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Farming & the land, 1947

7,367 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Prime Sheep Dearer Flemington Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 8

Rates for good quality sheep and lambs advanced from 1/ to 2/ a head, and in places more, at Flemington yesterday…

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Price of Wheat May Drop

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 14

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Delegates to the Agricultural Council have been told to expect a sharp recession in the world…

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Experts Tip Slump In Wheat Price

The Sun · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 7

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--A serious slump in wheat prices within two years is expected by…

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Firm Prices for Wool in Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 18

The new series of Sydney wool sales yesterday opened firm for all descriptions of merinos, comebacks, and crossbreds…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney. Monday, February 3

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Saturday, February 1, 1947, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Japan Needs Our Wool Demand For Dollar Credit Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 6

TOKYO, Feb. 3.—If a deal is made for shipments of Australian wool to Japan it will be the largest economic project yet worked out…

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Better Butter Outlook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 9

Butter production in the northeastern corner of New South Wales should show an appreciable rise this month as a result of recent saturating…

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Butter Production Affected by Drought

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 15

Drought in the butter area in New South Wales has been so severe that production in the last; six months of 1946 was…

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America's Damaging Wool Tariff

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 2

PROTECTIVE tariffs on wool which no longer serve their designed purpose are costing the United State more than £A31,000,000 a year…

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Price for Wheat Future Trend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Australian Agricultural Council at a meeting to-day was told that although there was a serious world…

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Knitting Wool May Be Scarcer

The Sun · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 3

Knitting wool is expected to become scarcer still if the waterfront dispute continues. Almost all knitting wool on…

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Australia Warned Of Wheat Price Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 7

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--State Agriculture Ministers attending the Agricultural Conference in Canberra, believe wheat prices will fall sharply within the next two years…

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Wool Buying Not ''Flash In Pan"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 21

The fact that exports of greasy wool from Australia up to December 31 this season were 1,826,495 bales or nearly twice…

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Wool Buying Not ''Flash In Pan"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 21

The fact that exports of greasy wool from Australia up to December 31 this season were 1,826,495 bales or nearly twice…

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Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney. Tuesday, February 4

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 4

All overseas quotes are for Monday, February 3, 1947, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…

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Wool Sales in Liverpool. First Venture "Very Satisfactory"

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 4

It is expected that the next wool sales at the Port of Liverpool will ake place this month. The recent sales of Dominion wool—the first…

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T.B. in Dairy Cows Victorian Campaign for Eradication

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 4

The Victorian Labor Government's campaign for the eradication of tuberculosis dairy cattle already contained…

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Farm Mechanisation Saved Russia

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 9

MOSCOW, Wednesday. -- Drily greatly increased mechanisation in agriculture prevented a year of starvation in Russia worse than 1921 when rainless months turned the…

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Farm Mechanisation Saved Russia

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 9

MOSCOW, Wednesday. -- Only greatly increased mechanisation in agriculture prevented a year of starvation in Russia worse than 1921 when rainless months turned the…

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On The Land Big Demand for Grain Sorghum Success Of Irrigated Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1947 · page 9

Gram sorghum was likely to be in "tremendous demand" in New South Wales this season, said the senior agricultural instructor on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, Mr. W. R. Watkins, yesterday. Already one of the largest coastal…

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