1909 - Reserve 44298 notified.
 
1912 – Trangie and District residents made it known that they want a Demonstration Farm near Trangie and also wanted the Lease 162 known as the “Mullah Scrub Lease” to be resumed for closer settlement.  The State government puts forward the idea that the Lease 162 be added to Reserve 44298 and the whole area to form an Experiment Farm.

1914 – Department of Agriculture takes over the Mullah Scrub Lease.  Clearing operations begin in November as 100 men are employed to do the job.  The virgin country was described by Mr JW Matthews, Sheep and Wool Expert as being thickly covered with dead box, buddah, yarran and cypress with clumps of green currant bush.  In December, the Minister for Agriculture visited the site and reported that that everything was going on satisfactorily, and that he expected to have 20-furrow ploughs on the job within a fortnight, drawn by tractor power.

1915 – Clearing of 2000 acres (800 hectares) completed by May and 1500 acres (600 hectares) sown to wheat on virgin country.  Rains ensure that a high-quality crop is grown and harvested.  Trangie Sheep Stud (Registered Flock Number 78) founded and managed as a single flock up until 1942.  Its purpose was the production of sale rams and for student training.  Research was limited to flystrike.

1922 – Tractor trials on Trangie Experiment Farm.  Mr LS Harrison, Senior Agricultural Instructor, had been approached by tractor importing firms to conduct ploughing trials under supervision.  All such companies were invited and six agreed to participate.

1921 – Cereal trials started at Trangie Experiment Farm.  Various varieties of wheat for grain production (Canberra, Hard Federation, Improved Steinwedel, Ghurka and Sands) and hay production (Fairbank, Improved Steinwedel, Bowmen, Gresley, Warren, Gurya’s Early and Florence) were tested.  Trial of oats to determine the best for the district tested the Sunrise, Kelsall’s, Quandong and Mulga varieties.

1927 – Wheat-oats-fallow rotation shown to be the best for districts with a reliable rainfall.

1929 – Angus herd established with the purchase of two bulls and 18 females from Glencarnock Stud, Brandon, Canada.  The aim was to breed high quality bulls for release to the beef industry to ensure that their export beef was competitive.

1933 – “Blackcap Eric” wins champion bull and “Trangie Erica” wins reserve champion cow at R.A.S. Show.  This is the start of a long history of show success.

1939 – Brindley Park Flock brought to Trangie.  This was a flock of finewools and the aim was to study their value on the western plains.  The conclusion was that they can be grown but were not as profitable as Peppins since the lower fleece weight was not offset by a higher price for fineness.

1942 – Sheep Stud flock divided and an experiment was started to breed a flock of sheep free of wrinkles in order to determine wether this would interfere with other production traits.  Work was also commenced to improve the efficiency of artificial insemination in sheep and the efficiency of non-genetic means of controlling flystrike.

1944 – Corriedale flock established in order to study the usefulness of the breed for the Trangie district.  The work concluded that the Corriedale was of limited use for the area due to its unreliability in producing autumn lambs.

1947 – Cooperative grazing trial in collaboration with CSIRO commenced in order to determine optimum levels of stocking.

1950 – New Wool Testing Laboratory opened by the Minister for Agriculture on 15th March.  Wettest year on record.  A total of 1902 points (476mm) fell in February alone.  Trangie Research Station flooded five times during the year.  Nine of the plots of the pasture trial had to be abandoned due to flood damage to fences.  This year also saw the complete reorganisation of the sheep genetics work wherein the main Station flock was divided into two halves.  One of these halves was divided into four selection flocks to be selected for and against the following characters, ignoring all others; weaning weight, skin folds, fineness and clean fleece weight.  The second half of the flock became the Selection Demonstration Flock and was used to develop a Merino most suited to the Trangie district.

1959 – Establishment of the Fertility Flock.

1963 – Commencement of a project to establish the role of performance recording in beef breeding.  Equal weight was given to weight gain and visually-assessed conformation.  The work successfully demonstrated the usefulness of performance measurement.  Fleece Measurement Service commenced.

1964 – Trangie Angus Herd closed to outside introductions.  To date, besides the original imports from Canada, further imports from Canada as well as from the US and Scotland were made.  The last imported bull arrived in 1956, after which time introductions came from leading New South Wales studs.

1971 – Project to compare objective measurement of cattle with appraisal by experienced stud breeders.

1974 – Project to assess selection for growth rate in cattle on herd profitability.
Trangie Agricultural Research Centre