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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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In the 1930s Kingaroy Shire had a burgeoning peanut industry and was a well established centre for maize production, but it was dairying that was the principal primary industry. As a measure of the industry's growth, the payment to Kingaroy factory suppliers in its first full financial year was £5723. By 1934 this had grown to £157,785. At ...
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 1301–1310) replaced the longtime (65-year) support program for peanuts with a framework identical in structure to the program for the so-called covered commodities (wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, upland cotton, rice, soybeans, and other oilseeds).
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