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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1948

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Gigantic Gamble In Wheat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday.-- A Chicago trader, E. T. Maynard, made between £75,000 and £100,000 in four days by selling 1,000,000 bushels of wheat and trading in cotton, oats, and other commodities, the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Clinton Anderson) said yesterday…

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Wheat Talks Break Down

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wednesday. -- The Wheatgrowers' Federation today broke off negotiations with the Federal Government for a long term wheat…

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Gigantic Gamble In Wheat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday.-- A Chicago trader, E. T. Maynard, made between £75,000 and £100,000 in four days by selling 1,000,000 bushels of wheat and trading in cotton, oats, and other commodities, the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Clinton Anderson) said yesterday…

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Gigantic Gamble In Wheat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Thursday.-- A Chicago trader, E. T. Maynard, made between £75,000 and £100,000 in four days by selling 1,000,000 bushels of wheat and trading in cotton, oats, and other commodities, the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Clinton Anderson) said yesterday…

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Wheat control goes to States

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 11

CANBERRA, Thursday.-- Only possibility of an Australia-wide scheme now seems to be if wheat prices…

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Wheat Plan Collapses No Compromise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Commonwealth plans for an immediate Australiawide wheat stabilisation…

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Wool Prices Rise 5 Per Cent

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.-- A Newcastle record price [?] 111d was obtained at today wool sales for five bales…

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Junior Farmers

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 6

Mr. C. Mason, of Frogmore Road, Orchard Hills, and the popular President of the Orchard Hills-Kingswood Junior Farmers' Advisory Committee,…

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Dairy Factory Manager's Appeal

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

Mr. Alex. Larking, manager of Nepean Dairy Factory, writes: The supply of milk to the local factory, which increased recently to 6000…

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Farmers' demands

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 2

Central western primary producers will ask for the abolition of unnecessary restrictions, and a review of…

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Another Big Crop Forecast

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.). -- Prospects of another 1,000,000,000 bushel wheat…

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Sheep, Cattle, Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 12

YARRAN Pastoral Co, controls a holding of 11.000 acres of undulating and hill country 25 miles north-west of Wyalong. Some…

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Cattle Prices Lower

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 12

An increased supply of 26,907 sheep was yarded. A firm market ruled, but lambs were weaker at closing auctions…

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Wheat Receivals

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 7

BY to-day about 70,000,000 bushels of wheat will have been received at N.S.W. silos and stacks form the current harvest…

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Wheat Price

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 8

THERE may be weaknesses in the Commonwealth's plan to stabilise the price of wheat…

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Wool Record

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 17

NEW SOUTH WALES record price of 132d. was paid for five bales of greasy Merino at the Newcastle wool sales yesterday…

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First Wheat Payment

The Land · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

MANY wheatgrowers have been inquiring why they have been receiving first advances of 5/- a bushel, bagged, and 4/6 a…

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Wool Price Record

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- A New South Wales record wool price of 132d lb. was…

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Minister & Wheat Handling Committee

The Land · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

THE Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) writes:—"It was not my intention to reply further to the incorrect statement…

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Sheep Branding Now Optional In Tasmania

The Land · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 18

AMENDMENTS to the Stock Act in Tasmania, which have recently become law, make the branding of sheep optional instead of…

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