Insights and Stories on Farmland

Tighter regulations take effect for B.C. farmland reserve

Mar. 13, 2020 at 2:35 am CDT

New regulations governing how — or if — changes can be made to land’s status within British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) are now in force, but local governments get more prep time for their expanded role. The province on Thursday announced amendments to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) Act […]

Zimbabwe offers land as compensation for 800 seized farms

Mar. 13, 2020 at 12:18 am CDT

By Reuters

Gaza farmers return to lands along volatile Israeli border

Feb. 5, 2020 at 2:22 pm CST

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

Machinery costs driving up fixed farming expenses

Feb. 5, 2020 at 9:41 am CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Ukrainian lawmakers vote to lift ban on sale of farmland by 2020

Nov. 13, 2019 at 11:21 am CST

By Pavel Polityuk

Ukraine president plans farmland reform, large privatizations

Sep. 2, 2019 at 8:54 pm CDT

Kiev | Reuters — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ordered his new government to submit a draft law for land market reform by the start of October and to prepare large-scale privatizations of state companies starting in April next year. Zelenskiy has pledged to lift a longstanding ban on the sale […]

By Reuters

Farm equity growth slows in 2018

Jun. 20, 2019 at 7:27 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Equity in Canada’s farm sector increased by 3.6 per cent in 2018, hitting $522.2 billion, according to a report Thursday from Statistics Canada. The growth was well below the 6.4 per cent increase reported the previous year, and continued a trend of slower growth since 2013. Realized net […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Bernie Sanders promises help for family farms

May. 6, 2019 at 11:04 am CDT

Reuters — U.S. presidential contender Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan on Sunday to help family farmers and rural residents, promising to break up corporate agricultural monopolies and invest heavily in social and economic programs in struggling rural communities. Sanders, an independent U.S. senator and fierce corporate critic, said on a […]

By Reuters

Report shows slower pace for rising farmland values

Apr. 29, 2019 at 8:39 pm CDT

While lower-valued farmland more often showed a higher rate of increase, and price hikes varied from region to region, Canada’s farmland values on average have booked their slowest year-over-year rate of increase in almost a decade. That’s according to the annual Farmland Values Report from Farm Credit Canada (FCC), in […]

By GFM Staff

U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

Mar. 20, 2019 at 8:15 pm CDT

Winslow, Neb./Chicago | Reuters — Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could — in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside. Now, the unthinkable has happened. Record floods have devastated a wide swath of […]

By Humeyra Pamuk P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek