About Windiana Farms
Windiana Farms is a family owned farm in Southern Alberta, committed to growing quality crops – potatoes, cereals and forage.
Windiana Farms Description
Windiana Farms is a family owned farm in Southern Alberta, committed to growing quality crops – potatoes, cereals and forage. It was started by Mike & Cathy Wind in 1989, when Mike left a successful partnership to venture out on his own. Starting with a small land base and potato contract, through much hard work and many blessings, the farm has grown in size and added two sons, Jeremy and Kevin, as partners.
Our main crop is potatoes, for both chip and fry markets, contracted with Frito-Lay and Lamb Weston. Rotation crops include wheat, barley, commercial canola, seed canola, soybeans, peas, alfalfa and timothy hay. Farming is a good lifestyle and something we’re passionate about. It requires commitment and hard work – we never worry about being unemployed!
We take seriously the responsibility of growing good food, as well as being good stewards of the land, improving and leaving it better for future generations.
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New fuel storage and containment project complete.
Good to see our provincial gov’t taking interest in the Alberta Potato industry
Digging Russet Burbank’s for French fry production
Early potato harvest continues but we make time to tour several big groups today
Trying out some new hay drying technology thanks to Boot Farms and Vandenberg Hay Farms
Claas Baler and phiber stacker hard at work! #classquadrant #phiber
First cut Alfalfa is baled and in the shed before the rain
Making our carbon footprint smaller doing 2 operations at once
Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to check out the new office!
One of the best parts of being part of a farming community is the comradery! A new office building was recently completed on our farm, and so we are hosting a small open house on Thursday, Nov 2, 2017, from 1-3pm to break it in! (Not literally �) Come on out to the farm for a visit and refreshments, we would love to see you here! Call Mike (403-330-3294) or Jeremy (403-317-0916) with any questions.
A glimpse of Harvest 2017 in video form - we love what we do!
A feature in AgAdvance magazine about sustainability in the potato industry and agriculture in general.
And just like that, harvest is done! Thankful to the Lord for His provision and His hand of safety over us.
A few more pictures as the 2017 potato harvest continues
There is a lot more to potato farming than just pulling them out of the ground and storing them for the winter! This is what we are using as a hot box to check samples coming into storage; we gauge how much bruising is happening between the field and the storage so that we can keep that to the absolute minimum.
First spuds went into storage today!
Trying out the Claas tractor on the digger
Field run chipping potatoes being harvested