Fifteen farm families have worked throughout the year to grow 120 acres of canola that will be harvested early Saturday afternoon with all of the proceeds to going to assist children in India, Cambodia and Brazil.
Harvest for Kids has been active in the Saskatoon area, highlighted by a 2012 event in the Dalmeny area that set a Guinness Book of World record for the most combines harvesting simultaneously on the same field. It took 244 combines less than five minutes to harvest a single field. The new world record of 303 combines was established six years later at Winkler, Manitoba.
The current focus is on smaller harvest projects. There are four in the Saskatoon region this year with the one near Hepburn being the final one. One of this year’s projects cleared $75,000 from a wheat crop.
The general public is invited to the Harvest for Kids event on Saturday. There will be a lunch at 11:30 with activities for children. The harvest will begin sometime between 12:30pm and 1pm.
The directions are four kilometres west of Hepburn, then 6.4 kilometres north and one kilometre east.
CJWW Agriculture Director Neil Billinger spoke to Dave Thiessen with Harvest for Kids. He talks about the event in Hepburn as well as where all of the proceeds go.
