I just read this about the situation in Canada:
“There’s a lot of crop that’s going backwards right now,” said Lewis, who grows canola, cereal grains and pulses at his farm in Gray, Sask. “In many cases, it’s beyond the point of no return. There’ll be acres in Western Canada that will have zero crop come off, zero yield.”
His best guess, at this point, is that crop yields in Saskatchewan will fall by 25 per cent compared to last year. If the plus-30-degree heat continues as forecast, those losses might be as bad as 50 per cent.
“That’s billions of dollars of revenue,” he said.
Sustained record-breaking heat, droughts and wildfires across the Prairies and British Columbia this month are wreaking havoc on food production in Canada, with farmers reporting stunted crops, cherries cooking on trees and 80-per-cent mortality rates at some commercial shellfish operations.
Burnt pastures have left ranchers with little for their cattle to graze, forcing them to dip into winter feed stocks and consider shrinking their herd by sending cattle, even prized breeding cows, to slaughter."
