{"id":949427,"date":"2026-10-28T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949427\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:38:18","slug":"super-el-nino-driving-higher-commodity-prices-says-food-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949427\/","title":{"rendered":"Super El Ni\u00f1o Driving Higher Commodity Prices says Food Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/grocery-store-fruit-produce-lemon-pineapple.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Super El Ni\u00f1o Driving Higher Commodity Prices says Food Analyst\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A Super El Ni\u00f1o is wreaking havoc with the weather \u2013 particularly in Asia and on the west coast of North and Central America \u2013 and that\u2019s having a dramatic impact on commodities grown in warmer climes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sylvain-charlebois-dalhousie-university.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-203208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sylvain-charlebois-dalhousie-university.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Sylvain Charlebois)<\/p>\n<p>Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie\u2019s Food Analytics Lab says despite tariffs, transportation costs and even EU regulations surrounding deforestation, the greatest impact on prices is coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/services\/weather-general-tools-resources\/el-nino.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWheat is up almost 50 per cent, rice is up 30 per cent, sugar is also more expensive. That\u2019s the real factor impacting prices right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/noaa-pacific-ocean-activity-sept-22-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311243\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/noaa-pacific-ocean-activity-sept-22-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-311243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm activity in the Pacific due to El Ni\u00f1o as seen from satellite (NOAA)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/sylvain-charlebois--76048645\" data-resource=\"episode_id=76048645\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"200px\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"false\" data-playlist-continuous=\"false\" data-chapters-image=\"true\" data-episode-image-position=\"right\" data-hide-logo=\"false\" data-hide-likes=\"false\" data-hide-comments=\"false\" data-hide-sharing=\"false\" data-hide-download=\"true\" data-title=\"Sylvain Charlebois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to \u201cSylvain Charlebois\u201d on Spreaker.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) A Super El Ni\u00f1o is wreaking havoc with the weather \u2013 particularly in Asia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-949427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}