Wheat Storage Critics
Attacks on the Federal Government for failure to tackle the wheat surplus problem satisfactorily were a feature of this week's debate on the Emergency Wheat Storage Bill…
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SHEEP Scientists And Breeders Discuss Fleeces
English textile scientists from Yorkshire welcomed the chance to discuss fleece characteristics and their importance in worsted processing with Merino breeders last week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep on coast Face Many Difficulties
High costs, distributed in a number of directions, are likely to prevent any great expansion of sheep production in coastal and near-coastal areas, of N.S.W., because sheep on the coast can prove a headache…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Federal Govt. Under Fire Over Wheat
CANBERRA: The Federal [?]vernment's handling of Aust[?]lian wheat sales came under [?]e n the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beef Cattle Can Argentine Keep Up Export Surplus?
There are doubts as to whether the Argentine can increase or even maintain its present surplus beef for export. Mr. R. W. Linkson…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Letter To The Editor Maize Cobs As Cattle Feed
SIR,—I noticed with interest a brief reference in your issue of August 19, headed: "Maize cobs may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Confident Note At Sydney Wool Sales
Woolbrokers said there was a more confident tone about yesterday's session of the Sydney wool sales and the fail in values was halted, British interests buying more…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Valuable Book For Dairy Farmers
Dairy farmers had found the book, Dairy Farming In Australia, to be of great value in the management of their farms, Federal and State departmental officials said this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News From England World Grain Output Declines; Wheat Down 25%
After rising continuously in the five preceding years to 20 per cent, above the pre-war average, world production of grain declined in 1954-55. Reduced output of wheat, maize and rice was the main cause of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →N.Z. Dairy Expert: "Streamline Buildings To Cut Dairy Costs"
LISMORE, — The modernisation and streamlining of Australian dairy buildings would do much to solve many of the problems associated with the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Dairymen Demand Apology From Fadden
Over 200 members of the Gloucester branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council last week resolved to send a telegram to the Federal Treasurer, Sir Arthur Fadden,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Animal Power For 80% Of World Farming
In spite of the. advance of agricultural machinery, 80 per cent, of the world's farm production depends on work by animals, Dr. K. V. L. Kesteven, Chief of the Animal Production branch of the Food and Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fed. Govt. Slated Over Dairy Subsidy Policy
MELBOURNE.—The Commonwealth Government came under severe criticism, ending with a vote of no-confidence, at a meeting of 1000 people — mainly dairy-farmers — at Warrnambool, in south-western…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DAIRYING 11 For Lifetime Section Of Herd Recording Plan
Eleven pure-bred dairy cows, four Jerseys, two Australian Illawarra Shorthorns, one Ayrshire, three Friesians and a Red Poll, qualified for the Lifetime Section of the Official Government Purebred Cattle Herd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Winners In F. And S. Dairy Contest ©
The Taree District Dairy Officer, Mr. D. W. Crowfoot, said this week that the Milk Board Section District winner in The Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition was Mr. L. T. Amos, of Long Flat, Wauchope, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bigger Citrus Crop Forecast
It is estimated that main-crop citrus production will total 3,100,000 bushels this…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Market Garden Big Range Of Crops For Planting Now
Losses early in the year because of floods, together with the comparatively slack winter period, will spur many growers on to greater efforts during the spring and summer in an endeavor to recover lost ground…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Farm Hint Wins 10/6
The life of fence posts, particularly corner post strainers, can be extended by putting…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Week-end Magazine German Farming Switching From Hand Labor To Tractors
According to an American professor who recently visited farms in Southern Germany, primitive farming is the keynote of that country's agriculture. Primitive is a word…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Record M.I.A. Rice Crops Are Due To Better Methods
GRIFFITH.—Changed practices are the cause of new rice production peaks on the M.I.A., according to the area agronomist, Mr. Don Wallin. "Apart from…
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