Rain Over Wheat Belt Very Welcome Good Prospects Now for Big Crop
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday — Agricultural officials said today's soaking rains in the wheat, belt had given rise to high hopes for a "bumper wheat crop." DROUGHT-stricken wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought Conditions Broken by General Rain But still more is needed for wheat crops
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Steady soaking rain which has fallen on the Western N.S.W. wheat belt today has eased drought conditions, but more rain is required. Rain commenced in the western areas on Monday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strong Wool Position French Views
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 2
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The world's stocks of wool by the time the new season's supplies commence to arrive at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Intervention Wheat Price in Jeopardy
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 1
CANBERRA, Wednesday — The Commonwealth Government will make a strong bid to prevent the collapse of the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minister fears chaos in wheat industry
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 3
CANBERRA, Tuesday: Failure of the Victorian Government' to agree to a 15/ per bushel home consumption price for all Australian wheat would bring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Survey of Dairy Industry
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 1
CANBERRA, Tuesday: A new survey of production costs in the dairying industry wilt be made shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Full Wool Sheep Skins Firm
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 4
Long merino and comeback were very firm at Dalgely's sheep skin sales on Friday last, 31st July. Other descriptions were par to 2d per lb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposal on Wheat
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Victorian Government was strongly in favor of wheat stabilisation, but it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain saves wheat
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 6
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Rain over most of inland N.S.W. yesterday and today has saved the wheat crop…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Safeguarding M.I.A. sheep
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 6
Large-area growers bent on preserving the health of growing sheep numbers on the M.I.A. by supplementary feeding are choosing their pasture hay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Week in Wool
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald
With the opening of the new wool selling season only a month off, there is conflict of opinion in Bradford and Boston regarding the probable effect…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paris Favors Fine Wool Jersey
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 7
Wool jersey in a variety of weights, weaves and designs is top favorite in Paris this summer, especially for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two States Defer Decision on Wheat
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 4
The Victorian and Queensland Cabinets on Monday deferred their decisions on the Agricultural Council's recommendation for a flat rate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minister Fears Chaos in Wheat Industry
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 6
Failure of the Victorian Government to agree to a 15/- per bushel home consumption price for all Australian wheat would bring chaos to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Great Contradiction—Wheat Surplus — Food Shortage
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 1
Last week a Melbourne newspaper, perhaps by design, carried two stories adjoining each other on the one page. One bore the heading “World Grows Too Much Wheat.” The other carried the title, “World Faces Food Crisis.”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought Dismay Turns to Fears of Floods Wheat Belt Can Expect More Rain
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday — Further soaking rain is falling on the N.S.W. wheat belt today, and farmers say that the drought is broken. There is now so much rain in some areas that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers the "Barometer" of Australia
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wed.: Farmers were the natural barometer of Australia, said the Governor-General (Sir William Slim)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More wheat trucks
Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday N.S.W. Railways are converting 350 42-ton coal trucks into wheat trucks, the manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warning on Wheat Prices
Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday: World prices for wheat had shown a downward trend since the Korean armistice, Mr. R. A. O'Neill, a vice-president of the Formers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →