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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1953

2,307 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 116

Bulk Wheat Board?

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The State Government would receive a recommendation to establish a board to ensure complete…

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Recommended varieties of wheat for 1953

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 6

The following are the recommendations of the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture of varieties for the…

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World Wool Production Shows Increase in 1952

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 2

World wool production in 1952 is estimated at 4,170 million pounds grease basis, an increase of approximately 140 million…

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Auction Sale of 2-Acre Farm Near Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 3

Mr. T. E. Wright, licensed auctioneer, Leeton, reports having submitted Mr. D. R. Bassett's 2-acre farm situate on…

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Sheep and Wool Classes Begin More Students Are Vitally Necessary

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 5

The 1953 session for the technical education Sheep and wool classes commenced at the Scouts Hall, Junee, on…

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No Feeling of Wool Alarm World Absorbing All Available

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 8

All reports indicate that wool retains its popularity as a textile fibre. The use of other fibres is the world's…

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Fallow After Wheat

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 6

With the completion of the wheat harvest farmers must now turn to the cultivation of fallows and to the preparation of short summer fallow…

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Home Wheat Prices Stable?

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday—The consumption prices of wheat will not necessarily be affected by any increase in the maximum…

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Wool Should Survive Textile Revolution

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 4

Are sheep going the way of the silkworm? Or can wool hold its own against the many new synthetic…

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U.s. Wants Higher Wheat Prices

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): The United States has firmly informed wheat-importing nations that it…

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Farmers' Right to Shoot Dog

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 2

Brutus, a pedigree Alsatian dog which became a film and radio star, was shot by a farmer after it had bitten a sheep. And, said Judge…

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Cowra Farm Worker on Forgery Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—A Cowra farm worker was sentenced to a year's gaol by Judge Redshaw in the Quarter…

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The Week in Wool

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 2

Wider competition from Britain. Italy, Germany and Japan, and the first really concentrated buying by U.S.A., restored stability to…

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Wool Variations Use Of Other Fibres

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 3

Winchcombe. Carson Ltd. report:--The current wool season has been notable because of the absence of any great fluctuations…

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For the man on the land Wheat Price Battle in Washington

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 4

The wheat price battle is on. It started this week in Washington and is likely to continue for more than a month, so that it may easily be the end of March before Australia's representatives return to tell us all about it…

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M.I.A. Agricultural Extension Notes Problem of M.I.A's missing 'teeth' gap for farmers to fill

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 4

Here and there throughout the Irrigation Areas, vacant blocks where old plantings have been rooted out, show up like gaps in a set of teeth. This week, M.I.A. Agricultural Service reports, inquires have begun to come in…

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For the man on the land Cautious Confidence in Wool

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 5

Now that the second half of the wool telling season has completed its initial run there is every reason for satisfaction with the course it is takng. Confidence and caution…

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Wool Report

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 2

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Co. Limited report under date of 3rd February, 1953:…

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Today's Homebush Market Prime Lambs Cheaper; Cattle Dearer

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 1

The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Company report that there were, 12,627 sheep, 8110 lambs and 6,619 suckers, all of…

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Japan Forces Up Short-wool Values

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 4

Under intensified demand from Japan for the shorter descriptions of free 64’s/70’s fine wools at Sydney wool sales on…

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