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This silo could contain up to 4,372 tons of peanuts. This silo was constructed and opened during 1938 at a cost of £57,750 of which £46,000 was advanced by the Commonwealth Bank under Queensland Government guarantee. [1] [2] The Kingaroy Peanut Silos were officially opened on 1 December 1938 by the Minister for Agriculture and Stock, Frank ...
Kingaroy (/ k ɪ ŋ ə ˈ r ɔɪ /) [2] is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. [3] [4] The town is situated on the junction of the D'Aguilar and the Bunya Highways, 218 kilometres (135 mi) north-west of the state capital Brisbane [5] and 141 kilometres (88 mi) south west of Gympie. [6]
One of the best known attractions in the area is the peanut-growing district centered on Kingaroy. [4] 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Murgon is the Bjelke-Petersen Dam. Other dams in the region include Gordonbrook Dam and Boondooma Dam. Tarong Power Station and the Tarong National Park are both in the south of the Burnett.
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The Kingaroy Council Chambers, a single storey masonry building with Art Deco decorative features, is located on Haly Street directly opposite Kingaroy's towering peanut silos. In 2012 it forms part of the Kingaroy Visitor Information Centre and is linked to the former power house (now the Kingaroy Heritage Museum) via a connecting building to ...
Before prices plunged last summer, Henebry said he sold some corn for $5.50 to $5.70 per bushel and then for as much as $6.21 per bushel delivered to the grain elevator.
The former Zacky Farms feed silos, lower left, stand near Highway 180 and downtown Fresno on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Producers Dairy, which now owns the land the silos are on, is planning on ...
February 2017 – sale of infant formula canning plant in Derrimut and one spray milk powder dryer in Tatura to US pediatric nutrition company Mead Johnson. December 2017 – acquisition of Peanut Company of Australia in Kingaroy, Queensland. July 2018 – purchase of Koroit milk drying and butter processing facility in Western Victoria from ...