From Global News.

When farmer Simon Ellis first drove his combine into this year’s crop, he expected "catastrophic failure," after a season of flooding followed by a long drought. But instead was "pleasantly surprised" to find plump seeds of wheat, oats and soybeans poured into his combine.

Across much of western Canada, farmers like Ellis have been turning out strikingly better crops despite hotter and drier conditions — far above what farmers in the region could have expected in better conditions years ago, according to Canadian government data, thanks in part to the widespread embrace of climate adaptation strategies.

"The work that some of the breeders have done over the last 20 years to develop some of these new varieties that are just unbelievable, how good they are, that we can pull off yields twice what we used to with half as much rain. It’s quite shocking how good they’ve got, and it’s made it fun to grow," Manitoba farmer Scott Mowbray said.

While greater yields in Canada and elsewhere are depressing global prices for grains, they are keeping many farmers in business.

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