Southern Manitoba volunteers have produced another crop for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Supporters of the CHUM grow project north of Altona gathered Monday to take off 150 acres of soybeans sewed by Little Morden Service back in the spring.
"We had gorgeous emergence. The field looked really pretty, but we didn't get the rains to finish it off," explained Isaac Froese.
The hope was to take off yields in the low 20s. Much to Froese's surprise, they ended up pulling 30 bushels an acre and delivered it to Red River Grain.
This was the 26th year for the CHUM grow project, the 21st on this particular parcel of land.
"Ben Bergman had this dream back in 1998," explained Froese. "For the first number of years, we were bouncing between fields but then the Penner family allowed us to have this particular field in 2002. They've been very generous."
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