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FARM GATE NEWS Written & Published By Simple Ways to Get BIG Compliments P6 FARMERS SECRETS To Bigger Farm Incomes P4-5 Little Known Shed Design SECRETS P7 Unique WINE DISPLAY P7 FARM GATE NEWS The Farmer’s Newsletter PHONE 1800 088 528 EMAIL [email protected] 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 NOV-DEC 2013 Paddock Bikie EXPOSED P2 IT’S BACK!! P3 Win $50,000! YOUR CHANCE TO SEE PAGE 3 ORDER NOW Our Builders schedules are filling fast For every month you wait, the time for building may increase by 3 months. This has happened to others.
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Page 1: Farm Gate News December 2013

FARMGATENEWS

Written & Published By

Simple Ways to Get

BIG Compliments P6

FARMERS SECRETS To Bigger Farm Incomes P4-5

Little Known Shed Design SECRETS P7

Unique WINE DISPLAY P7

FARM GATE NEWS The Farmer’s Newsletter PHONE 1800 088 528 EMAIL [email protected]

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

NOV-DEC 2013

Paddock Bikie EXPOSED P2

IT’S BACK!!

P3

Win $50,000!YOUR CHANCE TO

SEE PAGE 3

ORDER NOWOur Builders schedules are filling fast For every month you wait, the time for building may increase by 3 months. This has happened to others.

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Outstanding Pub at Melrose, SA While in the upper north of SA, we had lunch at the Melrose North Star Hotel. Wow ... what a wonderfully interesting interior it has. We highly recommend you visit it. Their meals and their staff were also outstanding.

Annual Monash Shindig We’ve written before about our annual Monash Shindig, held every October, in our local Monash Memorial Hall. Ali and Danny are highly involved in organising this outstanding community event.

This year’s event raised between $7000-$8000 much of which will be donated to the new chemotherapy unit at the Riverland General Hospital.

P2 FARM GATE NEWS: The Farmer’s Newsletter

What Makes Country Life So Good?

COMMUNITY

Danny at the bar. Note the timber bar front and bar top, tree trunks in the doorway beyond Danny, stone wall on left of that doorway and rendered wall to right of that doorway. The ceiling in the bar area is timber battens and, beyond the doorway, the ceiling is wool bale bags. The longer you stay and look ... the more you see!

Ali with our daughter Melanie and granddaughter Kallie.

Local ‘mama’ Cathy Beech won the best-dressed competition.

Danny in his ‘Blues Brothers’ outfit. Love that moustache!

Brenton Harrington of Berri & Bob Braunack of Monash

Recent Farm Visits Over the past few weeks we have enjoyed a

number of farm visits around SA, Vic and NSW.

We really enjoy meeting up with people in our country areas. Everyone is so friendly and

hospitable and we learn so much about so many different farming operations.

We visited the following people recently:

• Phil Arbon at Balaklava

• Neil, Emily & Malcolm Byerlee at Carrieton

• Jack Hoare at Carrieton (sorry Jack, we didn’t get your photo)

• Grant McCallum & Linda Chapman at Willowie via Orroroo

• Elsie, John & Peter Pocklington at Bunnaloo, NSW

• Andrew & Annette Cass of Loxton

We’ll include stories about the Byerlee’s (who

have 13 Grant Sheds!) and the Pocklington’s,

who have 5 Grant Sheds, in future editions.

Their stories are very fascinating.

Danny with Kurt Walter (Walco Seed Cleaning) & Phil Arbon of Balaklava.

Andrew & Annette Cass of Loxton in their 4000tonne Grain Shed

Neil, Malcolm & Emily Byerlee of Carrieton, SA

Grant McCallum & Linda Chapman of Willowie via

Orroroo

Peter & John Pocklington, Bunnaloo, NSW.

BUSTED!! Our paddock bikie. He wasn’t that tough in his hi-viz shirt, was he?

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FARM GATE NEWS: The Farmer’s Newsletter P3

Reward Yourself This Summer with a nice … Frosty Cold … BEER.We all know the farming game can be a hard slog … Backbreaking work, especially during those long hot summer days. And there’s nothing better than finishing off a steamy, energy sapping day than by knocking back an icy cold “life-saving” beer!

So we’re having a Sizzling Summer Celebration!

Here’s an unbelievable offer that you won’t see very often!You’re going to think we’ve gone crazy when you read a bit further, but that’s alright.We subscribe to the theory “to make a difference, you’ve got to be different!” I believe you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better shed than a Grant shed and I want to give you a chance to find out for yourself.I’m either confident or crazy!What I truly believe is, we make the best “Aussie Tough” farm sheds around. Here’s your chance to find out.

SO HERES THE DEAL! With every FARM SHED* purchased during this summer, we’ll give you FREE BEER, of your choice, for an entire year! Your choice of a range of beer brands on our list, including Carlton Draft, Hahn Super Dry, Coopers Pale Ale, Corona, West End Draught and Crown Lager. This means we will give you 2 cartons of beer every month for an entire year!That’s 24 cartons over 12 months!And what if you’re not a beer drinker? Let us know and we’ll see what alternative drinks we can arrange, cos we don’t want you to miss out!

Why are we doing this?Because it’s going to be a long, hot summer and we want YOU to celebrate your new GRANT SHEDS farm shed with us. We know that we are very different from our

competitors and we want you to experience our total “Aussie Tough” Grant Sheds care and share package!

5 FREE GIFTS FOR YOU!Here are ALL the GIFTS you can take home if you order your new farm shed this summer!

1. FREE BEER FOR A YEAR Just order your new farm shed soon* so you can enjoy your FREE BEER over summer and beyond!Just get your new shed quoted now and we’ll include your FREE BEER voucher when we send you your shed proposal. Then, when you order your “Aussie Tough” GRANT shed and send back that Beer Voucher and your deposit, your beer supply will start coming in the following month.So the sooner you make that decision to invest in your new shed, the sooner your beer will start arriving.

1 Ticket For Every $1000 Spent

For every $1000 you spend with Grant Sheds, you will receive one entry in our Chance To Win $50,000 Sweepstakes.This is just another way of us saying “Thank You” for dealing with us, and it’s a bit of fun.So not only do you end up with a Best Quality Farm Shed and Great Value, but you also get multiple entries and more chances to win, in the Draw for the Chance to Win $50,000!For Example:Farm Shed Value: $10,000 = 10 entriesFarm Shed Value: $20,000 = 20 entriesFarm Shed Value: $30,000 = 30 entriesAlready we’ve had people getting up to 100 or more entries.

3. FREE IRON UPGRADE Roofing grade iron on your walls (Valued from $350 to $3,700, dependant upon which shed you choose!) Again, just return the Discount Voucher by the expiry date on it.

4. 50 YEAR STRUCTURAL GUARANTEE! Order at any time and you’ll always be fully covered by our iron-clad unique, rock-solid 50 year structural guarantee.In the unlikely event that something needs to be fixed with your shed, we promise under our Guarantee* that we’ll FIX IT for FREE or we’ll REPLACE IF FOR FREE if it can’t be fixed!Nobody else offers that!

$500 ON-TIME DELIVERY PROMISE We guarantee your new shed will be deliv-ered on time or we will deduct $500 from the agreed cost of your shed.WOW … That’s an amazing amount of added value and the sooner you order your new farm shed the more Sizzling Summer Bonuses you will get.

SO WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO THINK ABOUT? If you’ve been thinking you might need a new farm shed in 2014, don’t wait.This Sizzling Summer Celebration offer is available only during this summer, so contact us today to get the ball rolling!You’ll soon be able to “crack open a coldie” to celebrate YOUR NEW SHED! We can assure you that you will not find anything like this from any other shed supplier in Australia.Yes, we’re a little crazy maybe, but hey, the Sizzling Summer Heat can do that to you!So, let’s re-cap the 5 BONUS ITEMS you can get in this “FREE BEER” offer…

Get Your NEW SHED and FREE BEER Now! FREECALL: 1800 088 528

Get a farm shed and enjoy FOR A WHOLE YEAR!GET THAT SHED YOU KNOW YOU NEED AND GET A YEARS WORTH OF FREE BEER!

Bonus #1 Free Beer For A Year

Bonus #2 Your Chance To WIN $50,000

Bonus #3 Free Iron Upgrade

Bonus #4 50 Year Structural Guarantee

Bonus #5 $500 On-Time Delivery Promise

*conditions apply

Win $50,000!YOUR CHANCE TO2.

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Ron & Meg Hards are from Oakridge, at Yarrara (100km west of Mildura), in the Millewa region of Victoria. Ron has been farming the Mallee for 45 years and has over 6000 acres and leases another farm. His son Nick has progressed through apprenticeships and training and has been with his parents, farming for 15 years, which has given Ron the incentive to keep farming. Something else that keeps him going is a key innovation in farming - the transformation from full cultivation and many thousands of hours on tractors to no till, less labour intensive farming.

Ron and Nick started the no tilling process in 2002 when they were tired of losing top soil through erosion. No till had been developed for a lot of other areas that have more assured 14”-16” rainfall, and while no till was working

perfectly in those areas, he always had reservations about how it would work in his 10” rainfall area.

“You can’t expect to no-till a crop straight out of conventional farming and expect it to work properly. There’s a lead time of about 5-6 years until the soil seems to develop characteristics to be able to cope with the crop every year.”

When they started no-till cropping they changed their machinery. As Ron explains it, “There’s no good being half-pregnant. We couldn’t half do it. You need to commit to it.”

Ron’s seeding machinery uses one pass knife points. The points are only half an inch wide and really only cut the soil rather than tilling it. Fertiliser is placed deep down in the soil, deeper than the seed, and the seed can be accurately placed at any depth you choose (eg. 4mm – 25mm). This is important for different crops, different germinations and different soil moisture levels.

The guidance systems used, allows farmers to place the crop rows with up to 2cm accuracy. They can place the crop rows with 12” spacings and next year’s crop can be planted half way between those – or wherever you like within that 12” original row spacing.

They’ve also got variable rate seeding and fertilising where they map their paddocks and apply fertiliser at different rates across the paddock. They may be sowing 40kg of fertiliser on a rise on a good sandy loam and can go back to zero or very little fertilizer on a very fertile, flat area in the paddock. They can vary the seeding rate as well – heavier on the hills and lighter on the flats.

No till allows cropping of most paddocks every year meaning that a greater area of the farm is cropped each year, and as Ron explains, “It doesn’t have to be the best crop in the district – the fact that you’re getting a crop every year and conventional farmers get one crop every 2-3 years is enough for me to think it’s highly satisfactory.”

The Hard’s have a policy of not cropping the same paddock with the same grains each

year. It’s always a different grain or a different variety. They’ve grown some vetch and now grows oaten hay as part of the process to get that rotation and that break crop. They say they are also about to start planting peas, vetch and possibly some lupins.

This will give a further break, gain extra weed control and also get the nitrogen input of the legumes.

No till offers plenty of benefits, such as

• Less erosion, • Less tractor hours (Ron’s current tractor is 11 years old and has 3500 hours on the clock which would be only a couple of years of tractor work with conventional farming), • Less wear and tear on the machinery, • Less fertiliser costs • More crop each year

But there are still pitfalls to the process as well. Ron feels the biggest downside of using no till is that rotation is the hardest thing to develop. However, it is progressing, with new varieties of all crops helping to develop rotations.

“We never thought we could grow lupins and peas and legume crops in the Mallee in a 10” rainfall, but it’s obvious now that we can,” Ron explains.

P4 FARM GATE NEWS: The Farmer’s Newsletter

1952-2012

Successful NO TILL FARMING In 10” Mallee Rainfall

Deep rooted canola opens up the soil allowing

deeper root penetration of future crops.

Last year’s stubble still visible between this year’s crop rows

“No till is simple when you understand it and how it develops,” says Ron.

“And the wheat crops that follow 1 or 2 years of legumes are just so far in front of the normal rotations it’s not funny.”

The Hards Family are passionate converts to No Till Farming

Methods

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Mallee Sustainable Farming trials are giving farmers a lot of information on this issue.

Given the fact that they are going over the same tracks each year, some people have a lot of concern about compaction, but Ron says it’s not the actual tractor that creates a lot of the compaction but the seasonal things and how soil will compact without any traverse over it at all. Ron believes that the cropping rotation alleviates that to a great degree. For example, they are growing canola in their rotation now and the deep rooted canola opens up the soil quite dramatically and allows deeper penetration of roots of the following plants. In this way rotation has taken care of much of the compaction in his Mallee soil.

Another concern is the chemicals that are used. Ron says, “It’s important that we don’t follow up some chemicals we use with one that may damage the next crop in the rotation with carry-over. For example, any carry-over of a group B herbicide like Trisulphuron will adversely affect a pea or lupin crop the following year.”

The no till method seems to be spreading as more people are getting on board. In the Mallee areas around Ouyen-Birchip in Victoria in particular, it’s believed that there is a 95% no till practice, while it’s only at 50-60% in the Millewa from Mildura to Renmark.

When it comes to fertilising crops, Ron says that when they were farming conventionally, 60- 80 kg per hectare was the normal fertiliser rate. With no till, they are looking mainly at replacing what they’re taking out. In other words, if crops are taking out 3-4 kilograms of phosphorus per hectare, 3-4 kg of phosphorus is put back.

Ron and Nick also run stock on the farm with what Ron calls their ‘opportunistic feed lot.’ They buy in lambs, locally or through the Yelta sale yards, toward the end of the cropping season and then feed them on their feed lot. They are able to keep their own grain and hay to feed them with, and take them through from skinny little merino wethers to nice big export lambs – which is where the real profit is.

Running stock seems to be a good adjunct to the no till cropping. The sheep pick up all of the heads of anything that is left on the stalks and any grain that falls on the ground. This gives them free feed for the 6-8 weeks it takes to run them through the paddocks.

While oaten hay is not a traditional crop for their

area, the Hard’s do have it and securing transport at a reasonable rate is imperative to make it attractive.

Ron says they have done well with their hay for the last 3-4 years, with export quality hay that is usually 3-4 weeks earlier than the traditional hay growing areas down south. The processors love to have that early hay to get into the market for their overseas clients in Korea and Japan. “We usually get the top grade or 2nd to top,” says Ron.

When Ron began farming some 45 years ago, he says it was “bloody hard work”. He recalls the days before four-wheel drive, front wheel drive and the 20 run combine which cut 12’ wide and a 10’-12’ harvester was the go. Where as now, a 50’ or 60’seeder is quite common as well as 40’ headers. The manpower to do the amount of acres has reduced dramatically.

The average size farm back then was 3,000 acres and sowing 100 acres in a day was considered a “hell of a big day.” Now, thanks to the advancement in equipment and technology and the fact that the work is not so physically labour intensive, sowing 300-400 acres per day is a breeze.

Ron & Meg are now looking more at slowing down and spending more time travelling, while Nick and his wife Jess, and their 4 children, take over more of the management in the next couple of years.

2 New Farm Sheds To • Increase Profits• Improve Efficiency and• Make Life EasierRon & Nick Hards have invested in two new Grant Sheds farm sheds in 2013.

The first was a new 9m x 12m x 4.8m Farm Workshop that they attached to an old pipe framed Grant Shed that had been built many years ago.

This enclosed workshop with it’s concrete floor and wide door openings will make their many workshop tasks, like machinery maintenance, much more enjoyable. To be able to get out of the weather on a windy, rainy or stinking hot day and still achieve some productive work will be a big benefit.

We’ve printed stories before about farmers

who’ve waited decades to build a new farm workshop and, when they’ve finally done it, say, “I should’ve done this years ago!”

Their 2nd Grant shed this year is a new Hay Shed that is 12m x 40.5m x 5.1m. It is built in 4.05m wide bays (between main frames) and has 5 x 8.1m beams across the front. This gives optimum storage space for large 8’x4’x4’ hay bales. Ron used a local builder to erect his two new sheds and mentioned that the builder had commented on the fact that ‘Grant’ sheds are much easier to build than other brands he’s built.

And he commented on the cost savings that are not immediately apparent at the time someone may be seeking quotes from a number of shed suppliers.

For example, this builder, erected a machinery shed of another brand and had to hire a crane for a whole day at a cost of $2000+ where as he only needed a crane for a couple of hours with these Grant sheds he built for Ron & Nick.

The X-bracing in Grant sheds also makes building the shed much easier and quicker as the x-bracing makes the framing very stable and very ‘square’ which makes sheeting the shed with iron much easier too.

And all the bolt holes are pre-punched in correct positions in a Grant shed. This means you don’t have to drill bolt holes and saves an immense amount of time and frustration.

It’s these little known design techniques that add even more value to your new ‘Grant’ shed.

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A decent Farm Workshop makes machinery maintenance much more enjoyable. Ron Hards standing in front of his new Grant Sheds workshop.

Ron & Nick Hards new Grant Sheds hay shed being erected. The builder has put large sections of roof

framing together on the ground and then craned it into position. The X-bracing Grant Sheds supplies

for the roof makes this an easy building option and saves a lot of crane-hours.

A Well Designed Farm Workshop Increases

Efficiency And Makes Life Easier

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P6P6 FARM GATE NEWS: The Farmer’s Newsletter

Fast, Simple & Tasty Recipes For

BIG ComplimentsAt Your Christmas Dinner

Danny’s sticky chicken recipeThis is a very quick and tasty recipe that our family LOVES. It’s a great choice for a large crowd at a party (obviously you’ll need to increase the recipe) or just your family for any meal of the week. Loved by kids & adults alike!

Serve with rice, fried rice, stir fry vegetables or salad. It goes with anything.

Prep Time: 10 min + 1-2 hrs to marinade Cooking Time: 30 min

Ingredients:

Y 8 Chicken drumsticksY 1/4 cup Soy sauceY 1/4 cup Hoisin SauceY 1/4 cup HoneyY 3 Garlic cloves, finely choppedY 1 tbsp fresh Ginger, peeled & finely choppedY 2 tsp sesame seeds, toasted (optional)

*Hint: Fresh garlic and ginger can be substituted with crushed versions from a jar (just check jar for amount to use as the jar versions are often stronger than fresh)

Method:

Mix soy sauce, hoisin sauce, honey, garlic and ginger in a large bowl. Add the drumsticks, turn over drumsticks to coat in the marinade.

Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, max 2 hrs.

Preheat oven to 180º C. Place drumsticks on a rack in a roasting dish. Cook for 30 mins, or until cooked, turning and basting the drumsticks with the marinade mixture, every 10 mins.

When ready, place on a serving dish and pour pan juices over. Sprinkle toasted sesame seeds over the top if you like them.

Watch them disappear!!

Eton MessA truly YUMMY and easy to make dessert that looks bright and delightful.

Serves 6 people Ingredients:

Y 500g Strawberries

Y 1 packet readymade Meringues

Y Additional 250g Strawberries

Y 2 teaspoons Caster Sugar

Y Squeeze of lemon juice

Y Either 300ml Cream (whipped), Ice cream, Yogurt OR Crème freche

Preparation:

Wash and hull the strawberries. You can add either a splash or Cointreau or Grand Marnier if you like. Set aside.

Break the meringues into bite size pieces.

Make the Coulis: Place the extra strawberries, sugar and lemon juice in a blender and puree until smooth.

Construction:

Start by spreading some of the broken meringues on a serving plate, Layer some strawberries on top Pour some coulis on next Then whichever ‘white stuff’ you choose, Repeat the layer effect,

And Remember ... it is meant to look messy.

Serving it on a plate like this makes it easy for guests to serve themselves a portion size they’d like, especially if you have other desserts on the table at Christmas.

Or you can make it more elegant by putting it in nice glasses as individual servings.

Yum! xxxx

Choc Honeycomb SliceAnd who wouldn’t love this one? Very quick, very easy, very tasty.... Mmmm!

Great to serve in small pieces as part of a Xmas dessert selection.

Prep 20min + freezing time

Makes 16 pieces

Ingredients:

Y 250gm Malt Biscuits

Y 4x50g Violet Crumble Bars

Y 600ml Thickened Cream

Y 395g Nestlé s Sweetened Condensed Milk

Method

Grease & line 18x28cm lamington pans with baking paper.

Layer biscuit over base.

With an electric mixer beat cream until peak forms.

Pour in condensed milk & continue until firm.

Crumble 3 violet crumble bars & fold into cream.

Pour cream mixture over biscuits.

Crush remaining Violet Crumble and sprinkle over top.

Glad wrap and freeze over night or until set.

Cut into squares

*Note: Crunchie bars can be used instead of Violet Crumble or experiment with others like Mars Bars, Peppermint Bars etc.

Then sit back and Enjoy!

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The Riverland Wine & Food Festival is held in October each year and includes a week of wine tasting events.

This year, long time Monash family, the Heward’s, joined in the event and promoted their Heward Estate “Mannum Cliffs” range of wines with delicious food platters and wine tastings in their Monash vineyard.

Dad, John Heward is in his late 70’s and has lived in Monash on a fruit block for most of his life. He’s a Monash legend!

Son, Michael, has a wine grape growing property at Mannum and produces his own range of wines under the “Heward Estate - Mannum Cliffs” label.

Michael’s brother Donald also has his own wine

grape property in Monash.

Their display included a couple of the vintage trucks that John has restored which was a great opportunity to show them off and added another nice touch to their delightfully different display amongst the vines.

Ali & Danny joined them for Saturday lunch and had a good chinwag with the Hewards, plus other visitors.

We must say, their Sauvignon Blanc is one of the best Australian Sav Blanc’s we have tasted. Their Shiraz and Rose are also exceptional. So if you get the opportunity to buy their brand, we highly recommend you give it a go!

Michael’s mate, James Steven’s from Mannum, also joined them to help out ... As mates do. Turns out James has been receiving our FARM GATE NEWS magazines since its inception ... So he’s almost family too.

And by the way, apart from being great “cobbers”, John has a couple of “Grant” sheds and Donald has one as well ... So these Hewards have gotta be great blokes, hey?

You Little Ripper...Grant Sheds

Local Monash Legends

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Fast, Simple & Tasty Recipes For

BIG ComplimentsAt Your Christmas Dinner

John Heward’s 12m x 18m x 3.6m Grant

Sheds Machinery Shed

Sliding doors are supplied with decent sized, easy to use, handles. It’s these little things you may not think of, but they make using your shed much easier.

Michael, Donald & John Heward at their wine & food tasting function at Monash in the

Riverland in October.

Michael, Donald & John Heward at their

wine & food tasting function at Monash in

the Riverland in October.

Little Known Secrets of Grant Sheds Designs

Sliding doors in Grant Sheds farm sheds are made using 40mm or 50mm RHS steel and are MUCH stronger than other brands.

The sliding door tracks and door carriages/rollers we use are the Rolls Royce variety which last for decades. No cheap ‘crap’ here because we know you want easy-roll doors even if they are very big doors

The X-Bracing in the roof and the welded and bolted framing that makes Grant Sheds much stronger and more stable than most others.

Local Aussie

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GRANT SHEDS PO Box 29, Monash SA 5342 EMAIL [email protected] © Copyright New Horizons (SA) Pty Ltd, Trading as “Grant Sheds” No portion of this newsletter may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. This newsletter is distributed with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering any legal or professional advice of any kind. The publisher disclaims any personal liability for the information, advice, recommendations and/or strategies presented within. It is up to the reader to comply with any local, state or federal laws.

FARM GATE NEWS: The Farmer’s Newsletter PHONE 1800 088 528 EMAIL [email protected]

Grant Sheds PO Box 29 Monash SA 5342 Fax: 08 8583 5402 web: www.grantsheds.com.au GRANT SHEDS PO Box 29, Monash, SA 5342 FAX 08 8583 5402 WEB www.grantsheds.com.au

MONTHLY HUMOUR

Get a farm shed and enjoy FOR A WHOLE YEAR!

Get Your NEW SHED and FREE BEER Now! FREECALL: 1800 088 528

The Beer PrayerOur lager

Which art in barrelsHallowed by thy drink

Thy will be drunk (I will be drunk)

At home as if in tavern

Give us this day our foamy head

And forgive us our spillages

As we forgive those who spill against us

And lead us not to incarceration

But deliver us from hangovers

For thine is the beer, the bitter, the larger

For ever and ever...barmen

A new supermarket opened in Topeka, Kansas. It has an automatic mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain!When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and there is the scent of freshly mowed hay.When you approach the egg section, you hear the hens clucking and cackling, and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.The bread department features the tantalising smell of fresh baked bread and cookies.But ... it may be wise not to buy toilet paper there!

We all know the farming game can be a hard slog … Backbreak-ing work, especially during those long hot summer days. And there’s nothing better than finishing off a steamy, energy sap-ping day than by knocking back an icy cold “life-saving” beer!

So we’re having a

Sizzling Summer Celebration!Here’s an unbelievable offer that you won’t see very often!You’re going to think we’ve gone crazy when you read a bit further, but that’s alright.We subscribe to the theory “to make a difference, you’ve got to be different!” I believe you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better shed than a Grant shed and I want to give you a chance to find out for yourself....I’m either confident or crazy!

What I truly believe is, we make the best “Aussie Tough” farm sheds around. Here’s your chance to find out. Get all the details on Page 3 of this edition of FARM GATE NEWS!

Reward Yourself This Summer with a nice …

Frosty Cold … BEER.

“Quote”Never regret

If it’s good, it’s wonderful.

If it’s bad, it’s experience.”

Victoria Holt (1906-1993) British writer

A Sense Of Freshness


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