A world record attempt next year in Manitoba will see the most-ever antique threshing machines harvesting a crop of wheat.

The Harvesting Hope event will attempt to break the current record of 111 machines threshing at once, while raising money for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

Amanda Thorsteinsson of the Foodgrains Bank says part of the proceeds from the event will go to help feed the hungry in places like South Sudan, where war has forced people from their homes.

"A lot of the people are farmers and they haven't been able to plant their crops, for example, and so they're really suffering and they're really going hungry. So one of the ways the Foodgrains Bank is responding, is by providing emergency monthly food rations," she says.

Part of the proceeds will also go toward the Manitoba Agricultural Museum.

Ayn Wilcox's grandfather was one of the founding members of the museum, and she's been a lifelong volunteer. As the museum's spokesperson for the event, she says money from the record-breaking fundraiser will also help continue to preserve Manitoba's heritage and agricultural history.

"I just think it's really important for people to know what the history is, where it all began, and to recognize the importance of that, and the place it is has particularly in Manitoba," she says.

At the moment she says they don't have any specific projects in mind for the funding, but it will go toward general museum work, including a hands-on program that shows schoolkids how vintage farm equipment works in order to understand where their food comes from.