The Mabon Farm
Mr. Mabon
Farmer
Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba
Growing crops on a large scale maybe doesn't take a lot of time,
but the risk is high and you need a lot of equipment. In the last
5, 6 years, we've begun to diversify, so now we're in pork. We
sell about 6,000 hogs, piglets and sows, and some slaughter hogs
too. There is an emotional attachment, particularly to the land
I bought from my father. That's where I helped to clear the land,
piling up the roots as my father and my grandfather cleared that
land. When you realize all the hard manual labour that went into
that land, it's a labour of love, not like an investment in Nortel.
Together, my brother and I work about fifteen hundred acres. My
brother and I run the combines, either my wife or my son drives
the truck. All the work of large-scale farming and harvest, it's
the family that does it.
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