Luymes Farms & Custom Farming in Moorefield has taken home some hardware at the Sollio Agriculture Next Generation Award Gala last week.
Luymes Farms earned the top prize in the Farm Succession category.
Luymes Farms & Custom Farming is run by brothers Rob and Mark Luymes who took over from their parents John and Elaine with the brothers sister Mel being a graduate in rural sociology and an agricultural consultant.
The family business is 2000 acres under cultivation and works on another 8000 acres for neighbouring companies, planting, spreading, mowing, baling, spraying and harvesting.
“Our customers count on us, and we count on them,” says Rob Muymes.
Mark also sharing in a release “We know all the surrounding fields like the back of our hand. For example, we know that there’s a two-day growth differential between the north and south of our 20-kilometre radius of action.”
Once a week, they exchange information with their Agromart retailer representative Tanja Checkley Sales Manager and Partner from Harriston Agromart.
Topics include disease and insect management, the best crop protection products to use, and the price and availability of various inputs.