NEXT GEN GROWER
Luke Loman
My name is Luke Loman and my family owns Loman Farms. We farm in the Picture Butte area and have land near Enchant. My Opa moved to Canada in 1959 and settled in the Picture Butte area where he started farming on the same land we farm today.
Loman Farms has been around for three generations. My dad and two of my uncles currently run the farm. Myself and two of my cousins also help out throughout the year as well.
I chose farming as my career because as I was growing up on our farm, I came to appreciate what farmers do. I also enjoy the farm work and working outdoors in the summer. The idea of continuing and growing our family farm also excites me and makes me want to farm.
We currently grow sugar beets, cereal crops and canola in our rotation. Our farm also used to raise pigs as well.
We have been growing sugar beets since my Oma and Opa moved to Canada in 1959. The first digger used on the farm was a one row Marbeet sugar beet harvester. Today we use a 12 row Arts Way digger on the farm to harvest all the sugar beets that we grow.
We grow sugar beets because they are a good addition to our crop rotation, good for disease prevention and they are also good for the farm financially.
This Spring I will be finishing the four-year Bachelor of Agriculture Sciences degree program at Lethbridge College and will be starting a job at Vanee Farm Centre in Lethbridge in the GPS department, where I hope to learn about the technological side of farming and hope to bring this knowledge back to the farm.