Canada

Food and water are the final profit frontier.

The drought has screwed a lot of things. Expect meat prices to skyrocket next year. Hay crops have been really bad I have been hearing 50% and lower for hay yeilds. I imagine other crops are similar, I know the wheat was insanely short this year.

even the article admits they’re not even trying to produce as much durum wheat as they have been in the past

Who is supposed to try? Durum is quite picky about climate. Western Canada has the right climate, at least historically, but yields have plummeted (perhaps because the climate is changing). That's how we got into this situation.

Our whole agricultural system is broken.

Or perhaps it is the consumer demand is broken? As the article notes, you can use softer wheats in durum's place. It's doesn't quite give the same texture, but it's still pasta at the end of the day. Softer wheats are far less picky about climate, and have been crashing in price of late. The traditional hard and soft wheats are down in price by ~25% in just the last month!

Ya I usually only eat seeded watermelon because it actually has flavor,but this year they've tasted like seedless watermelon,aka flavorless.

On top of that, corn’s been pretty expensive lately too

Corn was expensive when it was looking like the drought in the corn belt was going to destroy the crop, but the rains came at the right time and the price came tumbling down after. Local cash bids were up to $9.80 just last month. Now we're looking at $6.38. That's a huge drop. The Chicago price isn't even $5 anymore.

due to the US redirecting so much of it into biofuel.

Not really. Biofuels shy away pretty quickly when the price goes up. There isn't much inelasticity there like there is among food buyers. Corn has been driven by that derecho a couple years back wiping out a lot the crop, coupled with European fertilizer plant shutdowns just before Russia invaded Ukraine – which also impacted access to Russian fertilizer, along with those drought fears this year.

That said, given the rest of the comment, I get the feeling that you are actually talking about sweet corn rather than corn? Sweet corn is not directed to biofuel. It's more like $30 per bushel instead of $5. Biofuel flat out couldn't afford it, even if it wanted.

I dunno where everyone is, but potatoes grow like a weed in pacific northwestern climates. Plant them one year and you will get potatoes for years and years afterwards. And they are good too, you can get big ones. Just throw some water on them occasionally.

Apparently, raspberry bushes also grow like weeds, even in 3b regions (Montana, in this case)

Last i bought was $1.71 CAD / kg
(made in Canada www.italpasta.com )

@anotherlemmyuser 's is $1.06 us$ / 750g so ... $1.41 us$ / kg ... , so ... $1.90 CAD / kg

The price has I've got in Canada, is about 10% lower than that one in Malaysia.