As agricultural and pastoral companies resisted corporate raiders, merged and reorganised their businesses in 1975, Alan Duncombe made a decision that was to change his family's life and the livestock sector across the Crookwell district.
Alan was Crookwell's branch manager for Pitt, Son & Badgery, which was about to be sold off to Elders Smiths, and he was having none of it.
He'd worked for the w...