By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday July 14, 2021

Jul 14, 2021 | 10:00 AM

MELFORT, Sask. — Hot and dry conditions continue across the prairies resulting in reduced supplies and higher prices for spring wheat.

In the latest Sask Wheat market outlook prepared by Mercantile Consulting Ventures, the expanding drought, poor conditions, and absence of rain in the forecast has created optimism for wheat markets.

Even with an abundance of global wheat production, good quality wheat will be in short supply this year.

The report also said the United States Department of Agriculture forecasted lower wheat exports in 2021/22 in both Canada and U.S. with reduced supplies and higher prices. As a result, importers will be shifting their attention to Australia in search of additional supplies of high-quality wheat.

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A program that addresses pandemic-related food security pressures will be accepting applications again.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said funding for the Local Food Infrastructure Fund program will be topped up by $10 million.

Eligible project impacts must be directly related to addressing food insecurity and increasing the accessibility of healthy, nutritious and local foods within the community.

Community gardens and kitchens, refrigerated trucks and storage units for donated food, greenhouses in remote and northern communities are just some of the projects that have received funding.

Applications are now open.

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Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) are supporting Tree Canada’s National Greening Program (NGP).

DFC will provide $100,000 to support the planting of 25,000 trees in various locations throughout Canada.

DFC said producing one litre of milk in Canada emits less than half the greenhouse gas emissions than the global average with the industry’s carbon footprint decreased by 23 per cent from 1990 to 2016 alone, according to data from Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The NGP is supported in part by the federal government’s Two Billion Trees Program.

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alice.mcfarlane@pattisonmedia.com

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