Your digital subscription includes access to all content on our agricultural websites across the nation. 
Access unlimited content and the digital versions of our print editions - This Week's Paper.

Farm Online

Farm Weekly

North Queensland Register

Queensland Country Life

Stock & Land

The Land

Stock Journal

Rural Life

Take a tour through the Stock Journal archives, as we revisit May 1982 - a month filled with dairy bull sales and the popular Burra combined sheep market.

Donald Holt, Delny Station, Alice Springs, NT, paid a then-record $8400 for the champion bull Kelso Trevor at the Naracoorte Shorthorn bull show and sale.

Sheep being loaded aboard the Om Al Qora, bound for the Middle East. A strike by maritime unions meant the shipment was held up for two weeks before being loaded.

At Roseworthy Agricultural College;s 1982 Graduation Day were Premier David Tonkin, college director Barry Thistlethwayte and college council president Kim Kelly.

Noel Johncock checks the level of oats in his airseeder at Cooke Plains.

Linda Filsell about to take the plunge as Ravenslea Campbell takes a water jump during the state horse trial championships at Echunga.

Coaxing wether lambs out of his truck at the Naracoorte market was Neil Peterson, Sandwood, Langkoop, Vic.

Recipients of the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA prizes at the Roseworthy Agricultural College Graduation Day Michael Roberts and John Squires receive congratulations from RAHS president John Duncan (left) and society director Ron Sedsman (right).

Inspecting the cattle after the successful fourth Colena Holstein-Friesian sale at Mount Compass are buyer Allan Dunn, Finniss, Colena principals Colin and Kay Ekers, buyer Lindsay Dunn, Finniss, and Austock Bennetts Farmers auctioneer Allan Peglar.

Inspecting the 'green revolution' on Orange Creek Station near Alice Springs, NT, are station owner Terry Karger, Southern Cross Machinery Alice Springs branch manager Terry McCumiskey, Orange Creek irrigation project partner 'Doc' Cunningham and Southern Cross Machinery SA and NT manager George Raven.

This whiteface calf travelled to Naracoorte market in style with Eddy Burge, Oin-moor, Naracoorte. There was no safe room for it on the back of the truck with the six cows already aboard, so Eddy put it on the front seat.

Senior plant breeder Gil Hollamby and Advisory Board of Agriculture members Mel Prior, Gladstone, and Peter Dunn, Rudall, with a new line of wheat being trialled at Roseworthy.

Duncan Young, Big Plain, Penola, gave 2.5-year-old daughter Lucy a quick lesson in cattle valuing at the Naracoorte Market.

Wayne Green, Redbrook, Beachport, and Bennetts Farmers Millicent's Tom Cushion were looking to buy steers at Naracoorte.

Angus Lucas, Yumali, and Braithe Selleck, Wasleys, at the Gepps Cross sheep market.

Anthony Hyme and his father Eric, Mallala, at the Gepps Cross sheep market.

Jeff Arney, Bordertown, unloads Dorset-cross lambs at Naracoorte with the help of his son Darren.

Bennetts Farmers Burra manager Andrew Butler takes the final bid on a pen of ewes at Burra.

Malcolm Nickels, Black Hill, Burra, looks at the wethers he bought at Burra with Bennetts Farmers Mount Pleasant's Trevor Anderson.

Max Trengrove, Bute, and Bennetts Farmers Adelaide's Bruce Smith, at Burra.

John Kirkham, The Cliff, Ashbourne, with Elders Strathalbyn's Don Cullen at the Burra combined sheep sale.

Les Brown, Warooka, and Elders Yorketown's David Koch at the Burra combined sheep sale.

Bennetts Farmers' Ian Renshaw, tries his hand at applying a new pour-on cattle drench.

Ken Brown, formerly of Belmont station, Broken Hill, NSW, at the Burra combined sheep sale with Bennetts Farmers Burra manager Andrew Butler and Alan Drew, Burra.

Cataloguing prices at the Belmont-Vinedale combined Friesian sale at Springton are Christine Zerk, Krezleeton, Springton, and Glenda Rathjen, Glenjoy, Springton.

Colin Low with his son Lawrence and grandson Kevin.

Young Paul Edward (front), Echunga, puts the pressure on neighbour Leith Rothe in the cattle judging contest at the Guernsey field day at Meadows.

Rod Binns, Nharee, Antwerp, feeding Poll Dorset yearling ewes destined for Fiji.

Jack Adams, Jaylea, Ponde, leads Jaylea Sovereign Balfour in the ring at the fourth Strathalbyn dairy bull sale. The bull was bought by Ken Willsmore, Iloura Farms, Inman Valley, for $600.

Strathalbyn dairy bull sale vendors Charlie Duggan, Halowie, Benayeo, via Apsley, Vic, Jack Adams, Jaylea, Ponde, Murray Putland, Memory Court, Delamere, and Gloria Afford, Billabong, Jervois.

Dean Whitford, Roslyn Heights, Parana, and his father Brian were vendors at the fourth annual Strathalbyn dairy bull sale.

United Farmers and Stockowners general secretary Grant Andrews celebrates 20 years in agro-politics with long-serving colleague, assistant general secretary Colin Slee.

Roche-Maag state sales manager Ken Wehr, Bennetts Farmers product manager Ian Renshaw and Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort merchandise department member Don Barker at a promotion for Barrel herbicide.

Barossa Valley Holstein-Friesian sale's most successful vendors Margaret and Wes Seeliger, Westdama, Eden Valley.

At the Barossa Valley Holstein-Friesian sale at Angaston were vendors Sue and Graham Secomb, Serenity Farm, Birdwood, and Cyril Cockshell, Hemsford, Willaston.

Tending to Immanuel College farm's horse are college principal RG Paterson, parent Juan Hooper, and agricultural science teacher Peter Ladyman.

Maurice Jamieson, Snowtown, delivering 12 Large White pigs to Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort pig auctioneer Bruce Dunn.

The chief sorter at a Taipei scouring plant with rubbish found in Australian wool.

Sir Condor Laucke, Minister of Agriculture Mr Chapman, Andrew Michelmore and Neil Andrew inspecting part of the Nuriootpa Research and Advisory Centre's new laboratory-office complex.

Bert Willis, Tarlee, with his sons Keith and John at the Gepps Cross sheep market.

Joan Palmer, Benalla, Vic, presents the Ken Palmer Memorial Trophy to Alister McKoy, exhibitor of Wodonga Hereford national show and sale grand champion led bull Ohio Inquisitor.

Flashback Friday – May 1982

Get the latest SA news in your inbox