b'Above The chaff mill c. 1960s.Left A truck loaded with chaff.Opposite The chaff mill and weighbridgein Main Street, Kapunda, c. 1960s.In 1960, Max and Clydes dream to buildwas piqued, and in 1962 he built an oat factory their own chaff mill in Kapunda came tonext to the chaff mill in Kapunda and began pass, and soon they were selling theirexporting to Asia. produce to thoroughbred racehorse owners such as Colin Hayes, and to localThe oat mill produced clipped and graded fodder stores in Adelaide and Broken Hill.oats, rolled oats and hulled oats for both animal and human consumption. Its ten silos Max was shrewd, and hed been keeping aneach held a couple of hundred tonnes of oats, eye on other industries adjacent to his own.and at its height, the mill was producing 7000 Hed noticed the racehorse industry in Asia, tonnes each year. By the early nineties, the for example, was keen to get its hands onmarket had become more competitivequality clipped and graded oats. There wasso the decision was made to sell. no reason he couldnt branch out into the oat business, he thought. His entrepreneurial spirit 28 JOHNSONS100 YEARS IN THE MAKING'