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Farming & the land, 1954

6,775 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

Confidence Over Wheat "Grow More" Say Experts

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

MOST wheat authorities this week were confident on the future of the Australian wheat industry. One authority, who is one of the State's biggest wheatgrowers, and a member of the State Wheat Committee,…

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Board Won't Cut Price of Wheat

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Australian Wheat Board would not sell wheat at any price, Mr. E. G. Hoy said this week. Mr. Hoy, a N.S.W…

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McLeay's Support Of International Wheat Agreement

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 6

The Acting Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Senator McLeay, said in Canberra yesterday that the International Wheat Agreement, even without the United…

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Miscellaneous Market Reports Country Stock Newcastle: Sheep prices maintained

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 45

There was a fair supply of sheep at the Newcastle saleyards yesterday. Mediumweights and…

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Cross-breeding With U.S. Sheep Urged By Expert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 14

Australian sheepbreeders could produce an excellent type of merino by crossing American Rambouillet merinos with the merinos evolved in this country,…

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Wool Cheque Up £ 20 Mill. To Dec

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 26

RECEIPTS from wool sales in Australia for the six months ended December 31 totalled £200.816,943. This compared with…

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Graham To Fight Commonwealth On £9M. Wheat Retention

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 6

"I will oppose the Commonwealth Government's wheat stabilisation scheme at the Australian Agricultural Council meeting in Melbourne next week because of the retention of the £9,000,000, said the Minister for…

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Temora-Bred Wheat Outstanding In Wagga Grain Trials

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 36

WAGGA: Curlew, a variety bred at the Temora farm and released by the Department of Agriculture in 1948, was the outstanding wheat in the grain trials at the Wagga Agricultural College this year…

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Cattle Die As Creeks Dry Up On Far North Coast

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

LISMORE.—Cattle in the beef-producing areas of Tabulam, Bonalbo and Rappville are dying in large numbers as severe drought conditions continue…

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Big Increase On I Dairy Grant Farm

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 36

A SOUTH COAST Commonwealth Dairy Grant demonstration farm had shown a big increase in production, the dairy branch reported this week…

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Dairy Farms at High Price

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 6

DAIRY farms near to permanent streams, and butter and milk, and meat processing factories, on…

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Big Demand For Dairy Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 8

BRISBANE.—The demand for dairy farms on each side of the Queensland-New South…

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Challenge To Australia To Produce A Better Quality Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 4

Although 1954 is only three weeks old three happenings of great importance have taken place in the Australian wheat industry. And Curiously enough…

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Wheat Lying in Huge Stacks in Canada, U.s

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 39

BATHURST.—Wheatgrowers in Canada and the United States were blaming the Government for what they considered paltry wheat prices, a Bathurst district resident…

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Wheat Growers Confer on Plan Demand on Govt. for Storage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

The president of the Wheatgrowers' Union, Mr. Claude Renshaw, told this week's executive council meeting he…

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The Right Quantity Of Sheep Feed Is Essential In Time Of Drought

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 10

Too little too late is the obituary of many an unsuccessful drought venture, says Dr. G. L. McLymont in his second article on the findings of the Burdekin Request Drought Research Unit. "An appreciation of…

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Share Market, Commerce and Finance [?]all in U.K. wool consumption

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 31

British consumption of wool during November was the lowest since the beginning [?] 1953. Consumption…

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Evatt 'Utterly Wide of Mark' Scilley Answers Fed. Lab. Leader on Wheat

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

SOME politicians had attempted to make political capital out of the world wheat position, the general president of the F.S.A. (Mr. W. R. Scilley) said this week. The Federal Labor…

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F.S.A. News and Notes Rail Freights Stand On Wheat, Other Primary Goods

The Land · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 16

RAIL freights on wheal and other primary products were reasonable, and no alteration could be made. Mr. E. Wetherell, Minister for Transport, has sent…

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WORLD - Wide News in Brief -- the Page That Keeps You Up to Date Privy Council upholds decision on wool tax

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 9

LONDON, Fri. -- Australian woolgrowers will have to pay tax on about £A50 million received under the Wool Realisation Distribution of Profits Act, 1948. This is the effect of a…

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