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Bad news for pasta lovers: the effect of climate change on food staples

Tara Giles operates a combine as she harvests wheat on a 160-acre field located south of High River, Alberta, September 28, 2013. Alberta farmers have completed 71 percent of the harvest, the government of the Western Canadian province said on Friday in its most recent crop report as of September 24. The harvest completion by crop: spring wheat 76 percent; durum 84 percent; barley 74 percent; canola 60 percent. REUTERS/Mike Sturk (CANADA - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES FOOD TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E99T0VNI01

Tara Giles operates a combine as she harvests wheat south of High River, Alberta, September 28, 2013. Image: REUTERS/Mike Sturk (CANADA - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES FOOD TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E99T0VNI01

John Letzing
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