Rise in Alberta Farmland Value

2013 might have been a wild year for the value of Alberta farms for sale and buying land, but a new article from Alberta Farm Express shows that those values for farmland for sale have doubled in the past five years:

How expensive is it to buy Alberta farmland? Try double what it was just five years ago.

“Over the last five years, we’ve seen cash farm receipts going up across the country and especially in Alberta,” said Joel Bokenfohr, manager of business structures and financial policy with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry regarding Alberta farms for sale.

“We have a strong farm economy where a farm’s investment decisions are now going into purchasing assets — land being the obvious choice.

“That’s really driven up farm values.”

We recommend that you take a look at the rest of the article here on farmland for sale in Alberta. What we see here not only tells us that farms have been doing great financially when it comes to buying land, but that the investment in Alberta farmland is bound to pay off.