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Manitoba land increased by five per cent in 2017, and 8.1 per cent in 2016.

Prairie farmland values increase in 2018

Lower-valued land sees an increase in demand, indicating land purchases based on proximity

By Marlo Glass May 13, 2019

Farmland values across Canada increased by an average of 6.6 per cent in 2018, according to a recently published report by Farm Credit Canada (FCC). Average farmland values increased across all Prairie provinces. Saskatchewan and Alberta saw the highest average increase, both at 7.4 per cent, while Manitoba was below the national average at 3.7

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Farmland goes ‘loonie’

By Gord Gilmour April 26, 2018

Farm Credit Canada’s most recent survey of farmland value in Canada landed this week, with a gentle thud. Thud because it showed surprisingly durable gains in farmland values, despite the lower crop values of the past several years, which economic theory at least initially suggests should not be the case. J.P. Gervais, FCC’s chief agricultural

Local news, News, Other

FCC breaks down 2017 Manitoba farmland values by region

The Parkland region saw the biggest average percentage increase, while Central Plains-Pembina Valley was unchanged from 2016

By Allan Dawson April 26, 2018

While Manitoba farmland values rose five per cent in 2017, there were regional differences, says the 2017 FCC Farmland Values Report released April 23. “In general, Manitoba saw higher-priced land values remaining relatively stable, while low- to mid-priced land values recorded increases,” the report says. The biggest percentage increase was in the Parkland region at

News, Other

Rising farmland prices puts agriculture at risk

That’s what the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry says in a recent report

By Allan Dawson April 26, 2018

Higher farmland prices make it harder for young farmers to get into farming and or expand, but they have options, says J.P. Gervais, Farm Credit Canada’s vice-president and chief agricultural economist. “I do believe now there are more options for young producers in terms of getting involved in different supply chains that don’t necessarily require

Southern Ontario’s farmland prices have jumped, despite stagnant crop prices. (John Greig photo)

Crops, Markets

Southern Ontario median farmland price jumps in 2017

By GFM Network News, John Greig February 22, 2018

The threat of interest rate increases hasn’t dampened the prices southern Ontario farmers are paying for land. The annual Valco study of land values showed an increase in value of 9.76 per cent for farmland sold in 2017 over 2016. This increase is the largest since 2013. The median price for land in the surveyed

Local news

Most Canadian farmers saw higher farmland values

Prince Edward Island saw the largest annual increase in the country

By Allan Dawson April 13, 2017

Provincial farmland values, on average, were all up in 2016, except for Newfoundland-Labrador, where there was insufficient data. Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) saw the largest jump at 13.4 per cent. “The main reason for the increases was farming enterprises wanting to gain additional acres to supplement crop rotation cycles and for additional feed production,” Farm

News

Increase in Manitoba farmland values slowing, says FCC

The biggest driver is crop receipts and unlike in the U.S. they are projected to be positive in Canada in 2016

By Allan Dawson April 13, 2017

Average farmland values continued to appreciate in 2016, but by less than the increase a year earlier. That trend was seen both in Manitoba, and across Canada as a whole, with both easily outpacing the gain one could expect from holding a bank GIC, according to Farm Credit Canada. Land prices here, which have been

News & Opinion, Opinion

Farmland declines will continue

By Andrew Swenson September 14, 2016

Three years ago I stated, “No one knows the future, but there is a good possibility that we have seen the last of the rising land-value reports for a while.” This was a strong statement, considering it was made a few weeks after an Aug. 2, 2013, U.S. Department of Agriculture report confirmed what surveys

Crops

Six numbers in agriculture to make you stop and think

It isn’t as quiet as you might think on the home front. Yes, today’s farms seem stable, but the next evolutionary wave is gaining energy

By Maggie Van Camp March 18, 2016

In 2009, total Canadian net farm income was $2.8 billion. Four years later, it was $10 billion more, with Statistics Canada’s saying a $5.6-billion rise in the total value of farm-owned inventories from the year before accounted for almost all of the increase in total net income in 2013 That inventory increase came from a

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

Tag Archives farmland prices

Prairie farmland values increase in 2018

Editorial: Farmland goes ‘loonie’

FCC breaks down 2017 Manitoba farmland values by region

Rising farmland prices puts agriculture at risk

Southern Ontario median farmland price jumps in 2017

Most Canadian farmers saw higher farmland values

Increase in Manitoba farmland values slowing, says FCC

Farmland declines will continue

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