There is snow on the soya fields at the Belfontaine Holstein farm.
A combination of dry weather in Canada's prairies and flooding on the Pacific coast has led to shortages of fries and mustard.
In Japan, McDonald's has had to ration fries because of the British Columbia floods, while mustard producers in France are expecting steep price increases because of the dry spell in Canada.
"This year has been marked by extreme climate change weather events, and when we look back at the state of the agriculture sector in 2021, we can say that," Bibeau said.
She told livestock farmers and ranchers who've struggled to secure enough hay to feed their animals as pastures dried up that there was the worst drought in 60 years in Western Canada and the devastating atmospheric rivers in British Columbia.
Farmers in Canada produced more corn but less wheat, canola, barley, soybeans and oats in the year 2021, compared with 2020.
The largest year-over-year decrease on record, falling to levels not seen in more than a decade, was caused by the dry conditions in Western Canada.
There's a lot of angst in the farming community according to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Some farmers have lost everything and others are considering quitting.
In November of 2021, pumpkins will float in the water at a farm in the east of the province after a record amount of rain.
The top 10 food-related stories are published by the lab. Climate disasters in Western Canada were second this year.
Charlebois told Agence France-Presse that "climate change has had a strong impact on agricultural production and supply chains."
He said that the Canadian record high temperature of 48.6 degrees Celsius in the town of Lytton in British Columbia was an example of the extreme weather this year. It was destroyed by fire.
Canada's western supply links are vulnerable to flooding and not resilient enough to climate change, according to Charlebois.
Shipping was disrupted by heavy rains.
Mustard seed production in the prairies was halved this year due to the lack of rain.
The average price is expected to double to a record $1,700 (1,510 euros) per tonne, according to a Canadian agriculture ministry report.
The tracks that carry trains to and from the coast port of Vancouver were damaged in November. Locomotives are pulling three kilometers of cars behind them to clear a shipping queue.
The majority of mustard manufacturers in France are located in the French region of Burgundy, but Canadian farmers are the main supplier.
The analyst noted that the year in Western Canada was particularly brutal, but that it was not uncommon for the area to experience a few years of dry weather.
Currie thinks we're not done with these types of weather situations. We're going to see them more frequently.
Canadian potato producers harvest 123,000,000 hundredweight of potatoes, up 18 percent from the prior year, and it was a banner year.
The United Potato Growers of Canada said that most provinces had good harvest conditions.
The port of Vancouver in Canada was cut off from the rest of the country in November due to record rains in British Columbia.
There were disruptions to exports from Canada's largest port.
A container ship sits docked at the Port of Vancouver in November of 2021. There was a huge back up when the road and rail links to the port were destroyed.
McDonalds restaurants in Japan will only sell small-sized French fries for a week from Friday to avoid running out.
There are delays in the supply of potatoes due to the global supply chain crunch caused by the coronaviruses.
The port moved a record amount of grain and cargo by the middle of the year to meet strong demand overseas.
A large amount of work was done in November.
The port said disruptions to rail operations had decreased significantly and shipping volumes had "stabilized."
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