suburban development

Home Grown marks one-year anniversary

OFA's campaign champions the protection of agricultural land

The Home Grown campaign underscores one unalienable truth – you cannot farm without farmland, said Peggy Brekveld. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) advocacy and awareness campaign is now one […] Read more


File image: Farmland in Canada.

Producers drive land value market, realtors say

Non-farm investors tend to purchase farm land when crop margins are thin and farmers can’t pay a premium

Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers cause farmland prices to rise but non-farmer investors stop land values from falling too much, say two real estate professionals based in the U.S. Midwest. “Farmers […] Read more


Ontario’s farmland value range. Note that not enough land exchanged hands to create reliable data from the further north regions of the province.

Ontario farmland values continue to jump

Nationally, the 2019 increase tied for the lowest in 10 years

Ontario led Canada’s major agriculture producing provinces in farm land value increases in 2019 according to Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) annual summary of land sales across the country. The Maritime […] Read more