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A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones

Joelle Faulkner, the CEO of Area One Farms, has been involved in a recent discussion pertaining to climate change in Canada and its clear indicators.  Due to a warming climate, and therefore, longer growing seasons, farmers have found new opportunity that was not at hand in chillier territories. In this piece, we catch a glimpse of the northern edge of the Farm Belt, located in upper Alberta, where farmers are clearing forests to make way for corn and other crops.

“We’re seeing crops grown in places they’ve never grown before.”

See here for the complete article by Jacob Bunge at Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-warming-climate-brings-new-crops-to-frigid-zones-1543168786?mod=hp_lead_pos5

 

 

 

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