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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

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No. 14 Wheat Pool Payment

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 3

The final payment on the 1950/51 Wheat Pool was made on December 10. The payment was…

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Wheat Train Derailed at the Rock: Services Hit

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 2

The derailment of part of a wheat train near The Rock yesterday morning disrupted rail services between Wagga and Albury until early this morning…

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Wheat Train Derailed at the Rock

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 1

THESE TRUCKS were among the ten which left the lines just south of The Rock on Thursday morning. The…

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Many M.I.A. apricot crop losses

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 2

GRIFFITH, Sun.: About one third of the entire Murrumbidgee Irrigation Ares apricot crop this year has…

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Wool Reports Melbourne Wool Sales

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 3

Referring to the December series of Melbourne Wool Sales the Australian Estates Co. Ltd. reports:…

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Wheat Premium Highest Ever

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 8

More than 1,250,000 bushels of premium grade wheat has been received by the Australian Wheat Board as premium grade from…

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World Production of Rice and Wheat

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 1

Significant developments in wheat and rice production and marketing are referred to in the in the latest news summary issued by…

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Rain Saves Farmers Thousands

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Primary producers' representatives say the weekend rain has saved farmers many…

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M.i.a. Will Have Large Grape Crop

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 4

A large wine grape crop is indicated on the M.I.A. this year, with young bunches showing up in plenty and few reports coming in of disease threats, thanks…

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Fined for betting on Yanco farm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Patrick Vincent Quinlivan was charged at the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday of last week with…

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Farmer with gun Interrupted Raid on Fowl Yard

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 2

Barry Wilson, aged 19, of Burnie, Tasmania, was charged at Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday of last…

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with the man on the Land New Year Wool Sales Prospects Encouraging

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 9

Wool sales continue in recess, New Year sales not being scheduled to commence until Monday, January 11…

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Dutchman, Here 14 Years, Is Successful, Tulip Farmer

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 9

A 41 year old Dutch flower grower, Mr. Cornelius Tesselaar, of Silvan, Victoria, says: ”If a man…

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Wheat for Stock Feed

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 6

There is a lively demand for wheat for livestock and poultry. Mr. G. G. Nicholls, State Superintendent of the…

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Land Value in Wheat Costing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: The value of land allowed for in the wheat costing is not today's market value, but that used by the Commonwealth Bank for its banking purposes…

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Widespread Demand for Wool Some Encouraging' Features

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:--A most encouraging feature of the wool season in Australia for the first half of the…

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Sale of U.S.A. Wheat To Japan

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 6

The recent decision of the U.S.A. Government to self on the open market, wheat from the country’s huge stock pile, was soon implemented…

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For the man on the land There Are Dangers Ahead of the Dairying Industry

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 4

Another round in the struggle for stabilisation of the dairying industry has been won by the decision of the Sydney Metropolitan Milk Board not to yield to the demand of outside interests for reduced prices…

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Estimated wheat sowings are low

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.: Estimated wheat sowings in Australia in 1953/54 will, again be the lowest for any peacetime year since 1925/26…

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Will Try to Sell Our Wheat in the East

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: In a bid to dispose of the huge wheat surplus in Australia, the Australian Wheat Board…

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