From Record Gains to Market Balance: Why Canadian Farmland Remains a Smart Long-Term Investment in 2025. Canadian farmland remains a resilient investment in 2025, with strong regional growth and solid underlying fundamentals. From Manitoba to Alberta, demand is driving value increases, while mature markets like Ontario and British Columbia are stabilizing, signaling a balanced, […]
Are you a first-time investor in Canadian agricultural land or forests and unsure where to start? This article provides an overview of the federal and provincial legislation governing foreign investment in Canada. The Investment Canada Act All foreign investments in Canada are subject to the Investment Canada Act (ICA), which is regularly updated to […]
Canadian farmland prices have been rising steadily for decades. This trend continued in 2024. According to the FCC 2024 Farmland Values Report that analyzes land price trends on an annual basis, farmland values across Canada increased by an average of 9,3% in 2024, lower than the increase of 11,5% reported for 2023. The highest increases […]
2024 mid-year Canadian farmland values have increased despite lower revenues and elevated interest rates. According to the FCC / FAC mid-year report 2024 on #farmland #values, prices for Canadian cultivated farmland values rose by an average of 5.5% in the first half of 2024. For the second consecutive year, Saskatchewan and Quebec have recorded the […]
The agricultural landscape in Canada is undergoing a profound transformation driven by economic forces that mirror those that have revolutionized residential real estate over the past two decades. Investors, ranging from pension funds to affluent urban families, are increasingly seeing farmland as a lucrative investment. This shift is significantly impacting farmland values, especially in regions […]
This week, the Farmland Credit Corporation (FCC), Canada’s leading financial institution in Canada for farms and agribusinesses, has published the farmland values for 2023. The average values for farmland across all provinces increased by 11.5 percent. This is slightly less than the 12.8 percent increase reported in 2022, but an excellent performance given the relatively […]
According to a report by Valco Consultants published in February 2024, average land prices in South-Western Ontario increased 10.2% in 2023 in comparison with 2022. That brings the annualized compound return rate to 13% for the period between 2010 and 2023. Median land values in Southwestern Ontario stood at C$25,571 per acre (1 acre = […]
Recent discussions in Canada about the ownership of agricultural land by large corporations illustrate the dilemma faced by young farmers who wish to acquire new land, as well as individual farmland investors who want to take advantage of rising values and returns of Canadian farmland. The following article presents an overview of the global development […]
The surface of Canadian agricultural land is vast, covering 39 million hectares or 4% of Canada’s land area, globally positioning Canada at rank 6th, behind other countries such as USA and India (158/156 M hectares) and Russia/China (122/120 M hectares) and Brazil (56 M hectares), but over three times the size than Germany with 12 […]
According to the FCC Farmland Values Report 2022, the average value of cultivated Canadian farmland increased by 12.8% in 2022. This is the highest increase recorded since 2014 and follows consecutive gains of 8.3% in 2021 and 5.4% in 2020. Increases in Farmland Values differed widely by individual Canadian province. According to the FCC Historic […]
