A crop planted by Hermidale students has yielded enough wheat to make 290,000 loaves of bread, and raise $50,000 for school excursions.
abc.net.au/news/nsw-hermidale-public-school-wheat-crop-sale-to-fund-excursions/101688622When the students at Hermidale Public School in western New South Wales planted 85 hectares of wheat at the beginning of the year, harvest seemed a lifetime away.It yielded about 170 tonnes of wheat, enough to make 290,000 loaves of breadThe children dreamed of raising enough money to fund an excursion to the beach, but never thought they'd make enough money to send the whole school around the country.
The town had endured an anxious few weeks as flooding has engulfed much of western NSW, but Hermidale was spared the worst and this week the headers rolled out for the harvest. "As soon as we heard the headers rumbling down the road the kids raced out of the classroom," Ms Coddington said.The students swapped their uniforms for work shirts and boots to tend to the wheat crop."We didn't get bogged once, which was really great," local farmer and parent Darren Mudford said.
"It was so exciting to get to come down and see the headers in the paddock and learn how they work and then watch our grain go off in the trucks," Year 6 student Ruby Mudford said. The students were then able to visit the grain depot to see their grain being tested, graded and weighed.
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