NEARLY 40 years ago, Elder Smith Goldsborough Mort opened a new $5-million wool warehouse complex at Gilman, while Bennetts Farmers launched the first computerised wool system.
In June 1983 editions, Stock Journal also profiled some of the entries in the Farm Innovation Competition, while the Farley and Wright families conducted a clearing sale at McLaren Vale.
The SA Junior Heifer Expo was on, along with a sheep sale at Mallala, Glenlyn Illawarra dispersed its dairy herd at Murray Bridge, while SA studs featured prominently during the National Shorthorn Show & Sale in Dubbo, NSW.
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Alisha Fogden
Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.
Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.
