About four famous sportsmen have hailed from Baddaginnie including cricketer Merv Hughes, whose father taught at the school.
Rodney initiated a farm based sheep insemination program, inseminating his flock in the 1980s using rams borrowed from the Australian Merino Society. He achieved an acceptable 64 percent conception rate and huge increases in wool and sheep quality. The superior genes meant fibre diameter of their wool dropped two microns, worth about an extra $1per micron per kilogram. Rodney said that led to his best wool auction price yet of 1970c/kg a few years ago and although the auction market has since sagged somewhat, he has vowed to keep going until he gains 2000c/kg.
David Palmer