The new shed: modern and under $100k
Lindsey Park farmer Jim Renkin OAM stood up to talk about his new shearing shed on Friday, September 2 - but he started with a disclaimer about his even newer OAM.
“While I was very honoured to receive it, to me OAM stands for Ordinary Australian Man,” Mr Renkin said.
He proceeded to launch into the meat and potatoes of the Landcare event.
“We’ve seen so many shearing sheds built by so-called experts which just don’t work,” he said.
“I talked to Peter about it, he said ‘I know nothing about shearing sheds’ and I said ‘good, you’ll do what I want’.”
Swanpool-based builder Peter Mennen spent three years building a new shearing shed over the top of Mr Renkin’s pre-World War II building.
“It happened in three stages and we never missed a shearing,” Mr Renkin said.
“It’s easy to go out and spend $100,000 or $250,000 on compliant sheds, but what we’ve done is make what we already had compliment and safe.”
The wool industry may seem off-topic for a Landcare field day, but Kerri Robson from the Gecko Clan Landcare Network said there was strong support for Landcare groups to branch out and have new ideas.
“Landcare can be what you want it to be. Farmers are very much not just managing their stock now, but the soil, the environment and everything,” Ms Robson said.
“Jim (Renkin) is apart of his Landcare group and it made sense to host a day out here for the farmers.”
The event focused on farm safety compliance and heard from AWN’s Rod Miller who discussed the buying trends in the premium wool market.
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