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Farmers could benefit from climate change

May
5, 2011 – A research paper says Canadian farmers could reap better prices for
their crops due to climate change.

May
5, 2011 – A research paper says Canadian farmers could reap better prices for
their crops due to climate change.

The
paper printed in the journal Science says rising temperatures are
already starting to slow the growth rate of crop yields almost everywhere in
the world.

Canada
and the United States are among the very few places where harvests have been
unaffected by climate change.

That
means Canadian farmers will have a greater share of global crop production.

And
it means rising demand will also fetch them a higher price for their harvests.

The
study, out of California’s Stanford University, estimates that climate change
will boost average prices of wheat, corn, soybeans and rice by more than six
per cent.