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Farming & the land, 1954

6,775 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

Australian Sheep Expert For Indian Project

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 3

NOTED Corriedale sheep breeder, Dr. S. Goldberg, of Carmel, Griffith, will inspect experimental sheep work being carried out at the foot of the Himalayas,…

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Livestock Review Bidding For Sheep Keen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 12

Sheep buyers from many parts of northern New South Wales weie attracted to Tamworth on Wednesday for the…

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Nearly £9 Mill. Wheat Payment

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 2

A second advance of one shilling a bushel on bulk and bagged wheat, totalling £8,990,417, will…

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New Victoriam Wheat Causing interest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 30

A new Victorian wheat variety, Sherpa, is creating interest. It will soon be released…

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Flood-bound Cattle Get Fodder by Air

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

Police and volunteers help airmen to unload lucerne from a R.A.A.F. relief plane at Evans Head yesterday. The lucerne was flown from Brisbane and then distributed to starving cattle in the Woodburn area…

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Slight Weankess of Wool Values

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 51

A NUMBER of factors have contributed to the weakness in wool values exhibited this week The offering has had something to do with the…

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F.S.A. General President's Letter Victorian Govt. Kills Wheat Plan Which Its Own Farmers Wanted

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 9

FELLOW MEMBERS.—Of all the constituent bodies of the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation none has more wholeheartedly supported the principle of wheat stabilisation than our Victorian colleagues, and if…

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Man for trial on wool charge

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 11

Charles King. 27, grocer, of Hall St.. Bondi, was committed for trial in Central Court today on…

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Wool Stabilising Move in Sth. Africa

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 34

SOUTH AFRICAN woolgrowers have decided that their levy funds of £6,000,000 be kept for a future wool stabilisation scheme…

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How Wheat Marketing Operates In N.Z.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 5

How wheat is marketing in New Zealand is explained in as article in the Wheat Board Gazette. The article was…

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Overlanded Cattle Founded Wave Hill Station In Nth. Territory

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 28

ONE of the oldest and most interesting cattle stations in the vast Northern Territory, which I recently visited, is Wave Hill…

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Finance Some Wool Down 2½ p.c

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 27

Medium to broad types of merino wool fell 2½ p.c. at the Sydney sales yesterday…

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"Bigger Market If Wool Production Costs Lower"

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 6

THE market for Australian wool would expand if costs of production were lower, Dr. P. R. McMahon said this week. Dr. McManon, Professor of Wool Technology in the…

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On the Land Confidence In Wool's Future

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 12

There are many people, especially Americans, who express gloomy forebodings about the future of the wool industry because of the spectacular success…

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Wheat Stabilisation In Limbo Of Lost Says Authority

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Ninety per cent, of Victorian wheatgrowers would vote for the Commonwealth's five-year stabilisation plan if it were submitted to them at a ballot, secretary of the Victorian Wheat and Wool growers…

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U.S. War Over Wheat Prices And Acreage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 34

The United States Senate Agricultural Committee may oppose the flexible price scheme of the Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. Benson…

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Bale of Finest Wool As Present for Queen

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE.—The Australian Wool Bureau will present the Queen with a bale of wool, comprising some of Australia's finest fleeces…

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Dairy News Ayrshire Bull for Bathurst Farm Stud

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 33

THE N.S.W. Department of Agriculture recently imported an Ayrshire bull, Carnell Super Quality, from Scotland. The bull is now at…

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Three New Dairy Farms

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 33

Three new dairy farms have been settled in the Tamworth district under the war service land…

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Teacher Turns Dairy Farmer

The Land · Friday 26 February 1954 · page 33

A schoolteacher has left the Department of Education to become a dairyman…

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