The detainees arrived at Heart Mtn. in the Fall of 1942, too late to get involved with agricultural projects. As soon as possible the following Spring, though, the detainees began work on completing the Shoshone Irrigation Project of the Buffalo Bill Dam, so to make the acreage around the camp irrigated. Much of this work included building and waterproofing 6,000 feet of the canal in the Heart Mtn. section. Thanks to the efforts of the detainees, water ran down the Heart Mtn. section of the Shoshone project and into the contoured irrigation system built by the detainees. They planted a TOTAL of 2,762 ACRES of CROPS and HARVESTED 2,395 ACRES. They produced green beans, peas, carrots, napa, spinach, beets popcorn, sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage, winter squash, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, garlic, cucumbers, daikon, head lettuce, onions, Swiss chard, watermelon, cantaloupes, eggplant, peppers, takana, mizuna, barley, and wheat. The farm superintendent estimated the value of the crops for the 2 years to be $309,585. The agricultural department also had hog and poultry projects which produced pork, poultry meat, and eggs for consumption at the camp. When harvest time came, though, many of the men who had built the irrigation system were unavailable when they took work away from the camp to help harvest crops for labor-starved farmers in Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, and Colorado. Camp crops were saved, though, thanks to the harvesting work by detainee women and high school students. The detainees, who had come to this land because it was dubbed useless by the government, left it irrigated and ready for the post-war homesteaders, who were Caucasian veterans. War Relocation Authority: Food Production in Centers. Production programs allow for shipment from center to center; for example, vegetables produced in the winter at Arizona centers are shipped to centers in Idaho and Wyoming, which in exchange will ship summer-produced foods to Arizona centers.