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In Stock Journal 45 years ago, ram sales were firmly under way, the Wudinna Show celebrated its golden jubilee year and the first-ever three-day machinery field days was held at Kadina. Stock Journal also captured Royal Adelaide Show preparations, including a pre-show journalist tour, and then had all the results come September, including who was the 1975 Miss Rural Youth. Love your Flashback Fridays? Here are some more:

The 1975 Journalists' pre-Royal Adelaide Show tour visited the Riverland, where a beef banquet was held at Nangaringa Santa Gertrudis stud, via Loxton. On the tongs were Marie, Peter, Jill, Deidre and Richard Fogden, who cooked up a yearling steer that had dressed out at 300 pounds.

The 1975 Journalists' pre-Royal Adelaide Show tour visited the Riverland, where Don Braund, Renmark, RA&HS trustee John Duncan and RA&HS president  Rex Warnes took in a cruise on John McCoy's Banyandah houseboat.

Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA director RH Sedsman commended Stock Journal for publishing a special Royal Show machinery issue prior to the upcoming Royal Adelaide Show, where the machinery would be on display.

1975 Stock Journal Royal Show Farm Machinery special.

Loxton Research Centre laboratory officer Marcelle Stirling with entomologist Geoff Furness inspecting red scale cultures on pumpkins.

SA Seedgrowers Cooperative members Geoff Rowett, Clem Obst, Murray I'Qnson and Ken Schultz went to Libya to sow some SA seeds as part of the Benghazi Plains agricultural development program.

These Poll Hereford steers from E&JL Hayes, Undoolya Station, sold to $67.50, averaging $65.50 at Gepps Cross market.

Lazy Lamb managing director Trevor Slade thanks Bob Mills for his custom, while company butcher Ross Gunn helps load the car.

Kangarilla beef breeder Bob Mills surveys a side of a steer he consigned to Lazy Lamb.  

Trevor Clasohm, Griff Jones and Jeff Gregory, all from Maitland, at Gepps Cross sheep market. 

Murray and John Lunn with premium piglet producing young boar Glenlock Boy.

Barry Murnane, Peelina, Cummins, with the Gum Vale ram he paid $180 for from studmaster Lawrie Langofrd.

Stock Journal's second 1975 Show Special issue.

Bill Johnson will parachute into the Wayville arena as one of the highlights of the 1975 Royal Adelaide Show.

Blair Place, Smithfield, sold this pen of Dorset-cross lambs at $13.55 a head at Gepps Cross sheep market.

A Pollville Poll Merino stud lamb from the Lehmann Brothers' Flairdale property at Keith. 

Loxmor manager John Moore with Davian managing director Ian Schafer tasting their first run of citrus molasses at Loxton.

Ashrose Merino/Poll Merino group champion from the 1974 Adelaide Show.

North Bungaree Merino/Poll Merino stud ad

Washington Parker explaining his ram cradle at Craig-Forda stud, Watervale.

AMSCOL icecream celebrated 50 years of transporting milk at the Royal Adelaide Show. 

AMSCOL icecream celebrated 50 years at the Royal Adelaide Show. 

Glenda Rathjen preparing heifers before the Royal Adelaide Show.

Mrs, Miss and Mr Keith Opie, Hurds Hill stud, Coromandel Valley, with their show team of Murray Greys.

Elders-GM Port Lincoln manager Jackie May (centre) with Alan Derrington and Noel Russell, who bought this ram for $410 from Len Harris, Mitshan stud, Cummins, at the Southern Eyre Peninsula Stud Merino Fair at Tumby Bay.

Jack Cameron, Curramulka, discussing Canowie Royal Adelaide Show ram sale team with studmaster K 'Chip' Sawers. 

Mike Chennell, Elders-GM Wudinna, with Art Dolphin and the ram lamb they bought for $350 at the first sale of Dusty MacGowan, Kielpa. 

Malcolm and Owen Stubing, Gum Valley, Cleve, were the leading buyers at the Mount Millar sale.

Mrs K Sawers, Canowie, and Mrs WA Carter, Adelaide, at a field day.

Geoff Williams, Bennett & Fisher, Cleve, with client Bob Christian, a prominent buyer at the Glen Clova auction.

Jim Sullivan, Greenfields, Hallett, with Chick Elliott, Tuckey, and Wallaroo Fertilisers EP district officer David Hill at the Southern Eyre Peninsula Stud Merino Fair at Tumby Bay.

Glenville's Barry Smith with $410 Merino buyer Arch Haywood and studmaster Mervyn Smith at the Southern Eyre Peninsula Stud Merino Fair at Tumby Bay.

Bob Tiller, Yupiri, Balaklava, with a Pollville ram he bought for a record $510 from the Lehmann Brothers, Mt Bryan, at the Southern Eyre Peninsula Stud Merino Fair at Tumby Bay. 

Royal Adelaide Show wool judges JEJ Randells and W Brownbill, both from Southern Farmers, had 90 years experience between them.

Stuart Wheal, Peaton, Keith, bought the top price Collinsville ram at $400 from Tom Padbury, Collinsville stud.

B Shanahan, Freeling, sold prime Dorset-cross lambs at $14.05 a head at Gepps Cross. 

Geoff Kokegei, Elders-GM Mt Pleasant, and Robert Groth, Nilkra Park, Mt Pleasant, bought this ram for $1700 from Graham Bell, Bellbro, Tintinara.

RJ Galbraith, Marama, sold these South Suffolk-cross lambs for $10 a head at Gepps Cross sheep market.

Eric Ashby, Ashrose, Hallett, and Kelvin Dunn, Barton Hill, Black Springs.

Various sheep handlers on display at the YP machinery field days.

Elders-GM auctioneer Allen Schmerl selling wool at Port Adelaide.

HV Walcott, Fulham, Kanugulka, Vic, and John Clarkson, Naracoorte, with RG Tonkin, Telangatuk East, Vic, who bought the second-highest price Collinsville ram at $350.

Mrs Ron Collins congratulates Jim Sullivan, Greenfields, Hallett, after winning grand champion Merino ram at the Royal Adelaide Show. Greenfields also won grand champion ewe and best group.

An Italian-made Laverda self-propelled combine harvester at the Horwood Bagshaw stand at the YP machinery field days.

Americna judge W Shain giving tips on beef cattle judging techniques to young handlers.

RC Ness, Keith, sold these Hereford and Poll Hereford calves to $93.50, averaging $87.56, at Gepps Cross market.

Cunliffe WAB members Mrs R Bussenschutt, Mrs K Dayman, Mrs A Schilling, mRS R Duffield, mRS A Gardner and mRS T Koch at the YP machinery field days.

Dean Newbold explaining his hydraulic folding harrow bar - the biggest of its type - cutting 60ft with every pass, at the YP machinery field days.

Representatives from the Waite Research Institute and the Department of Agriculture assessing wheat samples entered into the Royal Adelaide Show agriculture produce section. 

Nantawarra farmer Ray Baum demonstrating the Dillon Oxy Tame gas welding process at the YP machinery field days.

Peter Nicholls, Aundale, Keith; Elders-GM wool technician Wayne Bevan; Bob Hicks, Elders-GM Keith; Alex Mack, Tolcairn, Keith, and James Cozens, Woodgrove, Keith, at the Port Adelaide wool stores. 

AE Sheidow, O Halloran Hill, sodl these Dorset-cross lambs out of BLM ewes at $12.65 a head at Gepps Cross market.

Ted and Bruce Lehmann, Pollville, holding the champion and reserve champion Poll Merino ram from the Royal Adelaide Show.

The best udder class was won by Les Pfitzner, Hampden, at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Masaru Kawasaki (centre) a bee specialist with the Japanese company Kanemastu-Gosho at Gepps Cross with Elders-GM international trading department officer Malcolm Harvey and Stock Journal market expert Jim Cahalan. 

Murray Grey judge Gail Holding, WA, with the senior grand champion bull Cadell Park Major, entered by NC Oliver, Telopea Downs, Vic, and Mrs Malcolm Macdonald, Willalooka, at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Dalwhinnie Dalwhinnie's Poll Hereford was the reserve champion steer at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Glen Echo's Red Poll was the champion led steer on-hoof at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Royal Adelaide Show junior and grand champion Poll Shorthorn female Munduney Lady Augusta 19 with sasher Janet Gray and Munduney stud manager Bob Adam.

Open class Merino judges Norm Jones, John Coy and Ivan Lannin at the Royal Adelaide Show.

John and Brian Hyde with Colin Lyons, Glen Bold, Echunga, with the $3250 Glen Bold bull.

Mrs Philip Withers, Nalpa, Wellington, with Julie Slade about to bell the Simmental junior and grand champion bull shown by Grant Jackson, Glamis, Clarendon, at the Royal Adelaide Show.

LJ&GA Tynan, Jon-Del, Yumali, won both champion medium wool Merino ram under 1000 and the champion strong wool under 1000 at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Dr Nel visiting the Southern Farmers stand in the wool pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Show., with Australian Wool Corporation model Sophie Mehaffey and Department of Agriculture's Brian Jeffries.

1974 Miss Rural Youth Dianne Meakins, from the Barossa Club, and Lands Minister James Casey congratulate 1975 Miss Rural Youth winner Shannon Pfeiffer, from the Gawler Club, at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Albert Lory, Vic, bought this top Barton Hill ram for $12,500 at the Royal Adelaide Show. Also pictured is Barton Hill studmaster Kelvin Dunn and son Hedley, Black Springs. 

Elders-GM auctioneer Chris Paltridge takes the $17,500 bid for a Collinsville ram at the Adelaide Show Merino sale.

EM Beurteaux & Co, Mevora, Nungarin, WA, paid $5250 for this Collinsville ram.

This East Bungaree ram sold for $4250 to JD Price & Sons, Hillsden, WA.

RL Branson, Hamley Bridge, with WC Smith, Castumbool, at the Gepps Cross market.

The Miss Rural Youth of 1975 was Shannon Pfeiffer (pictured centre at back) from the Lower North zone. Also representing were Paquita Eitzen, Yankalilla; Christine Rosewarne, Yorke Peninsula; Glenys Ling, Lower South East; Anne White, Spalding; Genevieve Quirky, Riverland; Monica Dohnt, Karoonda; Janet Woolford, Upper Eyre Peninsula; Heather Milton, Lower EP; Carol Wyly, Kangaroo Island; Beverley Cleggett, Mount Barker; and Julie Hansen, Coomandook.

$1750 Royal Adelaide Show dairy sale topper Onkavale Lin Cognac, which came second in the yearling bull class, held by studmaster George Fechner, and being congratulated by Southern Farmers auctioneer Daryl Brown.

The Ashby group of Graham, Bill, Rob, Brian, Eric, Tom and Jim.

This Collinsville ram topped the Royal Adelaide Show Merino ram sale at $17.500.

Presenting the Stock Journal trophy for the most successful exhibitor during the Adelaide Show was Stock Journal general manager Frank Hill, Bruce Swann and recipient TE Ashby.

Naracoorte High Scool and Lucindale Area School students at Gepps Cross market.

Kevin Thompson, Brentwood, judging the champion beef bull of the show.

Labour-saving animal husbandry techniques on display at the Wudinna Show.

Harry M Miller, Dunmore Manilla, NSW, exhibited the first purebred Simmental female at the 1975 Royal Melbourne Show, Her name was Evelyn.

Wudinna Show's most successful pig exhibitor Reg Harder (centre) with Pig judges Peter Bowyer and Peter Michalanney,

Wudinna Jubilee Show 'old timer' special guests were Art Wagner, Warramboo; Len Pascoe and Arch Shepherd, Port Lincoln; Pat O'Brien, Adelaide; Alf Byrne, Wudinna; Mel Wilmott, Kyancutta; Perce Tonkin, Adelaide; and Arch Patterson, Port Lincoln.

Wool technical lecturer Greg Castle with Alan Herold, Frances; Robert Daddow, Kadina; Roger Cass, Parndana; and JOhn Hall, McLaren Vale.

Mrs Solveig Rees (centre), Colo Charolasi stud, Millicent, with her two pure French Charolais females, held by Brian Barnes and Tony Brewer at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Ken Joyce, Kyimba Santa Gertrudis stud, Cootra, with Ross Rodgers, Trevilla Red Poll stud, Brimpton Lake, at the Wudinna Show.

Mt Alma Polwarths studmaster Eric Ashby, Inman Valley, with Keith Smith, Parndana.

Ian Kelsh with his Greensfield ram he bought from Jim Sullivan, which won the Wudinna Show best ram on the ground.

SJ Shepherd & Co, Balaklava, sold these Border Leicester-cross lambs at $9.15 a head at Gepps Cross.

Helen Tiller, Port Pirie, and Betty Heading, Port Germein, were part of a newly-formed Women's Rural Action Group.

Cabs were now standard equipment on Sperry New Holland combine harvesters and included evaporative coolers, tinted armour plate glass and a roof hatch.

Colin Hope-Murray and son Jim, Aparra Corriedale stud, Binnum, bought this stud ram for $400 at a Struan stud field day at Lismore, Vic.

In Stock Journal 45 years ago, ram sales were firmly under way, the Wudinna Show celebrated its golden jubilee year and the first-ever three-day machinery field days was held at Kadina.

Stock Journal also captured Royal Adelaide Show preparations, including a pre-show journalist tour, and then had all the results come September, including who was the 1975 Miss Rural Youth.

Flashback Friday - August 1975 | Photos

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