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farming career. These came from The Nyabing and Katanning Shows in wool, sheep,
crop and inven ons. Also, local wheat and barley compe ons, hogget ewe and
wether trials.
I entered state canola compe ons to learn and compare myself with others. We
won several area and runner up prizes in the state canola compe on.
Each year they had a Na onal wheat compe
We were a finalist for so wheat one year.
on for five different grades of wheat.
Linley standing in the winning Na onal Canola Compe on in 1998
in Rocks Paddock
Na onal Golden Canola Award
The next year they brought canola into the Na onal compe on for the first me.
Linley and I entered a canola crop grown in the Rocks paddock into the Na onal
compe on. We would send in our monitoring sheet each month. We arrived home
to find a message on the answering machine to say we were a state finalist and they
want to come and interview us. This took place with several hours of interview.
They were impressed with the detail I had in the cropping book and what we were
doing. They had obviously done some checking around with areas I was involved in.
Next, we had a phone call to say we were the State winners and we weren’t allowed
to tell anyone. They sent Ian Baker, a journalist from Sydney to film and interview us
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