A head of wheat is silhouetted by the sun in a wheat crop near Cremona, Alta. Canada is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat.
Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts.A head of wheat is silhouetted by the sun in a wheat crop near Cremona, Alta. Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada's food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts.
In a survey for the report, respondents from the industry as well as members of government identified extreme weather as one of the top risks to the agricultural sector. Those practices can't protect crops from the most extreme weather, he said, but they do help in other years. Supply chains are generally designed to keep the lowest cost in mind, meaning the risk of disruption is higher, he said — there might be one large factory instead of multiple smaller ones, for example, or reliance on a single source for an important input.Fires in Western Canada are the most recent example of weather events disrupting the transportation of commodities.
"Yes, you can put stuff on trucks, but there's never enough truck capacity in the country to make up for rail. So things will be delayed and it'll get more expensive," he said.
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