There was plenty of agricultural prosperity in May 1974 but a federal election campaign was also in full swing.
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The Labor party gained another term with its funding pledge including $160m for two major railway projects- the Tarcoola to Alice Springs railway and the Adelaide-Crystal Brook standard gauge link.
Making headlines in stud stock was the Glen Osmond Poll Hereford stud dispersal at Kangaringa, Keith, where 229 lots grossed $1m in less than five hours.
This included a world record breed price for a female of $28,000 for CBH Meditate 21, while stud sire Kildrummie Ukraine sold for $32,000 to a Vic syndicate.
The South Australia Meat Corporation trialled selling pigs by computer began using carcase measurement and Struan Research Centre was officially opened as the regional headquarters for the Department for Primary Industries.
Konetta Station at Greenways in the South East was sold at auction by the Gibbs family to well-known pastoralists AJ&PA McBride for $878, 897- equating to $139 an acre.
