FIELD OF DREAMS

“They want it in their backyard when they hit retirement age.”

MY FIRST JOB out of school was unloading wheat trucks and loading wheat trains at the silos at The Rock, a lovely small town between Wagga Wagga and Albury in southern NSW.

It was 1980 and nearly every farm truck which trundled in was a small rigid built in the 1960s, with a grain bin perched on the back. Unloading involved opening usually very stiff old side