Wool Prices Firm In Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, Thursday.— The Newcastle wool sales closed to day with prices very firm on the opening rates last…
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Lower Wool Values; Recent Market Trends Reviewed (By "The Land" Wool Trade Correspondent)
ALTHOUGH the first news of wool sales this week appeared to indicate that there had been a further substantial weakening In values, this was hardly as serious as reports seemed to indicate…
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WASHINGTON, Friday. (A.P.).--United States' wool production for 1951 of 250,445,000 lb. was slightly above the 1950 level, marking for the first time in almost a…
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WASHINGTON, Friday. (A.P.).--United States' wool production for 1951 of 250,445,000 lb. was slightly above the 1950 level, marking for the first time in almost a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Taxation Is Countryman's Biggest Headache Cautious Attitude To Spending Will Hit Pastoral Industry
TAXATION, with emphasis on provisional tax, has suddenly become a focal point of interest for practically all the primary producers throughout rho countryside. At present it is the cause of much head scratching among farmers and graziers…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Floor Price Plan For Wool Operating In New Zealand
A MINIMUM floor prices plan for new Zealand wool came into operation in the Dominion in January. The New Zealand Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Less Wheat Will Help Lift Fertility of Our Soil (By "The Land" Agricultural Consultant)
THE decline in wheat acreage in New South Wales will help improve the fertility of much-cropped land. Economists and…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Review of the Week's Markets Dairy Produce Sussex Street Wholesale Markets)
The State Marketing Bureau ports—BUTTER: Good falls rain have been received North Coast areas, and…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Farming Here "Like Back in the States" by Our Special Representative
YOUNG American farmer Keith Burt thinks farming here is "just like that back in the States." Keith is a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decision in April On Dairy Plan
(CANBERRA, Wed.—A special meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, probably early in April, will decide on a new stabilisation plan for the dairying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prices for U.k.bulk Purchases of Aust. Dried Fruits Crop
THE British Ministry of Food will purchase our bulk Australian dried vine fruits of the 1952 crop at £100(A.) F.O.B. Australian ports per ton for currants and £123/2/6(A.) a ton for sultanas and lexias…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON and Off the Farm Farm Irrigation Demonstration
Described as one of the most interesting and instructive field days ever held in the district, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wakool Farms for Soldiers
TEN farms on the 29,000-acre property, Cunninyeuk, in the Wakool…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →F.S.A. Field Day at Yanco FarmF
A large attendance is expected at the field day arranged at Yanco Experiment Farm by the…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →What's New in Farm Research Oil from Seed
TOBACCO seed is about the smallest in size and the lightest in weight of any agricultural crop…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farmers Bluntly Tell Menzies Reasons For Food Scarcity No Balance Between Industry Correction Measure Outlined
A DEPUTATION from the National Farmers' Union told the Primo Minister (Mr. Menzies) this week that the main reason for the food production lag was a lack of balance between the growth of primary and secondary industries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cowra farmers repeat win
MEMSIE Pastoral Company, Mayfield, Cowra, for the second year in succession won the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board's 100 guineas gold trophy for three export lamb carcases in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Better farming paid well in drought period
EFFICIENT methods had helped many dairy farmers on the North Coast during the prolonged dry period of 1951-52, according to some observations made by Mr. N. Simons, H.D.A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →High yields by crossbred dairy cows
PERFORMANCE or [?] dairy cows under actual farm conditions continues to pile up evidence of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Junior Farmers Great Ernie Owe a Great Debt to Ernie Breakwell
"THOUSANDS of young men and women in country districts owed a great debt of gratitude to Ernie Breakwell for the opportunities ho opened up for them through the development of the Junior farmers' Club Movement…
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