While some of their fields are still standing in eastern and northwestern Manitoba, harvest is moving along well for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank's growing projects in Manitoba.

Regional coordinator Harold Penner says overall crops were quite good, with some variation across the province. He says winter wheat crops didn't do very well overall, although oats and spring wheat fared better. He says they also harvested quite a bit of soybeans, with varying yield.

"I would say it was mostly in the 30 to 40 bushel range," he says. "There were a few fields that did much better than that, and then there were a few fields that just didn't have enough moisture and did a little less."

With Foodgrains Bank harvest celebrations spread out across the province, Penner says the most exciting part of harvest is getting to see all the volunteers who come out.

"You can imagine we have a farm that's spread out all over Manitoba with all different groups of people... supporting the cause. I think that's the key, that there's so many more people remembering there's hunger in the world and that we can all do a part to ease global hunger," he says.

Penner says the largest group of combines turn up to a harvest event this year was at a field in Killarney with 17 combines on a 140 acre field.