
A crop duster sprays a crop near Carberry on a sunny Tuesday morning.

John Lepp with Rivers Air Spray, hands water back to his daughter Cassandra Lepp after hydrating and refuelling between crop-spraying runs in his Air Tractor AT-802F at the former CFB Rivers base near Wheatland, Manitoba during a busy day of aerial spraying crops in western Manitoba.

John Lepp, owner of Rivers Air Spray, applies fungicide to a wheat crop in western Manitoba from his Air Tractor AT-802F on a hot July evening. The family-run aerial spray company had a busy summer spraying crops in western Manitoba.

Cassandra Lepp with Rivers Air Spray at the former CFB Rivers base near Wheatland, Manitoba after a busy day of aerial spraying crops in western Manitoba on Saturday evening. Cassandra and her sister Stefanie run the ground logistics for the family-owned aerial spaying company while their dad John flies the plane and does the spraying.

John Lepp with Rivers Air Spray climbs out of his Air Tractor AT-802F at the former CFB Rivers base near Wheatland, Manitoba after a long hot day of spraying crops in western Manitoba in July.

After a long day of running logistics for Rivers Air Spray, farmer Cassandra Lepp slalom skis with family on a small lake next to a farm near Rivers, Manitoba.

The spray from a pivot irrigation creates a rainbow in a potato crop northeast of Carberry, Manitoba.

Gordon Janzen says a prayer before lunch at the annual Crossborders Community Growing Project in a field near Kola, Manitoba on Friday. After a barbecue lunch volunteers began combining 250 acres of wheat. At least 15 combines and multiple grain carts and trucks were used in the harvest. The proceeds from the wheat will benefit the Canadian Foodgrains Bank which provides food assistance in areas in need around the world.

Emma Reimer watches wheat being loaded into a truck at the annual Crossborders Community Growing Project in a field near Kola, Manitoba on Friday. After a barbecue lunch volunteers began combining 250 acres of wheat. At least 15 combines and multiple grain carts and trucks were used in the harvest. The proceeds from the wheat will benefit the Canadian Foodgrains Bank which provides food assistance in areas in need around the world. Volunteers take part in every step of growing the crop, from seeding, to spraying to harvest.

A tattered Canadian flag flies from the auger spout on a combine during canola harvest at Deerboine Colony.

Wheat is emptied from a combine into a grain cart during harvest at Deerboine Colony.

Ryan Wurtz talks over the radio while combining canola during harvest at Deerboine Colony.

Arthur Wurtz leaves his combine for the evening after finishing harvesting a field of wheat south of Rivers in southwestern Manitoba with other members of the Deerboine Hutterite Colony in late August.

The moon rises after sunset as combines harvest canola at Deerboine Colony on a warm and windy Friday evening in early September.

A combine header pulls in and chews up wheat during a harvest north of Brandon, Manitoba.

A combine spits out chaff while harvesting wheat in the late day sun in August at Deerboine Colony.

Young people from Deerboine Colony load straw bales from a freshly harvested field of wheat onto a flatbed truck.

Lukas Hofer walks on his hands atop a flatbed during a pause while loading straw bales with other young people from Deerboine Colony.

Workers at E & B Farms northeast of Carberry sort debris from freshly harvested potatoes moving along a conveyor belt from a truck to a storage cellar.

Dust from harvest and potato trucks along the grid roads near Harte, Manitoba blanket the prairies in a haze of dust as a pair of trains pass each other at sunset in late September.

Cassandra Lepp talks over the radio while combining barley north of Rivers along with her sister Stefanie in a nearby combine.

John Lepp relaxes after eating dinner made by his wife Jacqui while sitting in the field during a brief pause in harvest on an early September evening. John spent the evening driving the grain truck while his daughters Cassandra and Stefanie combined barley and his wife Jacqui kept them fed. The family seeded 2100 acres of land this year.

Cassandra Lepp eats dinner made by her mom Jacqui while sitting in a field north of Rivers, Manitoba with her dog Piper during a brief pause in harvest for supper on an early September evening.

Cassandra Lepp combines barley at sunset in a field north of Rivers, Manitoba during harvest on an early September evening.

Stefanie Lepp pauses while shutting down after an evening of combining barley alongside her sister Cassandra north of Rivers, Manitoba in early September.

Cassandra Lepp holds her dog Piper while visiting in the field with her sister Stefanie and dad John after finishing combining barley on an early September evening as the almost full moon rises. The family seeded 2100 acres of land this year.

Women sort debris from potatoes by flashlight at dusk during harvest at Acadia Colony.

Potato harvest - Acadia Hutterite Colony.

Grain trucks pull into the Richardson Pioneer terminal in Kemnay, Manitoba in early October to load grains.

David van den Ham with van den Ham Farms north of Brandon loads wheat from one of his bins into a grain truck to take to the Richardson Pioneer terminal in Kemnay in early October. Van den Ham harvested the wheat approximately one month earlier.

Soybeans are unloaded from the back of a grain truck at the Richardson Pioneer terminal in Kemnay, Manitoba.

Location Assistant Brett King closes hatches on a grain car filled with wheat moments earlier at the Richardson Pioneer terminal in Kemnay, Manitoba.