Keith is a small farming town in the south-east of
South Australia. It is approximately 225 km from
Adelaide at the junction of the Dukes Highway and
the Riddoch Highway. Keith is sometimes referred
to as the 'lucerne capital of Australia' due to the
high number of lucerne growers in the region. In
the 2011 census, Keith had a population of 1,320.

The area around Keith has been transformed from
infertile pasture to productive farmland with the
addition to the soil of missing trace elements and
water piped from the Murray.