The Berry Trump Never Tariffed Just Got Wiped Out

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Someone scatters a handful of small, intensely flavored "wild" blueberries onto their oatmeal this morning. There's a real chance that handful traveled down from Quebec or New Brunswick, frozen within a day of being raked off a low bush growing in soil that hasn't been plowed in ten thousand years. Canada supplies close to half of America's wild blueberry market — the only country besides the US that grows this specific plant at any real scale, native to a narrow strip of northeastern forest that evolved after the last ice age. Quebec alone accounts for close to half of Canada's production; the fruit is so tied to the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region that locals are nicknamed after the berry itself. Blueberries are now Canada's single largest fruit export. In 2025, one of the worst droughts in the industry's history cut Atlantic Canada's yield by roughly 70% — New Brunswick's crop collapsed from a typical 68 million pounds to just 20 million. Because this is a wild, unirrigated crop gr

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