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FArM gAtE NEWS the Farmer’s Newsletter Phone 1800 088 528 email info@grantsheds.com.au

Grant ShedS PO Box 29, Monash, Sa 5342 fax 08 8583 5402 web www.grantsheds.com.au

A BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO INFORM AND ENTERTAIN YOU

MAY - JUNE 2013

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Family CelebrationsThe weekend before Easter we had a family lunch to celebrate Ali’s 50th birthday. We held our annual Easter egg hunt on the same day, since family members were going in different directions for Easter this year.

The kids made up an Easter Bunny ‘nest’ before lunch - a bunch of leaves and flowers to cover the bottom of a laundry basket. Then they drew chalk directions to the basket on the verandah concrete, for Easter bunny to follow.

After lunch they headed out for a walk in the mallee bush around our house, looking for signs that Easter bunny was nearby. And by the time they came home ... guess what? Easter Bunny had been, dropping his eggs through the garden as he went.

Delightful squeals followed as the kids raced ahead of each other to collect as many eggs as possible in their little Easter baskets, and later pooled to make sure they each got an equal quantity.

Easter Houseboat On The MurrayInterstate friends joined us for an absolutely beautiful 5 days on the River Murray on board a lovely houseboat from ‘Above Renmark Houseboats’.

If you’ve never done this yourself before, we highly recommend that you put it on your holiday list.

The river is just so beautiful and so serene. It is unbelievably relaxing. A great way to wind down.

We had 3 of our friends children with us who were aged around 10-14. They delighted in the chance to try water skiing and ‘tubing’, but it was knee boarding that won them all, mainly because each of them mastered it. So Danny and their parents were in our ski boat for hours, entertaining them. And such things are so easy to do when you can see the immense joy in the kids.

Here’s the houseboat company we used. We’re happy to give them a ‘plug’ because they made our Easter houseboat weekend fabulous!

Wilkadene Above Renmark Experienceswww.AboveRenmark.com.au

And by the way, they also run the “Wilkadene Woolshed Brewery” on their property. This is a micro-brewery operated in a 100 year old refurbished shearing shed ... Another great reason to visit them.

Brenton’s 30th BirthdayIf you’ve phoned Grant Sheds in the past 10 years, it’s likely that you may have spoken with Brenton Halupka from time to time.

He may have helped you work to out the best shed size and layout for your specific needs.

Brenton is also our son and turned 30 on Anzac Day. Happy Birthday Brenton.

We hope you enjoy another edition of our FARM GATE NEWS. And remember, we love hearing from you with suggestions for stories that you think would be of interest to other farmers.

Cheerio

Alison & Danny & Our Grant Sheds Team

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We are always amazed by the beauty of the River Murray. If you’ve never visited our region, we highly recommend that you make it a holiday priority. Whether by hiring a houseboat, staying at one of the many lovely caravan parks, hotels, motels, B&B’s or just camping by the river, you’ll be blown away by the scenes and the serenity. If you want some suggestions on where to stay or what to do, we are happy to do our bit for local tourism and give you some ideas ... Just call us.

Here we are on our Easter houseboat holiday near Renmark.

See You At The Field Days Mallee Machinery Field Days at Speed, Vic July 31-Aug 1 Wed-ThursRiverland Field Days at Barmera, SA 18-19th Sept Wed-ThursYorke Peninsula Field Days at Paskeville, SA 24-26th Sept Tues-ThursIf you’d like some help with your shed planning we are happy to assist. Or just call in for a chat. We’d love to see you.

Here’s Brenton with his family last xmas. Melinda, Riley, Brenton & Ayden.

Kallie, Riley & Ayden after the Easter egg hunt.

COMMUNITYWhat Makes Country Life So Good?

Grant’s Knee OperationAli’s dad, Grant Telfer, had a knee replacement operation in March.

For new people reading our magazine, Grant is Ali’s dad, and started Grant Sheds way back in 1952. He was also the maker of the famous old Monash Playground which many people around the state, and in fact around the whole country, still remember. It attracted around 300,000 annually to visit it.

At age 81, Grant is still a very fit bloke and rides his bush-bike from Monash to Barmera most days (before the op that is) to deliver the Grant Sheds outgoing mail. This is a round trip of about 16kms, and while he does now have a small power-assist motor on his bike, he only uses it as much as he needs to (eg. Up hills and in head winds).

But about 25 years ago, he was riding his bike in Perth when he was knocked off his bike by a hit-run driver. He woke up in hospital and had a smashed up knee that had to be screwed and plated back together.

So this poor knee has done him well and it’s probably surprising that it didn’t need replacing sooner.

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You Little RipperLOCAL AUSSIE LEGENDS

1952-2012

Grant Telfer in his typical white overalls, bare feet and with one of his bikes, out side

the old Monash Playground that he built between the 1970’s-1990 ... But closed in early 1992 because insurance companies

would no longer insure it.

Here’s The Answer To Why Danny Looks So Pleased With Himself! Why wouldn’t he ... hey?Proof that one year Danny got a pit girl on the back. This was in 2010. He says she was very articulate in her talking with him!! Oh yeah? Would he have even noticed??

Kingsley Scholz, the ‘Barefoot Farmer’ called in to our Monash factory this month to collect his new 12m x 30m x 5.1m Grant Sheds “Aussie Tough” Machinery Shed.

Kingsley is from Wudinna on he Eyre Peninsula. He’ll be building it himself and will find it pretty easy. Grant Sheds are designed to be easy to build.

He’ll be back after seeding to collect 3 more sheds for his brother Stuart.

Some Men Don’t Know How Lucky They Are ...We visited Gordon Todd at Tintinara in April. He was keen to extend the Grant Sheds Machinery Shed that he’d bought back in 2002.

Gordon enjoys reading our FARM GATE NEWS magazine and wanted to know how Danny had scored a ride on his Harley motorbike in the Driver’s Parade at the Clipsal V8 Supercars race each March.

The answer is that it’s by invitation only. A friend of Danny has been doing it for years and he scored a ride for Danny, who has now done it for 4 years.

Gordon then explained that he owned a Harley motorbike and laughed when he said that he keeps it INSIDE THE HOUSE!

Boy, we need to sell this bloke a special garage for it, hey? And ‘No’ he’s not a single bloke ... He has a wife he should treasure!

To give him credit though, I don’t think it’s their main lounge, it has a tiled floor and of course ... Harley’s don’t leak oil, do they?

Danny is going to see if he can score a place in next year’s Drivers Parade for Gordon. And yes, he has ordered his shed extension ... does that add pressure to Danny to get the ride for him?

Barefoot Farmer From Wudinna

Gordon Todd of Tintinara with his Harley motorcycle that he keeps in his lounge!

FARMING WIVES

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Tim and Dearne Prior run their 1200 acre farm at Hamilton, SA, which is between Marrabel and Kapunda, in the mid North of South Australia. On the farm they grow wheat, averaging about 800 tonnes, and around 300 tonnes of canola each year plus they run sheep.

Grain FarmingTim takes all his grain straight into the Viterra grain handling system, where it is usually warehoused and he then sells it after harvest. “I wait until we’ve finished each variety and see how much we’ve got for sale, and then see how the prices are going, and decide whether to sell it then or hang onto it,” Tim says. “It depends a bit on our cash flow and whether we need the money.”

One of the Prior’s harvest difficulties is delivering to the silos. “It’s a bit awkward,” Tim comments. “We have to go around to different silos these days to deliver our grain. Once upon a time you could just go to the Kapunda silo and deliver everything ... but those days have changed with all the different segregations these days; there’s so many.”

“Also, being a late harvest district, the local silos

are often filled up with grain delivered from

farmers outside our district, before we start,” he laments.

Tim says that he harvests on his own. His header holds about 5-6 tonnes of grain and when that’s full he drives over to field bins and dumps the grain in those.

“I don’t actually use a chaser bin myself, because then you need someone sitting in a tractor waiting to come and unload the header. With me not being a real big farmer, I don’t think it warrants me doing that.”

Once the field bins are filled, Tim uses contract carriers to come in and he unloads the grain from the field bins into the contractor’s semis. Tim says, “The main difference with having a chaser bin is that you can still keep harvesting while you’re unloading into those chaser bins.”

Tim commented that massive productivity gains have been made in cropping methods due to the amazing engineering these days. “You can go back 40 years and you were probably getting $180 a tonne for wheat and at the start of 2012 we were still looking at $200 a tonne for it. But we’ve survived because of the productivity. One person can do so much more now.”

The Killer That Holds The Wool Industry Back“The productivity gains in wool have been so much less because they haven’t been able to master shearing mechanically,” continues Tim. “That’s been the killer that has held the wool industry back.”

The Prior’s have about 50:50 Merinos and first-cross lambs. They mate about 700 ewes. Tim does his own crutching but gets shearers in to do his shearing.

TAFE runs learner and improver shearing schools all around the state to try and bring kids into the industry and teach them the right shearing techniques right from the start. This means they can shear better and quicker.

Tim shears his sheep in February and when he moved to this time (from the traditional August-September), not too many others were doing February shearing. Now almost everyone is shearing in February.

Why the change? Tim says, “I changed my time of lambing and that’s why I changed my time of shearing.”

“I now have lambs on the ground in August-September when we’ve got the best pasturefeed and they can grow well, where as before, we were lambing in April with less feed about and then we were feeding them supplementary hay and oats but it wasn’t enough energy for the ewes to produce milk as well.”

Dramatic Increase In Lambing PercentageTim explains that while they do get some losses from the cold when lambing in August-September, their lambing percentage has actually increased dramatically, from 80% to 105%. This is because they have healthy ewes with enough nutrition from undisturbed paddock grazing.

When they were lambing in April, there was often a lack of feed in the paddocks and the mother couldn’t always feed her lambs. Therefore supplementary feeding was needed and the ewes just bolt for the feed being distributed by the farmer. This means lambs often got left behind or lost from their mothers. When the ewe finishes feeding, she is content if she has one lamb by her side, but if the twin or triplet got lost, she wouldn’t even notice that.

Fly management is also easier now. In the past it was always an issue to get the sheep shorn just before September-October when the flies arrive. These days you can put preventative treatment on them to protect them from fly-strike.

“February is just a good month for shearing, where we aren’t doing much else and you don’t have to worry about wet sheep. In August there was always a big issue to keep the sheep dry until the shearers came,” Tim says.

Tim uses dogs to help with rounding up sheep. He says, “Sheep react differently if you’ve got a dog or not. Even if you’ve got a useless dog,” he laughs, “ If it’s with you the sheep know it and they tend to mob up naturally, where as if you’re by yourself, they tend to ignore you and just fan out.”

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Mid North Farmer Changing ToIMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY

Tim Prior of Hamilton, SA tells his farm story about his cropping and sheep enterprise. He explains how he has changed his farming practices for greater efficiency and productivity.

Danny Halupka, Grant Sheds owner, in Tim Prior’s canola crop ... And ‘No ‘ ... He’s not kneeling down. The canola crop really is this tall.

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Mid North Farmer Changing ToIMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY

Life in a small country townThe Prior family plays tennis in summer and footy in winter which is common in many grain and sheep farming communities. Tim & Dearne have 3 boys, aged 14, 12 and 9. Tim and Dianne play tennis for Hamilton while the boys play tennis for Marrabel. This is only because they don’t have enough juniors at Hamilton to field any junior teams.

Tim agrees that it’s getting harder for small communities to maintain their facilities. “We’re struggling with our tennis courts but we don’t have the money to fix them up,” he says. “Back in the early 80’s we had 3 senior teams and a junior team and had 4 courts. We did a lot of hay carting and stuff that neighbours did to fundraise. That’s how we did it back then. But now we’re down to four families and it’s just hard to raise enough money to keep it all going.”

Tim’s 2 New Grant ShedsTim purchased two new sheds from Grant Sheds in 2012.

12m x 27m x 5.1m MACHINERY SHED With 3 x 9m wide-beam openings

Tim says he decided it was time to get a decent farm shed for himself. Lack of space in his old, cluttered sheds was his main motivator, along with the desire to be able to store his own-use hay undercover.

He said he’d been keen to buy a Grant brand shed because he’d only ever heard good things about them. He knew they are a good, strong shed from a company that’s been around for decades and he says he believes the overall value is great compared with what others offer.

7.5m x 7.2m x 2.7m GARAGE

Tim says he thought it was a good time to also buy a garage to be built closer to their home to cover their family car and the farm ute. Truth be told, perhaps he thought he was more likely to get permission from Dearne for the big shed, if he also got a shed to protect her car... What do you think?

“I decided to buy a Grant Shed because,

although it probably wasn’t the cheapest,

I was confident it would be better quality.”

“I found, while working with Grant Sheds,

there was a huge amount of communication

coming through. I always knew what

was going on and everything was always

followed up. All the way through, your

correspondence, with your newsletters and

all sorts of things, was very good. It let me

know where you were at.”

“And the erectors were very good. They

conducted themselves very well. I thought

they did a great job.”

“I would certainly recommend Grant Sheds

if you want a good quality shed ... for sure.”

Tim Prior, Hamilton SA

BETTER VALUE

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12m x 27m x 5.1m MACHINERY SHEDOpen 1 side, with 3 x 9m wide open bays. Normally $30,129 For June Only $25,997 inc GST

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Tim’s Machinery Shed is one of our most popular farm shed sizes. And this month (June) you can invest in your own at this super-special price...But you’ll have to hurry!

SAVE $4,132

The wide bay openings make it easy for you to park your wide machinery quickly and easily ... without hassle. Get away from the clutter and lack of space in your old sheds. ORDER RIGHT NOW If you don’t want to miss out.

There are only 3 available and I’m sure they’ll be snapped up quickly. Here’s how to get started...

Fill out the FAST ACTION ORDER FORM included with this edition of FARM GATE NEWS, or Phone Brenton on FREECALL 1800 088 528Delivery & Building are available, but not included. *Conditions Apply

Good Quality Machinery Sheds For

MORE BOTTOM- LINE PROFIT

The Homestead GarageBuilt close to the house for convenience, and to be used to protect the family car and ute.

Reduced Repair Costs and Higher Re-sale Prices on your Farm Machinery are good reasons to invest in a good quality Machinery Shed. With your farm machinery now worth up to millions of dollars, you can’t afford to leave it out in the open.

Better ValueSolid X-Bracing much greater rigidity and overall strength. It’s also much easier to build because the structure is solid and stable from the start rather than relying on the installation of the cladding to stiffen it up like many others do.

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How To Overcome Some of YourFRUSTRATIONS

And Avoid Others

How often do you experience not just poor service but abominable service when you try to deal with businesses in your local area or beyond?

I’d say that poor service is now more common than good service. And great service is practically unheard of.

Have we all become so powerless to be appreciated as a paying client?

Just yesterday I phoned a person we’d been doing regular business with for the past 15 years and politely explained that they hadn’t provided our regular fortnightly service for over a month, yet we’d still been paying for it. I copped a mouth full of abuse for my trouble. Unbelievable!

Another example...We’ve been trying to source some new products and we’ve contacted relevant businesses by phone, email and face to face meetings, but practically none of them have

Where Has Good Service Gone? bothered to get back to us with information

or pricing.

Most businesses are complaining about the Global Financial Crisis affecting their busi-nesses, yet when opportunity smacks them in the face, they aren’t even responding.

OK, maybe I’m getting a little bit hot under the collar here, but tell me, are you getting frustrated by the lack of reasonable service?

What I want you to understand is that we are consumers too, and I can tell you that we are sick and tired of the complete lack of care or concern we receive almost every time we purchase a product or service. And we are determined to make a change to that...starting with us!

Grant Sheds is a Delightfully Different Shed Business

You’ll be pleasantly surprised by the genuine care and concern you receive when you contact and work with Grant Sheds.

We communicate clearly and often with you; help you with shed building advice; keep you informed of progress when you order your new shed; supply an “Aussie Tough” shed you’ll be delighted with and provide ‘Master Quality’, accredited, Grant Sheds shed builders who are willing to travel to country areas...and are great blokes to boot! (No - I don’t mean you can kick them!!)

But you don’t have to just take my word for it. Here are some comments from current happy customers. Because it’s Brenton’s 30th birthday, I’ve included some who specifically acknowledge the help he’s given them.

Brenton is very knowledgeable about sheds,

Do you experience overwhelm, frustration and despair whenever you have to do your paperwork or whenever you go into your office?

Are you in a constant state of anxiety because you can’t find anything in your messy office?

Well... Understand it’s not your fault and you are not alone. From my experience with farmers over about 33 years, most farmers are a mess when it comes to their paperwork.

There is mail to open, wages to pay, bills to sort out, bank statements and credit cards to organise, BAS statements to complete, invoices to file, spray diaries to complete...the list just goes on and on...

Where are you supposed to find the time to sort it all out when you haven’t even got time to get through all your farming work and family commitments?

It’s exhausting and you’ve learnt to HATE PAPERWORK! Am I right?

Watch this space in the next FARM GATE NEWS for a solution to this age-old problem.

“Where’s That Bloody Invoice...?!”

Alison Halupka, co-owner of Grant Sheds has her say on the sad state of service

these days and how Grant Sheds is determined to be different!

IT’S THE SMALL THINGS THAT SHOW A BUSINESS IS INTERESTED“Recently we started the process of purchasing a Grant Shed and dealing with Brenton.

We’d like to thank all those we’ve had dealings with in this process. The parcel of treats and hat that we received once we decided to order a shed and all the quirky little things along the way (the teabags and minties etc). A lot of the time it’s the small things that are the things that show a business is interested in what they do and their customers.Thanks so much again and please pass this on to Brenton also.

Jill & murray Dunn, Finniss, SA

and his natural manner is to be a helpful person. So I know that if you are dealing with him, he’ll be doing everything possible to make sure you get just what you need...Even if to start with you feel like you’re not quite sure what you want yourself?

Now, if I’ve got my head in the clouds, (or stuck up my bum), if you’ve received poor service from us and I just don’t know about it, please give me a call. I’ll take your call personally and hear your concerns.

Here’s my phone number: 08 8583 5262 Just ask for Alison.

We receive a lot of comments from our customers about the help Brenton (& others on our team) gives them. Here are just a few.

Chris’s shed was built at Loveday, while he was working at Yalata in the state’s far west.

IMPRESSED WITH EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE“I was extremely impressed with Brenton

Halupka and his extensive knowledge.

I had some ideas of what I wanted, but

Brenton was able to help me bring it all

together.Nothing was too difficult for him and I was

very impressed when he came up with

suggestions that I hadn’t even thought

about.I was very happy with the total cost and

am looking forward to the completed construction. I have been very impressed

all the way along.”

Chris Boyce, Loveday SA

New legislation has increased A. The small business instant asset write-off threshold,

B. Combined the small business general and long-life pools, and

C. Created a new deduction on the purchase of motor vehicles.

Instant Asset Write-Off Threshold IncreasedPreviously assets costing $1,000 or less (excluding GST) could be claimed in full the year they were purchased. Assets costing more than $1,000 were required to be depreciated over the estimated life of the asset.

From 1 July 2012 assets that cost $6,500 or less (excluding GST) can be claimed in full in the year of purchase.

For example if your small business entity purchased a sheep feeder for $3,000 excluding GST on 5th September 2012 your tax deduction will be $3,000 in the 2012/13 year.

Assets that cost more than $6,500 (GST exclusive), for example a tractor, will be added to a general asset pool for tax purposes.

In the year the asset is purchased the depreciation claim will be 15% regardless of the date of purchase. For subsequent years the claim for depreciation will be 30% on the opening balance of the pool.

FARM SHEDS MAY HAVE INCREASED

DEPRECIATION CLAIMS

Small business general & long-life pools combinedPreviously assets that were expected to be held long term were separated into a long-life small business pool with a much lower depreciation rate of 2.5% in the first year and 5% for subsequent years. From 1 July 2012 the general and long-life pools will be combined into one general pool. Therefore all assets that cost more than $6,500 (excluding GST) will be in the same pool.

This will effectively increase the depreciation claim on assets that have a long effective life (for example Machinery sheds, Grain Sheds, Hay sheds and Fertiliser Sheds) to 15% in the first year and 30% from the second year of ownership onwards.

New deduction for SBEs purchasing motor vehicles If a small business entity purchases a motor vehicle for business use on or after 1 July 2012 the first $5,000 will be deductible in full and the balance will be added to the small business asset pool and depreciated at 15% for the first year and 30% for the following and future years. The amount of the deduction will be reduced where the vehicle is not used 100% for business use.

Motor vehicles that qualify for this new deduction include new and second hand cars, trucks, vans, utilities and motorbikes. However,

tractors, combine harvesters, spray units and trailers will not qualify for the $5,000 deduction so the full cost (if more than $6,500) of these assets will be added to the small business general pool.

Small Business Entity (SBE)A business entity is the entity you are operating your business through which may be an individual, partnership, company or trust.

A small business entity is an entity that is carrying on a business activity with an annual aggregated turnover of less than $2 million.

Turnover includes your livestock sales, wheat and barley and other grain sales and other income earned by the business before any expenses. Where your turnover is less than $2 million you should be able to use the concessions that are available for small business entities.

You may also need to include the turnover of any other businesses that you may be connected to or affiliated with.

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Big Depreciation Deductions Make Now AGREAT TIME TO INVEST

In A New Farm Shed*

NEW FARM SHED DEPRECIATION EXAMPLE

A Farm Shed , if bought now, could now reap

much greater depreciation amounts than in

the past.

EXAMPLE: A farm shed costing $30,000 excl GST

In the past: You could only claim

1st year: 2.5% or $750

Year 2: 5% or $1462.50

Now: You may be able to claim a whopping...

1st year: 15% or $4500

Year 2: 30% or $7650 !

Depreciation continues on at 30% of the

remaining balance each year. Read the article

above to find out more.

*Check your own specific circumstances with

your accountant or the William Buck tax team.

Grant Sheds Machinery shed owned by Giles

Oster of Pinnaroo.

Chris Gebhardt is a Director at William Buck and can be contacted on 08 8409 4333 or chris.gebhardt@williambucksa.com.au

Huge Increases In Depreciation Deductions For Small Business Entities Mean The Government Could Be Helping You Pay For Your New Shed!

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MONTHLY HUMOUR THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Never hold your farts in.

They travel up your spine, into your

brain, and that is where shitty ideas

come from!!!!

You’ve called the self-help line.

• If you have multiple personalities please press buttons 1, 2 or 3

• If you are paranoid, don’t worry, we are keeping an eye on you.

• If you think no-one ever listens to you, please hang up now.

We are so delighted with the sense of country community that has been achieved with our newsletter that we want to continue sharing it with as many hard-working farmers as possible.

So we’d love for you to share the fun with us. And yes, we’re even giving you a grand reward for doing so.

For every two farming friends you refer to us, we’ll give you a carton of beer!

Yes, that’s right ... Your choice of beer (within reason) for every two farming people whose names you send us.

Now, I assure you, we won’t be putting any high-pressure shed sales tactics on them ... That’s not our style!

But they will receive a FREE subscription to our FARM GATE NEWS mini magazine –just like you. - and they will get occasional Special Offers and useful information - just like you!

So just give us their names & contact details

...And of course, make sure you give us your name so we can send you your FREE BEER!

We already have your postal address ... That’s how you’re getting this publication yourself ... But please add your best phone number so we can contact you if needed., and the type of beer you prefer.

And if you don’t drink BEER?

Tell us what you do like ... Wine, Soft Drink, Champagne ... And we’ll send you a roughly equivalent value of that.

Or, take the beer anyway and share it with friends, family or your local sporting or social club.

But please, farming people only, as this magazine really is focussed on those. The farming can be any sort - grain, sheep, cattle, horticulture, viticulture, vegetables, oysters .... Anything considered even faintly ‘farming’ ~ OK, perhaps not marijuana!!

Share the fun of receiving these FARM GATE NEWS mini magazines and your farming friends, family and neighbours will love you for it.

And don’t just think of people in your own district. You may know people in other farming districts and in farming operations quite different from yours. They are all welcome!

Here’s the contact info we need for the people you refer so we can post them future copies of FARM GATE NEWS.

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Then send us your referred friends names By Phone: Freecall 1800 088 528 By Fax: 08 8583 5402 By Email: admin@grantsheds.com.au By Post: PO Box 29, Monash SA 5342

We hope to be sending you

Cheerio

Alison & Danny Halupka Owners - Grant Sheds

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