No Change in Local Wheat
In a very quiet market, local wheat was steady yesterday at 45½ bushel. Very small trade passed at that price, with neither buyers nor sellers anxious to trade…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1938
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Japan Active at Wool Sales
Most of the wool was of average to good quality, with a few better-class lots. Top price in the first sales was 231 a lb., paid for six bales of fine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne
wool sales were resumed in Melbourne to-day. when combined catalogues, totalling about 9000 bales, were submitted. The selection was a good one, being drawn from a wide area. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Tamworth Wheat. Increased Silo Space Wanted
TAMWORTH, Monday.—The president, Mr. W. McRitchie, moved at the annual meeting of the Tamworth District Council of the Primary Producers' union that the capacity…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Japan Bids For A Our Wool
COMPETITION at yesterday's wool sales came mainly from Japan, with good and strong support from the Continental sections of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Estimated Wheat Cheque Nearly £32,000,000
The final estimate of Australian wheat production for 1937-38 is 170,031,000 bushels, worth, at current prices, between £30,000,000 and £32,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Sales. Merinos Continue Firm. Crossbreds Easier
At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 11,712 bales were catalogued. The clearance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools, amounted to l1,216 bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stock Sales. Prices at Flemington. Sheep Firmer on Light Yarding
The lightest yarding for several months was available in the sheep section at Flemington saleyards yesterday, only 23,314 head, comprisimg 15,114 sheep and 8,200 lambs, being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Wool May Be Bought. Tokyo, Feb. 14
It is learned that this week import permit for 80,000 bales of wool for domestic consumption will be issued. It will be Australian wool, it is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Skeleton Weed Control. Work in the Marginal Wheat Belt
Last spring an extensive programme of instiuction regarding weed control was carried out in the central and south-western marginal wheat areas by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the Land Wakool Area. Irrigated Grasses and Crops. Recent Rapid Extension
Irrigation development on the Wakool area is progressing favourably according to a report to the field branch of the Department of Agriculture by Mr. T. P. Taylor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Produce. Dairy
Business opened firm in city dairy houses yesterday. Demand for all lines, particularly cheese, eggs, and ham, was good. BUTTER.—Choicest 151/10 per cwt. including 2/6…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Girl Safe on Farm Parents Distraught with Anxiety
WHILE her distracted parents were fast losing all hope of ever again seeing her alive, and her brother maintained a long, distressing vigil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Charters
The Gemstone has been chartered by Bunge (Aust.) Pty., Ltd., to load 8250 tons of bulk at Now South Wales, rate 31/3, lay days April 1-20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fertility of Merino Sheep
Almost as important as the blowfly problem to sheepmen is that of poor lambing. In the merino this is more marked than in other breeds, and its cause is a matter of growing concern. THE Council for Scientific and…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Melbourne Sheep Sales. Melbourne
At the Melbourne fat [?] sales to-day the offering comprised 27,500 fat sheet, 18,000 fat lambs, and 20,000 store sheep. The sales opened active, but the local trade demand was unsteady in…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Quietly Firm
To quiet trading yesterday the Sydney wheat market showed a firmer tendency/ There was no selling pressure, and shippers were absent, but an improvement was noted…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The Wheat Situation Official Review
The monthly summary of the "Wheat Situation in Australia," issued last week by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tendency for Wheat to Rise
SPECULATORS who had to cover selling orders were mainly responsible for the advance of ½d a bushel in quotes for bulk wheat on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Firm Market at Wool Sales
With strong support coming from all principal buying sections, the market at to-day's wool sales was firm at yesterday's levels…
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