The Central Alberta Foodgrains Committee is back at it again this year, planting 120 acres of canola to help feed hungry people around the world.

Committee member Doug Maas said they are grateful that the pandemic didn't slow down their seeding this year.

Last year, however, they had to work around less than ideal weather which caused a lot of farmers to wait until the fall before they could get their crops off.

“We rely on volunteer farmers, so we didn’t get our crop off until right at the end of October, around Halloween time. The crop came off, it wasn’t too bad. We were able to in the end, send $41,000 to Winnipeg to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank to help people around the world with hunger and nutrition issues.” 

imes of need, which is more important than ever during the global pandemic.

“We’ve got so many problems in Canada with the pandemic and it’s a natural tendency for everyone to look inward and certainly that can be appreciated. But we have to remember that there’s a lot of people around the world that don’t eat every day, or they don’t have proper nutrition, and their governments don’t have the resources to help them like our federal and provincial governments provided funds to help Canadians. So while we’re looking inwardly we also have to remember that there’s people around the world that are in a lot more difficult circumstances than us, so we should also try to keep that outward focus as well, and provide assistance for people in countries like South Sudan, and refugee camps in Lebanon that really need our help right now. Their supply lines are even more fragile and the need is even that much larger there."