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Struggle to find more farmers.
Some farmers went off to fight in the war overseas instead of staying back and farming. This made a bit of a short in farmers witch made the farmers that stayed back have to produce even more because the demand for food was high and there weren't the same amount of farmers as before. -
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Mass production
Over the course of the war farmers of Canada needed to produce a ton of more food. Canada exported nearly 3 billion pound's over the course of the second world war. This was a big change for farmers because they weren't use to making this much food. The government asked some farmers to start growing different crops at some points in the war. ". The number of cattle marketed to be killed for food almost doubled by the end of the war as well as the amount of cheddar cheese being produced.