http://albertaventure.com/2013/06/albertas-farmers-adapt-to-climate-change/
“It’s jokingly been said by some people that we’ll eventually become the grape producers of America.”
The Good:
One of the ways this is measured is through the boundary for corn heat units, which measures where corn can be grown in the province. The northern boundary for these units has moved up a couple hundred kilometres since the 1910s, and it’s advanced about 50 kilometres since the 1940s.
The Bad:
His county was flooded four years ago, but he didn’t get any rain at all in July or August of 2012. “You can go from one wet year to extremely dry with no gradual buildup. Basically you just get hit with it and you have to survive it,” he says. “Nothing is consistent anymore. You think you have things figured out and then it throws a loop at you to say to you, ‘No, you don’t.’
Follow The Money:
agriculture-oriented investment funds have taken an increased interest in Canadian farmland?