Farm Credit Canada’s recently released annual report on national farmland values shows that Ontario prices rose 3.6 per cent during 2018, compared to 6.6 per cent nationally. But farmland values vary greatly across the country, depending on the region. In Ontario, farmland prices are already among the highest in the country. Looking forward, FCC expects land value increases to about half those seen in 2018. Read more …
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.
