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

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Family StoriesAli’s dad, Grant Telfer, started Grant Sheds back in 1952 when he was just 20 years old. He’s a fit and healthy 80 year old now, but over a few months he’d had an irregular heart beat. It didn’t bother him much to start with and his GP said it was nothing to worry about, but this winter he noticed that he lacked energy, needed more sleep and was feeling the cold much more than usual.

Of course, it could be mild depression since his wife (Ali’s mum) died only 7 months ago ... But he really didn’t think this was the case.

Here’s Ali’s further explanation of the story. Told in the interest of sharing stories that may help others in a similar situation.

“I told Dad to visit his GP and get a referral to a cardiologist - just to get a specialist opinion on the irregular heartbeat. The GP reiterated that it was nothing to worry about and a cardiologist appointment wasn’t necessary.

Dad is a very patient person and doesn’t like to put anyone out and of the old-school who trusts his doctor to give the right decision. Unfortunately I don’t have the same faith and

told him to go back and insist on a referral to Mum’s cardiologist who I know is a really lovely man ... A true gentleman and caring doctor.

So dad did this and after a scan and an ECG, the cardiologist believed it was something that was wise to treat now while dad is still fit and healthy. He recommended he take Warfarin and have his heart ‘shocked’ back into correct rhythm.

He described the irregular heart beat as caused by the top chamber of dad’s heart ‘shivering’ even though the lower chamber was beating well.

I took Dad to Adelaide for the heart-shock (which would be under general anaesthetic), but guess what ? When he got to Adelaide his heart was beating correctly and they will only do the heart-shock when it is not beating right. So instead he was prescribed a beta-blocker and sent home.

Dad says that within days (if not hours), he was feeling better and brighter ... AND ... His arthritic knee is feeling much better! He’d only recently seen an orthopaedic surgeon about his knee and was seriously considering a knee replacement. That is now on hold!

Now obviously, I am not a doctor and what I’ve shared with you here may not be completely accurate, but the gist of the story is right.

If you have any comments on similar stories you’ve heard about or if you’d like the name of the wonderful cardiologist who treated mum for many years and now Dad, just contact me and I’ll be happy to let you know.

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I hope you will. I really look forward to it.

Here’s a quick heads-up and something worth your while considering.

If you are planning to build a new farm shed, but you haven’t organised it yet, remember that harvest time will be here before you know it.

If you call us now and get it underway, you will avoid your harvest-time pressure period AND you will be able to book in the erection of your shed by our fantastic shed builders straight after harvest.

Our Master Class Shed Building teams have worked with us for over 20 years and they are just brilliant with their work.

Milton Chandler has 5 GRANT SHEDS farm sheds and here’s what he thinks of the sheds and builder Steve:

Order your shed now and you’ll have done the preliminary work before harvest and won’t have to think about it again until after harvest, AND you will already have your locked-in place in the building queue.

Some of our builders are booked out for up to 6 months ahead, so if you wait until after harvest before you order, it will still be a long wait to have it built. Where as, if you order now, you’ll have your new farm shed ready to use early in the new year! Wouldn’t that be nice.

Until next time .... All the best,

Ali & Danny HalupkaOwners - Grant Sheds

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Order You Shed Before Harvest

So You Lock In Your Building Time

Your sheds are a very good product and Steve’s professionalism as a builder is faultless. We enjoy the guys’ company and look forward to catching up again soon”

Milton Chandler Ceduna, SA

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See You At The Field Days 19-20th Sept - Wed-Thurs Riverland Field Days - BarmeraWe will be attending these field days and look forward to seeing you there. If you’d like some help with your shed planning we are happy to help. Or just call in for a chat. We’d love to see you.

Magic Mind-Reading

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You Little RipperLOCAL AUSSIE LEGENDS

This edition’s “Local Aussie Legends” section highlights the people of the Monash community who run our annual “Monash Shindig.”

Our local Monash Memorial Hall committee (of only about 8 people) puts on this fun community event each year with the aim to:

1. Raise funds for our hall

2. Help other community & sporting groups raise funds

3. Get our hall used by locals

Bringing Community TogetherBut the main reason is to bring people in our community together for a fun, social night out. The Shindig has a 3 course sit-down meal and entertainment of skits, singing and dancing. It is all put on by volunteers willingly accepting the call when they are dobbed in by one of their mates!

Interestingly, wherever you are from around our state, you may know some of our local community people in these photos because some of them are well known for various reasons.

Community Fund RaisingOther community groups help out and share in the profits:

MONASH CFS - Runs the bar and keeps the profits, around $1000.

LOCAL CHURCH - In 2010, church ladies helped and were given $1000 to paint the church.

YOUTH GROUP - A local youth group YACU helps and runs raffles that have given them funds.

SPORTING CLUBS - This year the Monash Combined Sporting Clubs will help out and receive a donation in return.

So you can see, while the event is organised by one community group, we’re sharing the proceeds widely.

Monash Memorial HallDanny and I are on the Monash Hall committee along with another 6 or so enthusiastic and hard-working people. I’ve been the treasurer and hall caretaker for about 24 years and Danny got dragged in a few years ago. It’s this insiders knowledge of the fun we have with our Monash Shindig that led me to share this story.

Country Hall MemoriesThere are lots of country halls that have become derelict due to shrinking town populations.

I hear lots of stories from our older generations

about their memories of attending dances at the Monash Hall. How they couldn’t drink alcohol within a certain distance of the hall, so all the men would head down the road a bit at supper time, for a nip or a guzzle, leaving the ladies back at the hall on their own.

During my own childhood, our Monash Primary School end of year concerts were always held in the hall. Close to Christmas so it was usually hot & stuffy, but the kids didn’t care ... As long as they could find mum or dad in the audience during their stage performance.

So it is with much pride that I stay committed to being on our Monash Memorial Hall committee and proud of the maintenance and upgrade achievements our small but enthusiastic band of members has achieved .... but perhaps I’ll tell you all about that in another edition.

Help For Your Country HallIf you are on your local country town hall committee and would like any information on how we run our “Monash Shindig” to raise funds and create community togetherness, Danny & I would be happy to chat with you. Just contact either of us by any of the contact methods shown on the front and back pages of this newsletter.

2011 Monash Shindig. Sold out within 5 days of sales opening! Some of the

200 people enjoying the event.

Grand Dames of Monash - Josie Nelsson, Rene Heward & Joy Stoeckel.

All Local Aussie Legends.

Entertainers Jacque Zagotsis & Local Legend Geoff Higgs who also carts grain in the Mid North each year.

MC Brian Smith. Well known in the Riverland & Cleve.

Danny & Ali Halupka in our Gangster skit

Danny Halupka serving grilled

octopus entree

Paul Kelly from Jamestown entertained

in 2011

Geoff Higgs, known in mid North for grain

carting

Michael Stivahtaris–

Greek Masterchef

Phil Cmrlec -clowning

around for a laugh

Singing Mayor, Peter Hunt

Local Larrikin-Georgie Higgs. Also known in

mid North

Old-timer & Local Legend, John Heward

And Youngster Don Heward

Annual Monash Shindig

1952-2012

Mort is a 2nd generation farmer. His father Oscar settled their farm at Morkalla in 1926 with 1100 acres that he cleared - a big task by hand.

Mort was born at Loxton and lived in Morkalla all his life. He was part of a family of 10 children. “So Dad had a fair bit to do keeping food up to us,” Mort smiles.

Paula’s family were also on a farm, down at Walpeup. Her family name is Hanning and she has four brothers there, still on the land.

Mort and Paula have been married for 57 years and have “retired” to Mildura but they still spend anywhere from 1 day to 5 days per week at the farm. Mort says it stops him going mad sitting around in Mildura.

But Mort has just bought another 3000 acres close to their existing Morkalla farm which is 5500 acres, giving them a total of about 8500 acres of farming land now. Mort sowed about 3000 acres on his previous land and with the extra land, he now sows about 7000 acres. “Just a bit more work!” Paula adds sarcastically.

Average rainfall in the area is about 10” which is plenty for 5-7 bag to the acre crops - if the rains arrive at the crucial times.

The Old Days Of Farming In the early days, it was all bags. “I remember we used to cart it and lump bags. That’s how we made an extra bob,” says Mort. “Some went to Morkalla and every siding along the line had wheat bag stacks.”Then it all changed to bulk, “But the cockies were still carting in bags, then tipping them into a bin and put them up the auger and into the railway carriages because there wasn’t silos then,” Mort reminisces.

Mort has seen lots of changes on how grain is sown and harvested. “I remember doing it with a 16 Combine,” he says, “One bloke sitting on the tractor and another bloke on the machine putting it in and out. There were no hydraulics then.”

“And we’d wear plenty of overcoats over the night when you tried to work a bit late. I always seemed to be the silly bloke. My older brother would usually sit on the tractor and he’d get a bit of warmth from it and I’d be on the back on the Combine, putting the handle in and out,” he says.

“Everything is too good for them now,” says Mort, referring to air conditioned cabs etc. Mort reckons farmers are soft now because everything is so easy, with satellite navigation. “They can probably read the paper while they’re going along from one side to the other – I know Rod does,” Mort smirks. And Paula adds, “As long as they don’t go to sleep.”

Mort chuckles, “I know one farmer out home who went through the fence. He went to sleep going across the paddock and came out the other side – he went through his own fence!” Times have changed, there’s no doubt about that.

Mort can remember his father and older brother driving horses in the old days with old moldboard ploughs but Mort was only a kid then. [A moldboard is the wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plough blade that turns the furrow.]

Spot-Lighting Rigs Mort has two very old spot-lighting vehicles in a small shed at the farm. He says, “My kids used to chase emus and kangaroos in the old Holden but when we were young, we had the old T-model Ford to chase kangaroos .. until the wheels fell off!”“The old Rugby was a bit modern. We even had a rifle holder on it to steady the rifle. That was just used for rabbit shooting. We didn’t use it much because it wasn’t fast enough,” he recalls.

Rabbit Truck Mort also drove the ‘Rabbit Truck’ for two years from around the age of 18. “I used to go out around South Australia, right down to Swan Reach, through Loxton and back, picking up from all the rabbit trappers.” Mort recalls.

“They were all dirt roads and on the Pata to Alwoona road I used to go over all these mounds and the old Bedford 4 ½ tonner would scream at me,” the larrikin in him recollects.

The rabbits were taken back to chillers at Morkalla, then every week they would be taken, frozen, to Melbourne in a semi trailer.

Once A Farmer... Always a Farmer IS FARMING IN YOUR BLOOD?

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Mort & Paula Mattschoss of Morkalla in western Vic discuss their long farming life and how things have changed .

Danny from Grant Sheds shares a laugh with John Impey & Geoff Gray, both neighbours of Mort’s in Morkalla.

The Old Rugby

15m x 30m x5.1m Grant Sheds 2008 Machinery ShedNo.10 of Mort’s 10 Grant Sheds farm sheds, purchased over 49 years. Storing valuable farm machinery under cover

of good, strong sheds reduces worry, improves re-sale value and means less repair work needs to be undertaken.

PlaguesMort remembers mice plagues which he says were the worst. “I can remember shearing and we were sleeping in a hut near the shearing shed and the mice were eating the buttons off my brother’s pyjama coat. They were walking all over him. They were just thick,” he recounts with disgust.

Mort purchased his first “Grant” shed back in the days of the bagged grain. It was a Mouseproof Barn, bought in 1959 and it still stands today. Before that farm sheds were just straw-thatched roofs. “We got rid of them with a match!” laughs Mort.

“And rabbits ... when we were first married we used to net the dams in and catch them and we’d go spotlighting in the ute.”

A netting fence was run around the dam. Holes were made in the netting and a funnel from the hole on the inside side of the fence. When the rabbits find the hole, they go in and along the funnel to find the water in the dam, but then can’t find their way back out.

“We’d get 200-300 pair of rabbits out of them in a night!” says Mort. That’s 400-600 rabbits every night!

No TillWhen asked about his opinion of no till operations, Mort says, “I’m not convinced about it. I don’t like using a lot of sprays.”

Mort says that with cropping, he has never burnt the straw over the past 20 years. “I’ve always smashed it up and I reckon it lays there and it must do some good.”

“Years ago we just used to burn it all bare. Some farmers do it now to get rid of snails but we haven’t had any snail problems ... except that some of the farmers might be a bit slow,” he chuckles.

Mort has bought 10 GRANT farm sheds over 50 years

1. Mouseproof Barn in 19592. Shearing Shed3. Leanto on the shearing shed4. Machinery Shed – 100’ x 30’5. Another leanto6. Machinery Shed – Another 100’ x 30’7. Sliding Roof Bulk Fertiliser Shed8. Bulk Grain Shed9. Extension on Machinery Shed10. Big C Machinery Shed 15m x 30m x 5.1m

And then Mort laughs as he says that the new property also has Grant Sheds on it, including a big Grain Shed, a Shearing Shed and a Fertiliser Shed. So that makes at least 13 ‘Grant’ sheds!

Paula’s Other LifePaula had the post office at Morkalla for a fair while and was District Nurse for close to 25 years, so she was well known in the district.

Mort’s 1947 ChevyMort has a 1947 Chevy which he intended restoring as a hobby. He asked a place at Mt Barker how much they’d charge to restore it for him and was shocked at the quoted price of $50-$60,000 to make it like new. “That frightened the daylights out of me,” Mort remembers.

Mort says, “Farming is in my blood and it always has been. Paula thought we’d retired but Once a farmer – Always a farmer.”

“I keep laying in bed at night and thinking about what should be done out there on the farm. I like

to get out and be there.”

When asked who looks after the farm when he’s not there, Mort replies with a cheeky chuckle, “Well John’s supposed to.” [John will know who he is and so will many other Morkalla locals.] And my son Rod does quite a bit.

What it comes back to is that Mort just loves farming!

If you would like the same satisfaction Mort’s had with his Grant sheds experience, let us help you plan your new farm shed. Phone us on

Freecall 1800 088 528.To view the full video interview with Mort &

Paula Mattschoss, type this URL into your web browser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnMpiN0xGw

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What Are Your BIGGEST WORRIES?

“I keep laying in bed at night and thinking about what should be done on the farm..”

Mort’s Grant Sheds Bulk Grain Shed Mort’s 1947 Chevy

84 Year Old Mort Mattschoss On his Morkalla farm that’s belonged to the family since 1926

He crops 7000 acres and has cattle and just a few sheep.

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Aged care...Be preparedMoving from the home to an aged care facility can be very stressful, not only for the person requiring care, but also for family members.

Choosing the best aged care facility suitable to the person’s needs is paramount. It is also extremely important to prepare for the financial consequences before making any decisions.

The rules surrounding the initial and ongoing costs of age care are complex. Broadly there are two types of costs:

Accommodation Costs• Lump sum accommodation bond

(payable when entering low care hostel accommodation) or

• Daily accommodation charge (ongoing daily fee payable for high care nursing home accommodation)

Care Costs• Basic Daily Care Fee (both hostels and

nursing homes); and

• Daily Income Tested – if applicable (both hostels and nursing homes) *

*If you receive income other than a pension, you will be assessed by Centrelink to determine how much extra you can be asked to pay.

For those involved in Family Trust entities the Centrelink assessment rules are very complex. It is imperative that advice is sought to keep extra charges to a minimum.

What to do with the family home is one of the most important decisions for people moving into age care. Many people assume that the home needs to be sold to support the cost of an aged care place, but this isn’t always the case. For those entering high level nursing home care, holding onto the home and renting it out may be the best strategy. Where a daily

accommodation charge is payable, the home is not counted as an asset and rent is not counted as income. Therefore holding on to the home may be an effective strategy to enhance Age Pension benefits and reduce daily care costs.

To minimise accommodation and care costs, it is important that advice is sought. William Buck Wealth Advisors specialise in the area of aged care.

If you need to discuss the circumstances of your family situation, please contact:

Janine Williamson Senior Financial Advisor Ph: 08 8409 4333 or email janine.williamson@williambucksa.com.au

Discover Useful Tips ToREDUCE FRUSTRATION

In Your Farm Business & Family Life

OK, think about it, where did I put that file? I know it’s here somewhere. Well at least I think it is!

How many times have you found yourself in this predicament? You know you saved a file somewhere on your computer but after that you’re lost. It’s all good when you start out but when your file collection be it photos from your camera or business documents starts to grow you find it increasingly difficult to locate the file you want. Here are a few pointers that I hope will help you to get them under control again.

Firstly you need to put a bit of thought into the file structure that suits you best but what works for one person may not suit another. Luckily Windows Vista and Windows 7 start you in the right direction by having default locations for Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music and Videos. But you can still end up with a massive blob of picture files in My Pictures with varying filename structures.

Think about how your life works and create a folder structure accordingly. Start at a basic level and work down e.g. you might have a top level folder for Personal, then Family and under that Children, Garden, Social events and so on. As mentioned before Windows will default the saving of documents to “My Documents” and photos to “My Pictures” so especially for your personal files it may make sense to have a similar folder structure in both of these locations. If you have a business you might want to then have a top level folder in “My Documents” for your business name and under that you may have folders such as Advertising, Budget, Customers, Development, etc.

Once you have your folder structure sorted, think about your file naming convention (how you name your files). If you are using your folder structure properly it will aid in the naming of your files. If you save a budget file in a folder called budget then it isn’t necessary to call the file budget but what is more important is what the budget is relevant to and the period it is for, e.g. “Sales 2010-11”. If you have your naming convention right the files will self sort themselves too e.g. next year’s sales budget would be “Sales 2011-12” so it will sort nicely under last years. Some people like to include the date in the filename. In this case I find it useful to name them in year, month then day e.g.” 2011-03-31” as

again this will help with sorting by name.

If your files resemble a teenager’s bedroom and you want to take control, try creating a new folder at the top level called something like “_Before cleanup”. Note the underscore “_” at the beginning. This will place the folder at the top and make it easier to find. Now move (not copy) all your folders into this folder. Then create your folder structure and start moving (again not copying) your files into the new folders. This can be completed over a period of time but you will find it amazingly easy to locate your files once done. It can be a bit of a task but take the plunge and you won’t look back.

If you have any questions shoot me an email to botts@karbec.com.au and I’ll be happy to help.

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Monitor Drift Conditions ToAVOID SPRAYING HAZARDS

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Grain growers are always being told to avoid pesticide spray drift and the best way is to make sure you fully understand weather conditions that are likely to cause it.

The conditions that lead to surface temperature inversion (STI) is particularly important because that is when the potential for spray drift is high. It commonly occurs overnight when the ground loses heat and low-level air cools.

Air temperatures then increase with height and the temperature profile is said to be inverted. When this happens close to the ground it is called a surface temperature inversion.

Where as warm air rises, cool air is dense and stays at the surface. Sprays applied in these conditions can become trapped in this cool air layer and then unpredictable air movement can

transport droplets away from the target area.

Under these conditions , pesticides can move long distances at high concentrations near the surface and cause damage to non-target areas, often in directions and locations that cannot be guessed from the general weather patterns.

On-farm it is difficult to measure a STI so most people rely on visual clues such as• If mist, fog, dew or frost occurs

• If smoke or dust hangs in the air and moves sideways, just above the surface.

• Cumulus clouds that have built up during the day collapsing towards the evening,

• Sounds & smells becoming very clear at night.

• Wind speed is constantly less than 11kph in the evening and overnight

Clues That A STI Is Unlikely• Continuous overcast weather with low &

heavy cloud

• Continuous rain

• After a clear night, cumulus clouds begin to form.

• Wind speed remains above 11kph between sunset and sunrise.

Sometimes the overnight wind speed can pick up from virtually calm to >11kph during a STI, so the wind speed must be constant all night to ensure the air continues to mix and prevent airborne droplets from becoming concentrated and moving away from the sprayed area.

A highly recommended and very informative fact sheet “Surface Temperature Inversions and Spraying” is available from the GRDC www.grdc.com.au/GRDC-FS-sprayinversions

Always happy John Impey of Werrimul, Vic

Understanding Surface Temperature Inversions

When Spraying

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Where surface temperature inversion conditions (STI’s) exist:

• It is unsafe to spray due to the risk of spray drift.

• Spray applied at dawn, dusk and at night is liked to be affected.

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PerkS of beinG over 60 and headinG toward 70 or even older....

GRANT SHEDS 60 Year Anniversary

1990’sThe 90’s saw the coming of age of cold-rolled C-section steel suitable for construction of up to medium sized farm sheds. The C-section required less manufacture than sheds made with pipe.

The old pre-fabricated pipe frames required a lot of labour intensive cutting of pipe to various lengths, and welding the pieces together to make roof trusses and columns for a shed.

C-section could be ordered to precise length and be punched with holes for bolting frames together and attaching wall girts and roof purlins, at the same time that it is passing through the rolling machine.

This new reliance on machines to complete much of the labour component of shed-making reduced costs and led to cheaper sheds, but there was wide variation on the quality of these sheds between different shed makers.

As a result it took some time for C-section sheds to become commonplace.

Left: 1998 Grant Sheds delivery truck 1990’s From labour intensive, pre-fabricated, pipe frames (top) to new reduced labour Galavanised C-section steel

frames (bottom).

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nobel Prize for farmerA man is driving down a country road when he spots a farmer standing in the middle of a huge field of grass.He pulls the care over to the side of the road and notices that the farmer is just standing there, doing nothing.The man gets out of his car, walks over to the farmer and asks him what he is doing.The farmer replies, “I’m trying to wind a Nobel Prize,”“How?” asked the man, puzzled.

“Well I heard they give the Nobel Prize to people who are outstanding in their field.”

2012 is the 60th year of business for Grant Sheds. Started in 1952 by Ali’s father Grant Telfer, the business has had a close affinity with all rural areas of South Australia and western Victoria and New South Wales. Lots of farmers have multiple “Grant” sheds on their properties.

Over the months of this year we’ve brought you some interesting stories on the history of Grant Sheds from the 1950’s and now we’re up to the 1990’s. If you missed any of our earlier editions, give us a call and we’ll be happy to send them to you.

I asked my trainer which

machine at the gym I

should use to impress

beautiful women...he

pointed outside and said

“The ATM machine”

True Story

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