Talking to consumers AND Harvest for Kids

Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan wants direct discussion among farmers and consumers saying it is a key step toward building trust. Executive Director Clinton Monchuk says this organizations’ goal is encourage more farmers to get out there and talk to others about what they do. He'll share what some of the consequences are for not sharing those stories. Fifteen farm families have worked through the year to grow 120 acres of canola that was harvested with all the proceeds to going to assist children in India, Cambodia and Brazil. Harvest for Kids has been active in the Saskatoon area for more than a decade----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 249 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. One of this year's projects cleared $75,000 from a wheat crop. Art Thiessen with Harvest for Kids tells us about the event in Hepburn and explain where all the proceeds go.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.