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Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Russia and Canada have the greatest "frontier area" suitable for agricultural expansion, in part thanks to thawing permafrost.

By Rod Nickel, Reuters, Kelsey Johnson, Reuters March 24, 2020
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA — After failing to grow wheat in Canada’s subarctic Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017.

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