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Riverina · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1954

1,932 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 97

Wheat payments

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Final payment to growers who delivered wheat to No. 15 pool, 1951/52 season, will be made…

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Melbourne wool sales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Despite the fact that the catalogues of 8100 bales showed the lateness of the…

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Wool Selling Season Is Nearing End. Good Clips for Sale At Brisbane

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 6

Resumption of wool auctions in Brisbane and Melbourne this week bring the 1953-54 Australian wool sell-…

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Disease threat to M.I.A. £250,000 fruit crop

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 4

The value of M.I.A. pome fruit crops is approaching the quarter million pound mark, and growers in recent years hove increased the intensity of their spray attacks to ward off pest and disease attacks…

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Wool campaign

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Australian Wool Bureau chairman C. B. Ball has flown to London to discuss a world…

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White Wool Alpaca

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 4

Vita Nebbla of Turin designs this unusual white wool Alpaca dress with wide neckline and cross over…

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£248 Million Worth of Wool Exported

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 7

Australia exported 665,750,000lbs. of greasy wool worth £248,494,000 in the eight months ended…

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Wallet Wool Pack Returne Dfrom Japan

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 7

A Goulburn man, who lost his wallet while packing wool in a bale last November recovered it this week—in…

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Russian Move May Lower . Wool Prices

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 9

Wool - selling authorities this week said that Russia’s withdrawal as a buyer of Australian wool would tend…

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Average Price Per Lb. of Wool Is Dearer

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 10

With the clip down bt 115,000 bales in Victoria and South Australia, and by 37,600 bales over all States, as compared with the . first nine months of 1952-53, the woolselling season is running to a dose with offerings to come…

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Winning Crop may Yield 120 Bushels Per Acre H.nicholls and W.brown’s Success in Field Maize Farmers Must Assist Rich River Flats

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 6

The Field Maize competition, conducted by the Gundagai P. and A. Society, was won by Messrs H. Nicholls and W. Brown with a crop estimated to yield 120 bushels to the acre…

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Labor’s Wheat Plan Mr. Fairbairn’s Vigorous Attack

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 8

It come as no surprise to him to learn that N.S.W. Agriculture Minister, Mr. E. H. Graham, had praised Dr. Evatt’s election plan for wheat, because Mr. Graham…

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Farmers' Friend

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 1

DR. PHILIP V. CARDON, an agricultural scientist with 43 years' experience, has had a long and distinguished career…

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Graziers' 'Wool Week' funds

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

The Wagga branch of the Graziers' Association will ask each of its 170 financial members for an immediate donation of £2…

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Competition for Wool Week Posters

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

The winning poster in a competition to be held in connection with Wagga Wool Week Trill be exhibited at the…

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Extensions to N.s.w. Bulk Wheat Stores Announced

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production (Mr. E. H. Graham) today announced big extensions to the bulk wheat storage…

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Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of out correspondents) Labor Party's wheat plan

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

SIR.—In 1945, Mr. J. B. Chifley made a statement to the effect that subsidisation of an industry by the…

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Two farmers at Wyalong to try again

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4

Two young Wyolong district fanners who competed unsuccessfully for the 1953 Riverina field wheat championship plan to try again with their crop this year…

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Sub Division Important Factor In Dairying

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4

Sub division is one of the most important factors in effee-grassland management, points out the Division of Plant…

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Plans made for wheat storage

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. McEwen), announced today that the Commonwealth Government has approved…

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