Reading Time: 6 minutes If you get most farmers and landowners to talk about it candidly, most will admit to being a bit awestruck by just how far and how fast land prices have risen. Simon Ellis, a young fourth-generation farmer from near Wawanesa, Man., says he and his neighbours have watched over the past decade as land prices […] Read more
Has the price of farmland flatlined?
It may seem like the life has gone out of land markets, but don’t call the morgue just yet
Farm debt ratio in Canada could create an agricultural ‘bust’
Will history repeat itself, with a sell-off fuelled by farm debt?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Are we heading into another bust in agriculture, as happened in the late 1920s and in the 1980s? This is the fear of some farmers, and of some agricultural economists too. George Brinkman, professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, believes Canadian farmers are seriously over-leveraged and that there simply is not enough farm income […] Read more
Editor’s Desk: Who will the winners be as the farm sector evolves?
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you take Canada’s inventory of farm machinery and multiply its working capacity times an average number of days for seeding, spraying or harvesting, how many acres will you top out at? Can the average farm cover 20 per cent more acres than it is actually farming? Or 50 per cent? Certainly it’s more than […] Read more
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