The Manitoba Agricultural Museum and Canadian Foodgrains Bank teamed up with over 600 volunteers from 100 Canadian communities to attempt a record-breaking harvest this week, at Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry.
Over two years of planning culminated into 139 (of 148) threshing machines harvesting wheat for 15 minutes at the Museum on Sunday. All combined, the machines had 6100 horsepower of engine capacity, and, threshing at roughly 17000 bushels per hour, successfully harvested 30,000 sheaves of winter wheat.
“This was truly a celebration of our agricultural heritage,” said Elliot Sims, co-chair of the event. “We’re all very happy to have succeeded, and the feedback we’re getting is great. Everyone seems to have really enjoyed themselves.”
The Harvesting Hope planning committee hopes to hear from Guinness World Records by early September. Until then, the record-break is unofficial.
Money raised from the event will be split between the Museum and Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
The official record for most threshing machines operating simultaneously (at least for now) is 111, and was achieved at Festival de la Curd in St-Albert, Ontario on August 15, 2015.
148 machines attempted/139 succeeded to run for 15 minutes. Stay tuned for an official word from the judges at @GWR. pic.twitter.com/EsagI9dvQN
— Harvesting Hope (@HarvestHope2016) August 1, 2016
Bird’s eye view of the threshers during the record-breaking attempt… And this is only half of them! #mtrs16 pic.twitter.com/KyT6VUbJxP
— Harvesting Hope (@HarvestHope2016) July 31, 2016
Pitched sheaves yesterday for the first time @HarvestHope2016. Great time setting a world record! @GWR pic.twitter.com/y7WFDIXU2t
— Wade Bartkiw (@elkridgefarms) August 2, 2016
Had a great afternoon in Austin with @HarvestHope2016 pic.twitter.com/GrlIo2dC9s
— Garett Veldman (@carmanfarmer) August 1, 2016
Record breaking thrash!! @HarvestHope2016 @Foodgrains @AgMoreThanEver pic.twitter.com/E6UrJGWjod
— Dorian Rourke (@dorianrourke) August 1, 2016
#mtrs16 @HarvestHope2016 Beamish crew. Our separator ran for 55 minutes with sheaves going in. pic.twitter.com/AjTy3tDPO9
— Mike Beamish (@mbeamish) July 31, 2016
What an experience! Times this by 146 and you get our record-breaking attempt today #mtrs16 pic.twitter.com/ae60zFj3vs
— Harvesting Hope (@HarvestHope2016) July 31, 2016
What an amazing event today. Thank you to all the @HarvestHope2016 volunteers who worked so hard to pull it off! pic.twitter.com/LxFzGmOuBQ
— Foodgrains Bank (@Foodgrains) July 31, 2016
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