FARMGATENEWS END OF YEAR
“SPECIAL FEATURE”
SEE INSIDE FOR: THE YEAR IN REVIEW Respected Farmers look back on the year that was 2023
SHED OF THE YEAR See which shed wins the annual Grant Sheds “Shed of the Year”
SPECIAL OFFER Special offer on the “Shed of the Year” to celebrate the end of 2023
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Tom & Andrew Weckert, Brinkworth SA
Is this 15m x 36m x 6.3m drive-through Monster Machinery Shed this year’s “Shed of the Year?” See inside to find out…
SHED OF THE YEAR EXPLAINED Once again it’s been a bumper year at Grant Sheds! We’ve helped over 200 farmers realise their shed dreams. And this year we thought we’d continue last year’s fun with Grant Sheds “Shed of the Year” where we pick the category of shed that has helped farmers the most. How did we choose “Shed of the Year”?
Which shed will it be?
We used three criteria:
Read on to discover the finalists and overall winner… PLUS… the “centrefold” reveals how Respected Farmers saw their 2023 calendar year.
1. Helpfulness of shed to farmers 2. Numbers sold (not necessarily the “most” sold)
And, if you’re looking for your own end of year reward, check out the “Shed of the Year” special offer on the back page. You deserve it!
3. What we really loved about the type of shed
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H SHED OF THE YEAR FINALIST #1 Drive-through Machinery Shed
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This drive-through style shed is fast becoming one of our most popular shed designs.
This 15m x 36m x 6.3m monster easily fits a full air-seeder combo without unhitching. Options: Sliding doors each end (as above) or start with it open and fit doors later. Available in a multitude of sizes. *Doors on each end of shed above allow full opening of each end. Daniel Weckert, Brinkworth SA
Other Popular Machinery Shed Nominees that didn’t quite make the shortlist include...
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12m x 27m x 5.1m Machinery Shed. Open one side with 3 x 9m wide-span beams. Tim Prior, Hamilton SA
15m x 36m x 6.3m Easy Drive-through. Open both ends. Ultimate convenience. Tom Weckert, BrinkworthSA
15m x 30m x 5.1m Machinery Shed. Open One End. Great for long & wide equipment. Steven Millar, Nandaly Vic
15m x 31.5m x 5.1m Shed. 4 easy-roll sliding doors one end, 9m bay with doors in back corner. Andrew Bruce, Kadina SA
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21m x 48m x 6.4m MEGA Machinery Shed & Workshop. 12m beams (including drive-through bay) & Grant Sheds special design, easy-roll sliding door system for MEGA doors. Anthony Combe, Crystal Brook SA
30m x 30m x 6.3m double-gable Machinery Shed. Open one end. (Joined 15m span sheds with big ‘fast-flow’ box gutter between them) Scott, Rachel & Kolt Fraser, Quorn SA
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW Respected Farmers look back on the year that was 2023 Andy Withers, Naracoorte SA
“Exmoor Grazing Company” Beef Stud Cattle Your year on the land: Ups & downs, typical of life on the land. Highlights: 12 months ago we saw the best livestock prices ever! Hay prices lower so its been a good time to buy and store good hay for future use. Beef exports very high in tonnage terms & fresh, new markets developed which is good for the long term and means higher prices will be more sustainable. Challenges: Best livestock prices plunged to half the prices we were getting 12 months ago.
“Another outstanding Grant shed. Our 7th over 50 years! Most organised builders I’ve even seen…” Andy Withers, 15m x 18m x 6.3m Hay Shed
Benefits of your shed so far: I have 7 Grant Sheds. I LOVE my dedicated workshop, set up for ease of getting stuck into projects. Hay sheds are great for storing hay I grow or buy in & store. Machinery sheds perfect protecting our expensive equipment. Plans for 2024: Finish build of new house. Shortages have made it a drawn out project.
Greg Lowe, Hamley Bridge SA Dedicated Cropping Farmers
Your year on the land: Appreciate having son Bradley working with us. His mechanical and technical knowledge is a huge benefit. Highlights: 3 record years in a row. Pricing &/or yields high in all 3 years. Changed to knifepoints & press wheels on air seeder. Bradley adding new farm ideas. Challenges: Keeping up with technology of modern farm machinery. Drier year but crops hung on well due to sub-soil moisture. Benefits of your shed so far: Last shed virtually paid for itself in providing space & cover for the big, multi-month project of fitting the new knifepoints & press wheels.
“I prefer quality & the ease of all the organising Grant’s do for me. I wouldn’t go anywhere else.” Greg Lowe, 15m x 24m x 6.3m Machinery Shed
Plans for 2024: Another new shed! Always need more storage space. We pay big money for equipment won’t leave it out in the weather. And hoping for a good 2023 harvest and kind weather in 2024.
Ashley Rowe, Kadina SA
“Kentash Park” Cropping + Livestock Farmer Your year on the land: Average crop yields on well below average rainfall probably sums it up. Highlights: New drive-through Grant machinery shed with doors each end. New baby, we now have 3 girls under 4 (funny that the highlight of the shed came before the baby .. Haha!)
“Always a pleasure dealing with the Grant Challenges: Only 205mm of rain for the year in our area that usually has 350mm team. I didn’t even bother to seek prices from average. Getting urea timing right due to only small rain events to wash it in. Overall, others.” Ashley Rowe’s 15m x 30m x 5.1m slightly below average yields but quality was good so that’s a bonus. Livestock prices Drive-through shed low. Sheep down 70% & cattle down 50% on last year. Paddock feed now running out fast. Smaller hay cut than normal so glad we have our own baled hay from previous seasons stored in another Grant shed we own so hopefully won’t have to buy in feed & shedded hay retains feed quality. Benefits of your shed so far: It’s a drive-through style for truck & trailer combinations so there’s no need to disconnect which saves time & frustration. Plus it’s a space to store long things like augers that have lots of moving parts to protect from sun damage. Plans for 2024: “Have another crack!” Every year I try to improve things (new crop varieties, better practices, more streamlined, easier to do or upgrade something). Investing in the new machinery shed this year is an example. It will save me time, make things easier and protect equipment from harsh sun damage and use for quick & easy cover of trucks etc during harvest if rain forecast.
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Mark Bigg, Balaklava SA
“Majula Farms” Cropping and Sheep Grazing Your year on the land: Better than expected harvest. Earliest start and end to harvest ever (finished 20th November). Highlights: To get an average harvest on only 9” of rain for the year is pretty good. Sub-soil moisture available from 2022 wet year certainly helped, along with modern cropping techniques. Summer weed spraying is ‘king’ for retaining sub-soil moisture. I can easily see the difference on the one paddock I didn’t summer spray. Got around 2.5t/ha wheat & 3t/ha barley. When I came onto the farm 35 years ago, we’d have got ‘Sweet F.A.’ on this amount of rain, probably only .6-.8t/ha. Challenges: Deciding whether to continue with sheep or go to cropping only. Tempted to replace sheep with lentil crop as we’re currently getting $950/t for lentils while sheep prices are extremely low at present. Sheep are labour intensive and prevent us taking a decent length holiday. I’m still concerned about ‘putting all my eggs in one basket’ though. Benefits of your shed so far: Everything is undercover and makes things easier for me. I used to have things in hay sheds and other sheds, now I just take my equipment home to the new shed. Logistically that makes it a lot better. “Grant Sheds are great to deal with. Shed is strong, communication was exceptional. Builders great.” Mark Bigg, 30m x 78m x 8m MEGA Machinery Shed 2023
Plans for 2024: Stop Procrastinating. Make my decision about the sheep.
Trusted Since 1952
rs in Review YeaYear Ali & Danny’s 1952 - 2022
Production business owners, Grant Sheds. Committed to family & community. 1952 - 2022
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Our year: Continued busyness in business. A houseboat holiday delayed Trusted Since 1952 due to River Murray flooding. Enjoying life through inevitable ups and downs.
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1952 -sold, 2022 especially to repeat customers who appreciate our Highlights: The ongoing high level of sheds sheds and the relationships we build. Working with farmers and farming communities is something we genuinely enjoy. Two short holidays. One along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road and a recent one on a River Murray Houseboat with interstate Trusted friends. So lovely to show them our part of the world. Since 1952
Challenges: Managing shed material shortages and scheduling with long lead times. Juggling business, family & community commitments; handling executor positions for parents wills. Renovating Ali’s dad’s house. Observations: The wonderful legacy we have from our parents. Taught us the value of hard work, riding the highs & lows of running your own business & taking well judged risks to become successful. And of course, Ali’s dad’s community legacy of the (old) Monash Playground that he built and was loved by hundreds of thousands of visitors and is still talked about today, 30 years after it closed. Doing community work gives you back much more than you give as long as you don’t get hung up on the inevitable frustrations that can occur. If you give, while expecting frequent appreciation and accolades, you’ll likely get disappointed. Always give with the goodness of your heart rather than any expectation of return and then the appreciation seems to occur naturally. Plans for 2024: Balancing our work and recreation time better (hmmm… we said that last year.) It seems that busy people just keep busy. Even when something is completed or delegated, we fill that space with something else! Can’t keep good people down, hey?
“YOUR” Year in Review Take time to review your year. Celebrate the highlights and your wins. Learn from your challenges or mistakes rather than dwelling on the negatives. Plan your new year and put your plan into positive actions. Reflect again next year.
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H SHED OF THE YEAR FINALIST #2 URE T U F T BEA E RISES PRIC
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8.1m bays are still the most popular for our hay shed designs
12m x 24.3m x 6m Hay Shed. The 8.1m wide bay openings are ideal for large bale
storage without wasting space. Bale bumper rails protect the wall iron and optional UB front columns prevent column damage when frequently in and out-loading hay. Over the past 12 months, this shed in either 12m or 15m span has been the most popular hay shed. Other spans, lengths & heights available. Above: Rodney Lush, Keith SA
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12m x 18m x 5.1m Hay Shed. Ideal combination shed. Hay or wide machinery storage. Wayne Stoeckel, Loxton SA
15m x 45m x 6.3m Hay Shed. Open 1 end & 1 side, 5x9m bays. Wide space, easy access. Princess Royal Station, Burra SA
12m x 18m x 5.1m Combination shed. 9m bays suits wide machinery & hay. Colorbond Shane Ebert, Naracoorte SA
12m x 36m x 5.1m Hay Shed. Options: Open 1 or both ends to store different hay types. Andrew Whitehorn, Koolunga SA
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24m x 48.6m x 8.2m MEGA Export Hay Shed. 8.1m bays. Capacity of 3250 high density large square bales, 9 high (10 at centre) Tyler Stephenson & Pauline Stephenson, Spalding SA
15m x 32.4m x 6m Hay & Fodder Shed. Super storage of fodder for your stock, local or export hay. 4 x 8.1m bays, vertical bale bumpers protect wall iron, UB front columns. Charles Ashby, Coonalpyn SA
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H SHED OF THE YEAR FINALIST #3 Fertiliser Shed
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7.5m x 15m x 2.4m Sliding Roof Fertiliser Shed. Roof rolls open easily, you unload in minutes and avoid slow augering into silos. Shown here in the open position. In demand since fertiliser supplies limited and prices ever-increasing. A great shed, easy to build, critical to on-time fertiliser accessibility. Ray Kernick of Coonalpyn said of his, “The shed almost paid for itself in one year.” Options: Other sizes & swing doors available. Shed above belongs to: Roy Moncrieff, Coolamon NSW
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7.5m x 12m x 2.4m Sliding Roof Fertiliser Shed. Swing doors increase protection. Malcolm Bubner, Wasleys SA
20m x 60m x 5.1m Grain Shed. Open 1 end, 2946 tonnes grain capacity. Fast unload at harvest. Andrew & Annette Cass, Loxton SA
12m x 24m x 5.1m Combo Grain, fodder, machinery. Open 1 end. 693t grain cap. Andrew Cass, Loxton SA
17mx 37.5m x 5.3m Almond Shed. Easy, efficient, safe storage. Fully enclosed sheds also available. Peter Freeman, Renmark SA
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20m x 36m x 6m Combination Grain & Machinery Shed. Super-strong lining for grain weight. Open 20m end & long length is great for wide & long machinery combinations. Ben Rowntree, Ardrossan SA
26m x 24m x 2.5m Sheep Yard Cover. A great time to invest in on-farm efficiency for the future. Reduce shearing delays in wet weather, protect stock & team from harsh sun. Ron, Vivian, Damien & Annette Florance, Kangaroo Island SA
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“I could Use One of Those ... SPECIAL SHED OF THE YEAR OFFER” HURRY - Limited Time: When you order any of our “Finalist Sheds” by 31/1/2024 you get to enjoy the bonuses listed below...
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15m x 36m x 6.3m Drive-through Machinery Shed *Bonus - $2500 Discount - For 1st 3 who order by 31/1/2024 *Bonus - $1500 Discount on 12m x 36m x 6.3m version for 1st 3 *These bonuses apply with or without sliding doors (call for quotes)
2nd Place 7.5m x 15m x 2.4m Sliding Roof Fertiliser Shed *Bonus - $1000 Discount - For 1st 3 who order by 31/1/2024 + Extra $500 off cost of swing doors (when shed ordered with this option before 31/1/2024)
3rd Place 12m x 24.3m x 6m Perfect-Fit Hay Shed *Bonus - $1500 Discount - For 1st 3 who order by 31/1/2024 *Bonus - $2000 Discount on 15m x 24.3m x 6m version for 1st 3 We look forward to working with you on your new shed project and we promise to help you out every step of the way. Just a quick word before you decide to engage Grant Sheds to ensure the best possible result for us all.
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*To be eligible for the bonus items listed, you must be one of the first 3 for each shed listed to place your verbal order between 15/12/2023 to 31/1/2024 and pay your deposit within 7 days of placing your order. *Before ordering or otherwise relying on information within this publication, you must seek advice from your own independent advisor on how tax rulings may apply to your specific circumstances. *The ’Bonus Discounts’ listed above are restricted to the sheds described above, (with or without sliding doors for the Machinery Sheds). *Photos used in this publication are for illustration purposes only. Optional accessories may be shown that are not automatically included in prices when quoted unless specifically requested. *Grant Sheds buildings are based on Wind Region A unless otherwise advised. *Delivery & erection are available in most areas but not all. Please check prior to ordering. *Shed prices quoted are subject to change until your order is accepted and deposit paid. *Shed designs may vary dependent on size, layout & preferences.
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