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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Sask. eyes tougher rules on investor farm buys

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatoon | Reuters — Saskatchewan is likely to tighten what are already some of North America’s strictest rules for purchasing farmland, as it looks to fend off big money managers hungry for what they see as a winning investment. The province, whose fertile plains grow more wheat than Argentina, has become the latest front in […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Foreign ‘land grabs’ seeing redrawing global farmland ownership map

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — A handful of wealthy countries are responsible for most international farmland acquisitions — what some critics term “land grabs” — in a trend that is redrawing the global map of land ownership, a new study has found. China, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Singapore and a small group of other […] Read more
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Features, Succession strategy

Inheriting the family farm as a gift

Succession in Agriculture: High land prices are driving innovation in how to distribute your land

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Farming without some startup help from your family can definitely mean an uphill climb. But getting the gift of a farm inheritance isn’t always such a blessing either. Many farmers will tell you it would have been impossible for them to get started in the business if it hadn’t been for a “hometown discount” from […] Read more
Production

Rutting season

There aren't any great options to fix your rutted fields. But here are the best - and the worst

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet. There’s pretty much never a Goldilocks moment for farming anywhere on the planet, and when those rare moments do emerge, they never last. It makes for challenging times for growers who have to balance the immediate needs of the operation, such as spraying crop protection products, or […] Read more

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