Tag: Farmland

Sask. farmland prices grew by 10 per cent in 2017

Source: CBC News, April 23, 2018  West central Sask. saw prices grow by 16.6 per cent The price of Saskatchewan farm land continues to rise faster than the rest of the country. According to Farm Credit Canada, the province’s average land value rose by 10.2 per cent in 2017, the highest in Canada. “The time was… Continue reading Sask. farmland prices grew by 10 per cent in 2017

Growing Alta. cities gobble up prime farmland

Source: Barb Glen, Producer.com, March 15, 2018  Alberta’s cities have an insatiable appetite for farmland, a recent study from the Alberta Land Institute reveals. In the Edmonton-Calgary corridor, urban development had swallowed 4,763 sq. kilometres of land as of 2013, a 52 percent increase from 1984, when the figure was 3,127 sq. km. Most of… Continue reading Growing Alta. cities gobble up prime farmland

Farmland price boom may be ending: FCC

Source: Robert Arnason, The Western Producer, , September 12, 2017  From 2011-16 farmland values in Canada increased, on average, more than 10 percent annually. Those double digit gains could be over, for a while, according to a new FCC report The era of booming farmland values may be coming to an end, says a new report from… Continue reading Farmland price boom may be ending: FCC

Farmland meets forest: Nature Conservancy gets land to protect species at risk

By The Canadian Press, September 21, 2016  PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — The Nature Conservancy of Canada has acquired a property in Saskatchewan it says will provide habitat for up to 10 species at risk. The land is in a biologically diverse area, 70 kilometres west of Prince Albert, where farmland transitions to forest-fringed wetlands and… Continue reading Farmland meets forest: Nature Conservancy gets land to protect species at risk