The Canadian Foodgrain’s Bank is a Christian Response to Hunger.

Each year Donations from Farmers, Individuals, and Community Growing Projects help member organizations to Feed the Worlds Hungry and assist them in infrastructure projects to help them grow their own food.

One of the first growing projects for the Canadian Foodgrain’s Bank in Saskatchewan has been harvested in the South West.

Grasslands Committee Chair Andrew Gerbrandt says they took off a good crop of Lentils from the Stewart Valley project and Friday harvested the Lone Tree AC Andrew Wheat crop.

Gerbrandt says one of the advantages with the projects is the great sponsorship support noting that this year they expanded their partnership with Pattison Agriculture.

“This is the first year where we had Pattison farming it from start to finish. In past years they’ve always been generous, they’ve always sent combines out and they’ve seeded it a number of times. This is the first year where we’ve had them doing the full seeding, spraying, and harvest.”

Kale Scherger, an Integrated Solutions Specialist says Pattison Agriculture is really happy to be involved in the project, adding it’s such a worthwhile cause for the community, the country, and others.

Pattison Agriculture brought out an S-790 combine with a 40-foot header, tractor and grain cart for the harvest.

Scherger says they (Pattison Agriculture) really enjoyed being a part of the project again.

“From stem to stern we took care of things with the assistance from the Wright’s and everyone else around here. So, we took care of the seeding to start the year, applications in the middle of the season as well and now the harvest.”

Gerbrandt says they had great support from the landowners and all of the sponsors involved in the two projects again this year.

This year in Saskatchewan there are 32 Community Growing Projects the first two projects located in the southwest part of the Province have been harvested.

Rick Block is Saskatchewan’s Regional Representative for the Foodgrains Bank and says growing projects across all of Canada and Saskatchewan are hugely important.

“They provide about 50% of all the funds that come into the Canadian Foodgrain’s Bank which is then applied internationally to help those who are suffering from hunger.”

Donations to the Canadian Foodgrain Bank are matched 4:1 up to a maximum of $25 million dollars per year through the Federal Government and Global Affairs Canada.

Individual farmers can also make grain donations to the Canadian Foodgrain’s Bank at their local terminal.