Nestlé (Tongala), Southern Processing Ltd and Bonlac (Stanhope) all have food processing plants nearby.
Seven Kyabram footballers have won the Morris Medal; Wilf Cox (1934), Jeff Cooper (1958 & 1961), Charlie Stewart (1963), Dick Clay (1964), Peter Gittos (1987), Benny Gugliotti (1993) and Lincoln Withers (2008).
He then returned to the Goulburn Valley Football League, playing one season with Mooroopna and one season with Kyabram, before accepting the position as playing coach of the Palm Beach Currumbin Football Club on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1970.
Since Kyabram is the first album by singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke, released in 2004.