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Canada’s Record Rains Cut Wheat Acreage to Three-Year Low

Canada’s Record Rains Cut Wheat Acreage to Three-Year Low

Source: Bloomberg, By Jen Skerritt  Jul 23, 2014 9:08 AM PT  For the first time in 47 years of farming, Giles Norek got 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain within 48 hours on his Saskatchewan crops. Half of his 12,000 wheat acres were flooded by the late-June deluge, and the plants that weren’t killed are struggling […]