A remote Canadian province luxuriates in the global supply crunch
Saskatchewan is enjoying wild growth in the wake of war in Europe
Gerrid gust’s great-grandfather was from near Dubno, a town that is now in western Ukraine. He settled between the two biggest towns in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon and Regina, on a plot of 160 acres which he bought for C$10. The farm is now a patchwork of properties 100 times the size which Mr Gust runs with his father and brother. Each year they harvest wheat, lentils and rapeseed.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Pots of pink gold”
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