In episode 59 of the Truth About Ag podcast, Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout take a timely look at the decisions, risks, and structural pressure building across Canadian agriculture. They discuss the real-time decisions farmers are facing around seeding, canola acres, crop insurance, market risk, and the cost of pushing through difficult conditions. The episode... Read More
Category: Land prices
Higher interest rates, tighter margins, and questions around land values have many farmers wondering if another 1980s-style farm crisis could be ahead. In this episode of Mind Your Farm Business, host Shaun Haney is joined by Evan Shout of Farmer Coach and Maverick Ag to compare today’s farm financial picture to the conditions leading into... Read More
By Elisabeta Lika In the rural municipality of Rosser, just outside Winnipeg, a 94,000 square-foot canola and pea processing facility is being converted into a Bell Canada AI data centre. The building was completed in 2021. Merit Functional Foods, which built the facility with more than $100 million in federal financing went into receivership in... Read More
00:00 - Coming up 1:29 - Meet Dean Orr, farmer and land use researcher 3:22 - What Ontario is proposing for limiting foreign land ownership 6:57 - Land use vs land ownership 9:19 - The potential of the Clay Belt 13:01 - The value of land for retiring farmers 17:08 - The Alto rail line... Read More
When news breaks of a large or very large farm entering creditor protection, it's human nature for many to tsk-tsk and say I told you so. Whatever your thoughts on the most recent mega-farm facing financial trouble, the fallout for communities where mega-farms operate can be wide-spread, from landowners losing out on rent payments, to... Read More
Saskatchewan has some of the toughest rules on the books about who can and can't own farmland in the province. Even so, concerns around who owns Saskatchewan farmland and how land purchases are financed continue to surface across the province, prompting a closer look from industry and government alike. Bill Prybylski, president of the Agricultural... Read More
The Government of Ontario has introduced legislation to support the expansion of agricultural production in the Clay Belt region of northern Ontario and implement measures to streamline red tape in the agri-food industry. Within the overarching changes is a plan to introduce a Farmland Security Act to restrict foreign acquisition of provincial farmland. If passed,... Read More
By Margaret Zafiriou This past year has been one for the books – such a lot has changed from a year ago. These dramatic changes have had repercussions for Ontario consumers, the economy, and for the province’s agriculture and agri-food sector. Record high population growth, lack of housing affordability and food security concerns, on top... Read More
Farmers have spoken loudly in a RealAgristudies survey on land ownership restrictions —and 75% agree that there should be stronger limits on who can own farmland. Farmland has been a high-returning asset for farmers, individuals, families, or investment funds over the past couple of decades. While price appreciation has helped farmers' balance sheets by increasing... Read More
This week, Farm Credit Canada released its farmland report for 2025 numbers. The report suggests that land values maintained the same rate of growth over 2024, at 9.3%, but that there are significant regional differences (i.e. B.C. actually had a price contraction and Ontario's price growth barely matches inflation). The farmland report looks at 2025... Read More