This Friday Stock Journal is flashing back exactly 23 years ago to the first week of April in 2001.
Headlining the week's paper was the announcement Australian wheat would continue to be exported under a regulated system with a single desk marketing model remaining the government's preferred option.
Meanwhile, the SA Merino Field Days was recapped, with stud principal's across the state converging on Burra for the annual event.
At the state's Golden Gavel competition in Adelaide, Mount Gambier stock agent Dale Keatley, Keatley Livestock, was awarded the Livestock Golden Gavel, while Glen Hamlyn, Pinkerton Palm Hamlyn and Steen, Naracoorte, finished runner-up.
In this edition, the Royal Adelaide Show announced there would be a led goat whether competition at the annual September event, which would be the first of its kind in the country and in dairy, the Mount Pleasant Holstein Feature Show was held.
More than 2000 revelers flocked to Mount Burr in the South East to attend the inaugural Mount Burr Bullride and the South East Field Days at Lucindale was hailed a success.
