Sonibrand Farm | About us
Who we are
Arnold
President/Shareholder of Sonibrand Farm
Moved to Canada in 1992.
Deals mainly with cash crop and custom work.
Anna
SHAREHOLDER OF SONIBRAND FARM
Moved to Canada in 1992.
Does secretary work for the farm.
Hans Dittli
Was a partner in St.Isidore Storage from 1993-2023. He now helps Sonibrand with planting, trucking, and helps with harvesting.
Sonja
DAUGHTER OF ARNOLD AND ANNA SHAREHOLDER IN SONIBRAND
Manages dairy barn with husband and does secretary work for the farm.
Rene
SON-IN-LAW OF ARNOLD AND ANNA
SHAREHOLDER IN SONIBRAND
Manages dairy barn and takes care of part of the field work. Working at Sonibrand Farm since 2006.
Christian
SON OF ARNOLD AND ANNA
He is an all rounder.
Erik Snider
Working for Sonibrand since 2007.
He works the main shift manure spraying, part time truck driver and wherever else we need him.
Johannes Brunner
Working for the company as of September 2017. He is our full-time mechanic.
History
2023
Hans Dittli last year as owner and operator at St-Isidore Storage.
1992
Arnold and Anna Kuratli moved to Canada from Switzerland with their 3 children. They bought a grain elevator with 2, 500 tonne storage capacity and the 375 acres that were included.
1994
Hans Dittli and his wife Beatrice moves to Canada from Switzerland. Hans and Arnold became partners in the elevator. They then started the business as; St.Isidore Storage Ltd. The elevator has been expanded a great deal over the years with more capacity, bigger dryer and so forth.
1994
A free-stall dairy barn was built for 50 cows and all the young stock.
1996
Extension of the dairy barn was made to house a total of 100 dairy cows and it’s young stock.
2001
A greenhouse style calf barn was built to house the calves from 0-4 months.
2006
Built a hay plant shed 300x120ft
2009
Rene and Sonja Bühlmann-Kuratli became shareholder in Sonibrand Farm Inc. They run the dairy barn.
2014
Built new dairy barn for 134 milking cows and 2 Lely A4 milking robots.
2016
Fire destroys hay plant building/work shop
2017
Built work shop (no longer using it as hay plant or hay storage)