Que Pasa Foods: Patricia Mohr

Joe Zallen Dept: "We're lucky we locked in with one supplier," said Joe Zallen, general manager at Que Pasa Foods in Richmond, which uses corn from the United States in many of its organic products. The type of corn Que Pasa uses to make its products isn't grown in Canada, Zallen said, according to Vancouver Sun. Both corn and soybeans reached new all-time record highs Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade, with corn higher than $8.18 US per bushel and soybeans higher than $17.54 US per bushel, said Patricia Mohr, commodity market specialist with Scotiabank and que Pasa Foods in Richmond is thanking their lucky stars they locked in their corn supply with a farmer in Texas - Texas is already so dry, the farmer regularly irrigates his fields, so they're not affected by a drought that is threatening most of the U.S. corn and soybean crops this summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday that 88 per cent of U.S. corn and 87 per cent of U.S. soybeans are grown in drought-stricken areas that don't have the infrastructure required to irrigate the crops. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.