It was a good year all around for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, specifically in Manitoba.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is entering 2018 after a successful 2017. The Foodgrains "farm" covered almost 16,000 acres of land and included crops like wheat, barley, corn, soybeans, canola and other grains.

In Manitoba, a perfect summer led to some incredible harvests, especially for the cereal crops. One local farmer had a harvest of wheat 33% higher then what he would typically consider good.

"Manitoba has always played an important role [in the Foodgrains Bank]," said Harold Penner, regional representative for the Foodgrains Bank.

One of the more exciting events of the year happened when 26 combines came to harvest a field in Killarney, while more than 200 people came to watch and support them.

A major project to reach the urban population has been Grow Hope, a Foodgrains Bank initiative. People can purchase a piece of land and that money goes towards the seeds and the harvest, as well as the care, of that particular crop. The crop is donated to Foodgrains at the end of the year.

"The Grow Hope project has given us the opportunity to involve urban Canadians," Penner said.

Despite the good year in Canada, Penner warns us that the needs have really increased.

"It has been a year of a lot of humanitarian crisis in this world," Penner pointed out.

The Foodgrains Bank says 65,000,000 people have been displaced from homes around the world and many are needing food.