Home Dairy Market Support

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday: There was a clear need in Australia to foster the local market for butter and…

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Proved Success of Practical Farming Methods

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 5

North coast farmers have demonstrated, through the Royal Agricultural Society's farm and fodder championship, that production can be raised by the adoption of well-defined practical methods of farming…

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Turn Ground Early for Rice Crops

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 5

It's getting around to the time when large area farmers on the M.I.A. should be thinking about preparing for rice sowings. If the weather permits, it's…

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Leeton Experiment Farm Lambs

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 28 July 1953 · page 2

Farmers who attended the Field Day held at the Leeton Experiment Farm on July 17, will be interested to learn…

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Wagga Special Cattle Sale

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 4

Younghusband Limited, Wagga, report holding a Special Cattle Sale at Wagga on Friday last…

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Season's Wool Report

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 2

The Formers and Graziers, Goulburn, report: The wool season, which closed on June 30, was notable in that…

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Hopes for wheat price pact

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Wheat authorities today considered it virtually certain that Queensland will come into lin[?] with other States on the question of…

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Support for 15/ Wheat Price

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The president of the Victorian Wheat and Woolgrowers' Association (Mr. G…

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Wheat Decision May Affect Food Prices

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A wheat price increase would mean increases in food prices, trade spokesmen said today…

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More Wool Used Than Grown In'53 Stocks Absorbed as Demand Increases

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 29 July 1953 · page 6

World consumption of wool during the past season is estimated to have exceeded the quantity grown. Socks…

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Young Cereal Crops Bad for Sheep

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 4

The Assistant District Veterinary Officer at Cootamundra (Mr. E. A. Dickinson) said this week that there was a possibility of trouble occurring in sheep…

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Sheep and Wood Classes

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 3

W Six students of the Wool and Sheep Classes being held at Tumbarumba each week will sit for an examination at Wagga next week…

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Bathurst Grazier Loses 80 Sheep in Five Days Left Grazing On Young Crop

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 2

A grazier in the Bathurst district last week lost 80 sheep in five days. Valued at between 70/…

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The Week in Wool

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 2

Coincidental with the hiatus between wool-selling seasons in Australia, the world's hub of combs and looms in Yorkshire…

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Famous Cattle Stud to Be Auctioned

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.: The stud herd at Golf Hill, Australia's leading Hereford stud, at Shelford, near Geelong…

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Right Type of Wheat Wanted

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday N.S.W. farmers are growing a type of wheat because it gives greater acreage, but results in…

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Today's Homebush Market Sheep and Lambs Dearer

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. report that there were 11,546 sheep and 12,795…

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Boree Creek Sheep Sale Good Prices Realised

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., of Boree Creek, report having held a most successful sheep sale on Monday last,…

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Wheat Decision May Affect Food Prices

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 1

A wheat price increase would moan increases in food prices, trade spokesmen said on Tuesday. They were commenting on a…

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Wheat Plan Accepted By Agricultural Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 4

The Wheat Stabilisation Plan put forward by Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A. (N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture and Food Produce) was…

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