Farming History
50 years of Farming
2024 marked our 50th year of farming. While it is certainly an anomaly for a city boy to choose farming as a career, it is also an impossibility without an opportunity.
My cousin Ron Hiebert gave me that opportunity in 1975 by sharing some of his rented land and equipment. (I had a tractor and a harrow).
Thus our first 2 years were spent at Sperling, Man. and Ron became a lifelong farming mentor to that city kid who thought he wanted to farm.
In 1977 we moved to Saskatchewan to a farm 4 miles from Dawns parents Emil and Mildred Slager, who along with Dawns brother Randy provided opportunities that would not have otherwise existed.
As our children Cameron, Clayton and Carma grew up they learned to work on the farm often for pennies on the dollar.
Help from good neighbors:
- Gerald and Neil Mehrer (Dawn’s cousins) and recently Jeremy Mehrer.
- Glen Schaan and family.
Help from family:
- my dad, Tom Wiebe
- Legacy Agro, the farm run by Cam and Lorrie and Clayton and Shawna
- our grandsons Tommy, Robbie (current hired man), Jamie and Jon, Connor and Hudson and Braeden.
- Carma and Richard helping whenever possible.
In short, something like this doesn’t happen without God’s provision and intervention through mentors, opportunity providers, hired men, family and neighbors.
In 2014, Kelvin and Dawn retired from Legacy Agro and sold their corporate common shares. Not wanting to retire completely and still loving the farm, Kelvin decided to carry on at a much smaller scale. A line of older equipment was purchased. With some part time help we operated 750 acres and continued to develop a 1/2 section recently purchased.
As of 2019, our smaller farm now consists of 1300 acres with most of the equipment about 25 years old. Our farm trucks are about 30-50 years old. KD Wiebe Farms raises wheat, canola, green peas, and malt barley.
