Insights and Stories on Farmland

Manitoba farmers unfazed by flood reports

Mar. 15, 2019 at 7:42 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — As experts forecast a spring flood to hit southern Manitoba, farmers in the Red River Valley won’t be caught off guard. Manitoba’s Emergency Measures Organization held flood preparedness seminars in Morris, Brandon, and Selkirk throughout the week of March 11. Topics covered included the forecast, flood outlook, preparedness […]

Manitoba to prepare for spring flooding

Feb. 28, 2019 at 6:06 pm CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Ag balance sheet points to stable farm economy

Jun. 20, 2018 at 8:28 pm CDT

By Terry Fries

Algeria to open farming concessions to foreigners

May. 7, 2018 at 8:03 pm CDT

By Hamid Ould Ahmed

Farmland values rise, but interest rates curb market

Apr. 23, 2018 at 8:25 pm CDT

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Southern Ontario median farmland price jumps in 2017

Feb. 22, 2018 at 9:04 pm CST

The threat of interest rate increases hasn’t dampened the prices southern Ontario farmers are paying for land. The annual Valco study of land values showed an increase in value of 9.76 per cent for farmland sold in 2017 over 2016. This increase is the largest since 2013. The median price […]

By John Greig

G3 co-owner SALIC looking at Iraq farmland

Feb. 15, 2018 at 1:41 pm CST

Dubai | Reuters –– The Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) is looking at more farmland investment opportunities and has its neighbour Iraq on the list. SALIC, an arm of the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), said it was also looking to expand its investments in the Black Sea […]

By maha-el-dahan

Zimbabwe to give white farmers 99-year leases

Jan. 31, 2018 at 2:30 pm CST

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe will issue 99-year leases to white farmers, according to a government circular, after new President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he would end discrimination along racial lines in agriculture. Fewer than 400 white farmers are still operating in the southern African nation, after former president Robert Mugabe’s […]

By Reuters

Canola ‘streaming’ firm eyes mortgage business

Jan. 30, 2018 at 11:32 pm CST

A Saskatchewan company that offers farmers cash up front for canola to be grown later is now tentatively bringing its model to the farm mortgage business. Input Capital, which sources canola from Prairie growers through multi-year “streaming” contracts, announced Tuesday it has launched a “mortgage stream” as a pilot project. […]

By Staff

Wildfire-damaged grazing areas up for Saskatchewan aid

Dec. 8, 2017 at 2:07 am CST

Saskatchewan’s provincial disaster assistance program (PDAP) will be opened up to cover southwestern grazing areas damaged by this fall’s wildfires. The province’s government relations minister, Larry Doke, on Wednesday announced producers who incurred wildfire damage on “tame and native lands” intended for grazing may now apply for assistance to get […]