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Why can’t we find mustard on our supermarket shelves anymore? The drought also struck in 2021 in Canada, today the world’s largest producer of mustard seeds…
For several months, France has been deprived of mustard. Some believe it is a strategy of supermarkets to drive up prices, a version disputed by the offending supermarket chains.
Why do we no longer find it on the shelves of our supermarkets when it is a French flagship? How did this specialty become a rare commodity? Because the drought has struck again! But in 2021, and in Canada this time, become the world’s leading producer of mustard seeds.
Gravelbourg in Canada, the mustard capital of the world
In a few decades, Gravelbourg, in the great plains of the Saskatchewan region, has become the mustard capital of the world. Even the one labeled “Dijon mustard” grows here. Why can’t French producers resist?
A report by Julien Cholin, Guillaume Le Goff, Matthieu Rénier, Vincent Zanetto, Laurence Puech and Emma Noël broadcast in “Special Envoy” on September 1, 2022.
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