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Three $1500 Commonwealth Bank development scholarships went to Roseworthy Agriculture College students Tony Craddock, Snowtown; Gerald Fahey, Evanston Gardens; and David Heinjus, Freeling. 

A young Nick Radford, Clifton Station, Broken Hill, NSW, on the rails at the BUrra sheep market with father Gary. 

Dalgety Bennetts Farmers Yankalilla manager Alan Lee with Craig and Greg Crawford, Yankalilla, at the Gepps Cross sheep market.

Reg and Devin Baum, Auburn, in their storm-affected barley crop.

Graham Heaslip, Gramar, Owen, at the Burra sheep market.

John Michael, Nyowee, east of Balaklava, waiting for his barley to dry out after 100mm fell across two days.

Don Mosey, Mundalla, administering UltraPro 30 blocks as a feed supplement in his flock.

Former Canadian exchange student Nancilee Simard with Leonie Ashby, Taunta Downs, Tintinara, at the Shorthorn feature sale in Keith. Nancilee had returned to Australia to marry Bill Richards, Wyarama, Tintinara.

Louise May, Frances, with her brother-in-law Andrew May, Gemalla, Frances, at the Tintinara-Coonalpyn offshears sale.

New extensions were made at the Tarlee grain silos to help cope with the expected record harvest.

Shorthorns Australia SA secretary Sally Neville, with parents Robin and Pam, Mount Penny Pastoral Co, Tintinara, at the Keith Shorthorn feature sale. 

Compuclip operator Sue Washington demonstrating wool lotting by computer to Marleston School of Wool & Textiles principal Bruce Taylor; lecturers Colin Phillips, Greg Castle, Michael Young and Des Staite; and deputy principal John Patton.

Murray Plains crop contest winner Peter Royal, Sanderston, with Murray Plains crop competition committee chair Kevin Schubert, Cambrai, and competition secretary Barry Ramm, Mannum.

Sanderston farmer Peter Royal won the Murray Plains wheat crop competition with his Warigal sample.

A new International 1482 harvester windrowing barley at Urania.

Pru Day, Allendale studs, Bordertown, serving tea to journalists as part of the pre-Royal Adelaide Show tour.

Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lisa Curry, 21, was a guest speaker at the Women of the Year lunch in Melbourne She was training for the next Olympics in Los Angeles.

Gyrocopters were popular in SA's outback.

Ron Pridham, Nentoura, Naracoorte; Alf Withers, Springwood, Wentworth, NSW; and Sid Hannemann, Camelot, Keith; at the Keith Shorthorn feature sale.

Keith Parker, Kelvin Grove, Holbrook, NSW, holding three-year-old Murray Grey bull Kelvin Grove Storm Trooper, which he sold three quarters to Bill McNamara, Furracabad Murray Grey stud, Glen Innes, NSW, for $20,000, while keeping a quarter share. Storm Trooper was junior and grand champion Murray Grey bull at the 1983 Royal Melbourne Show.   

Gordon Lillecrapp, TodMorden Station, Oodnadatta; with Dalgety Bennetts Farmers auctioneer Alton Smith and stock department's Bruce Smith at the Gepps Cross cattle market.

John Clark, Snowtown, and Jim Nicholls, Lochiel, at the Burra sheep market.

Dalgety Bennetts Farmers Burra's Andrew Butler and Murray Smith with Metro Meat buyer Vern Smith, Adelaide, at the Burra sheep market.

The crowd at the Kingston SE offshears sale.

John Shearer executives Vic Merrett, Allan Leibech, Graham McPherson, Peter McNaughton, and Bruce Grey checking out the company's recently-released five-tonne airseeder.

Rick Joones, Meadow Downs, Orroroo, at the Burra sheep market with Sandy Martin, Coolatoo, Jamestown.

Andrea and Tiffany Miller, Whurlie Station, Wentworth, NSW, with Andrea's mother Sylvia Tiver, Hallett, at the Burra sheep market.

Martin Cook, Ganymede Perendale stud, Mylor, was gifted 10 top stud ewes from New Zealand, after his property was burnt out twice in the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1980 and 1983.

Malcolm Nickels, Blackhill; Vic Pfitzner, Mannum; and Reg Barker, Stockport, at the Burra sheep market.

Elders Livestock Trading manager Warrick Bowden, The Levels, with Lucindale offshears sale vendors Will and Judy McDonald, Fuaran, Penola.

Mary Henderson restored their family homestead at Gumeracha, where she runs the Broadways Border Leicester and Hampshire Downs sheep studs with husband Neil. 

Mark Holman, Lucindale; Kay and Ray Hocking, The Washpool, Avenue Range; and Ray Holman, Bindarrah, Lucindale, at the Lucindale offshears sale.

Noel O'Brien, Bob Chappel, and Rex Glennon overseeing the merger between Dalgety Australia and Bennetts Farmers.

SA senior showjumping champion Michelle Brice, 19, on Coraki at Mallala.

Kybybolite pasture research officer Andrew Craig inspecting a promising new pasture species for the South East.

Department of Agriculture sheep and wool officer Simon Ellis, Mount Barker, injecting ewes with new sheep twinning drug Fecundin, with Rarkang property owner Jon Wiese, Cape Jervis.


John Michael and his brothers, Halbury, were getting into soil conservation management  practices, such as minimum tillage, to help prevent erosion.

The beginning of the end for some of the Michael family's valuable cropping country at Halbury.

Some of the worst of the Michaels' soil erosion.

Trevor Day, Riverton, won a Nuffield Scholarship for his spray-seeder invention.

United Farmers and Stockowners president Michael Shanahan.

The Goode family of Adrian, Edwin and John, Wangolina, Kingston SE; Cliff and Geoffrey of Heathvale, Millicent; and Prue and Deane, Barooka, Kingston SE; at the Kingston SE offshears sale. 

Tom and Bob Legoe sold ewes at the Kingston SE offshears sale.

THIS week's Flashback Friday looks back to the Stock Journal editions of December 1983, when SA terminals were getting 'clogged with grain' during the expected 5mt record harvest, but thunderstorms were wreaking havoc.

A number of livestock sales were on, including Tintinara-Coonalpyn, Lucindale and Kingston SE offshears sales, a Keith Shorthorn feature sale, Burra sheep market and Gepps Cross market.

In other news, abattoirs in Port Lincoln were set to close after operating at a "considerable" loss; KI farmers were preparing to fight state government native vegetation clearance regulations, while mainland graziers and beekeepers were fighting against the state-wide eradication of Salvation Jane.

AWB were refuting "unsubstantiated rumours" that Australian wheat was being sold on the world market on subsidised terms, while pig producers were contemplating setting up an industry corporation.

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Flashback Friday - December 1983 | ...

This week's Flashback Friday looks back to the Stock Journal editions of December 1983.

Flashback Friday - December 1983 | PHOTOS

Alisha Fogden

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