murtoa is the site of the largest rustically-built structure in the world, the murtoa no. 1 grain store, known locally as the "stick shed". because wheat could not be exported during the second world war, a "temporary" grain shed, 270m long and 60m wide, was built in late 1941 and early 1942, using 560 un-milled tree trunks. these "sticks", braced with iron tie rods, are set in a concrete floor and support a hipped corrugated iron roof. the impressive cathedral-like structure was last used to hold wheat in 1989-90.