Guide to the Grain farming and harvesting, Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, 1986-2020

A worker receiving grain from a farm worker at Rainbow grain terminal, Rainbow, Victoria, 4 December, 2018 (Item PIC/21265/1)

Painted grain silos at Sea Lake in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria, 23 November, 2019 (Item PIC/21265/2)

Towns like Sea Lake were once on the brink of becoming ghost towns, but have since undergone a tourism revival, bought on in part by the painting of grain silos across Australia. The artwork depicts a young girl swinging from a mallee eucalyptus tree gazing out over the endless vista that is Lake Tyrrell. A powerful Wedge Tail Eagle saws above the girl and emus run off into the night.

A tractor harvesting wheat at dusk against a backdrop of wind turbines near Blackheath, Wimmera region, Victoria, 3 December, 2020 (Item PIC/21265/3)

Mervyn Donnellon finds his shoe in a field truck during harvest, Whirily, Victoria, December, 1989 (Item PIC/21265/4)

Steve Parry and Mervyn Donnellon take a break from harvesting in the shade of a wheat bin at Whirily near Birchip, Victoria, December, 1989 (Item PIC/21265/5)

A farmer watching grain being unloaded from a truck, Victoria, 1 December, 1986 (Item PIC/21265/6)

A farmer standing near a grain truck during wheat harvest, Quambatook, Victoria, December, 1986 (Item PIC/21265/7)

The truck door bears the name R & B Malone, Farmers, Gredgwin.

Father and son, Jim and Tim Cass, standing in a wheat field near their header and tractor used for harvesting grain, Loxton, South Australia, December, 1995 (Item PIC/21265/8)

Terminal operator, Kate Young at Carrathool grain teminal, Carrathool, New South Wales, 12 December, 2005 (Item PIC/21265/9)