Kit Leake and his family are primarily wheat farmers and have been involved in farming for four generations.

Mario Varone and his family started farming in SE Hyden in 1957.

Since 1994, Ian and Dianne Haggerty have been implementing a holistic and integrated program of broadacre, dryland cropping of cereal grains; cereal hay crops; and grazing with specially bred sheep for wool and premium grade fat lambs.