Community came out to the Boissevain-Morton-Whitewater Foodgrains Harvest this past Monday near Fairfax to share the noon lunch and work together to clear off the 300-acre field of wheat.

It was touch and go whether the combines could actually harvest the field as the moisture level was still too high at lunch time. But shortly after 1:30 BMW committee member Ben Martens got the call that the grain sample was dry enough and they were a go.

"It certainly was good to see the grain come off the field like that when we thought maybe it wouldn't even work on that day because it was hardly mature enough, but in the end it went through and we had a wonderful yield, so we were very thankful for that," shares Martens.

The crop yielded an average of 81 bu/acre which was one of the highest yields

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