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Farming & the land, 1954

1,932 stories in Riverina's papers · page 46 of 97

Programme to Boost Dairy Industry

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday: An eight-point programme for the healthy future of the dairying industry was placed…

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Says farmers more efficient

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Some critics attacked farmers, and blamed them for inefficientcy and laziness, when really farmers were more efficient than…

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Wagga Special Cattle Sale

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co. Ltd, and R. H. Blake & Co., Wagga, report a very highly sucessful special sale of 960…

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Commercial Wagga Sheep Market

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 4

The Associated Agents of Wagga—New Zealand Loan Co. Ltd., R. H. Blake and Co., A.M.L. and F. Co. Ltd…

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Wool Prices Higher

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 8

Exceptionally strong competition from Bradford developed for better styled fleece at the second…

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District Success at Sheep Show

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

We congratulate Messrs. J. A. Parmenter & Sons upon the awards gained, against very strong…

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Firmer Tendency in Sheep Market

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 4

Reduced supplies of 26, 824 sheep and lambs at Homebush on Monday, June 21, resulted in a…

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Plan for wheat consumption

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The union should exploit every avenue so that additional wheat could be consumed in Australia, the chairman of the wheat section…

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Prime Cattle to £2 Dearer

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 6

There was a stronger tone in evidence at the Homebush Cattle Sales on Monday when a…

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Slight fall in wool production

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Thursday: A slight fall in Australian wool production during the 1953/54 season is shown in official figures released here today…

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The Week in Wool Dalgety's News Service

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 6

Reluctance of the world wool trade to wind up the selling season with values embrra[?]ngly high for the basis for next…

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Keen Demand for Wool. Competition Grows As Supply Drops

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 2

With the wool trade nearing the final week of the 1953-54 selling season in Australia, buyers are still…

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Sydney Wool Sales Close Strong Competition Is Reported. SYDNEY

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 5

Messrs Winchcombe Carson today report having sold 7,850 bales of wool at auction and privately at the…

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Water Harvesting Impresses Farmers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 4

The growth of interest in water harvesting in Australia is one of the signs of an increasing appreciation of the fact that it is possible to increase production enormously from even the poorest of land by application of common-sense methods…

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£1,255,000 Paid to Rice Growers First payment on this year's crop

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 2

The Rice Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales on Wednesday made a first payment of £20 per ton to the rice growers on almost 63,000 tons of paddy rice. This payment…

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District Council of Adults to Assist Junior Farmer Movement

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 1

The Leeton and District Junior Farmers' organisation, in appointing an adult council, to function similarly to those…

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M.I.A. Agricultural Extension Notes Farm mites attacking pastures Farmers Warned to Be on Look-out

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1954 · page 3

Outbreaks of red-legged earth mites in parts of the M.I.A. and adjoining irrigation districts have been reported by Agronomist Don Wallin, of M.I.A. Agricultural Service…

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Inferior butter on market?

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Complaints that inferior butter was being sold and the public exploited were voiced…

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The tangled skein of world wheat prices

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1954 · page 6

We are still waiting patiently for accurate information as to what is happening on the world wheat front. There are plenty of rumors about. Many of them are of…

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Leadership school for young farmers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: A Leadership School for young farmers is to be held at Evans' Head between August…

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