Did you know that Canada is the world's sixth-largest producer and one of the largest exporters of wheat? About half of all Canada's wheat is grown inSaskatchewan, followed byAlbertaandManitoba.

"This year the weather smiled on us, and we made a crop," says a wheat farmer near Minnedosa in Manitoba. "But just as we made a crop, the economic situation changed." This quotation brings to mind the old saying, "If you are a farmer, the weather is always bad." In what sense might this saying be true? If the Canadian farmer made a bumper crop this year and there is a shortage of wheat in the United States due to a drought, what are his options? What is your opinion if you learned that the U.S. was employing trade protectionism against Canada's wheat and is importing from France instead.