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Prairie farmland rentals rates difficult to track

Rental rates could be important in 2025 as grain producers deal with lower grain prices and relatively high input costs

By Robert Arnason March 30, 2025

In Red Deer County in central Alberta, a survey found cropland leasing rates were around $75 per acre. Renting that same land could be 40-50 per cent more expensive in 2025 — but it’s difficult to even make a guess because land rents are considered a “dark market.”

Features

Farm it like you’re ‘just’ renting it?

Do farmers look after rented farmland differently than land they own? Should they?

By Angela Lovell September 18, 2017

We’ve all heard the term “drive it like a rental” but could that also apply to farmland? Is a farmer more likely to use conservation practices like no-till or variable rate technology, or apply more fertilizer and/or manure to improve the fertility on land he or she owns than on rented land? In April 2013, […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Making plans for the long term

By Leeann Minogue February 15, 2017

In every issue of Grainews you’ll see at least two or three articles about the benefits of long-term crop rotations. Or, if there aren’t whole articles, there are always a few comments from experts about using four- or even eight-year rotations instead of something like canola, snow, canola, snow. We’ve all heard about the benefits: […] Read more

The kindness of others is often a factor in transactions like land rental.

Columns

Renting land: Sometimes it all works out for the best

Sometimes renting, farmland or houses, works just the way we’d like it to

By Toban Dyck February 7, 2017

My wife and I rented the upstairs of a brownstone house on Palmerston Avenue in Toronto. It was small. It was expensive. But it was an experience we won’t forget. Our landlords were Portuguese. They were elderly. They drove a mid-’80s Mercedes diesel car, tan colour. And they were generous. So generous. When they made […] Read more

Features

What’s affecting land rental rates

The farmland rental market can respond to a lot of different market factors

By Angela Lovell December 1, 2016

When the value of land goes up it tends to affect land rental prices too, but it’s not the only factor that has seen land rents increase over the past few years — in some areas quite dramatically. Productivity of the land is also hugely important, as is the amount of competition for land in […] Read more

Quebec’s Agriculture Minister Pierre Paradis announced funding for L’Arterre at winery Cassis Monna et Filles of St-Pierre-de-l’Ile-d’Orleans, Que., accompanied by (l-r) Catherine et Anne Monna and Land Bank agent Leslie Carbonneau and other dignitaries. (Groupe CNW/MAPAQ)

Crops

Quebec service to match farmland sellers, young buyers

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 30, 2016

The Quebec and federal governments are putting up funds for a different kind of online match site: one to connect aspiring young farmers with producers who are either retiring or wanting to sell or rent farmland. The two governments on Tuesday announced $300,000 for the Centre de reference en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Quebec (CRAAQ) […] Read more

Canola farmlands in rural Central West of NSW at sunset, the last rays spread their warm light on the golden canola flowers. Panorama

Crops, Features

Calculating land rental costs

Renting might be the right choice for your farm. But how much should you pay?

By Angela Lovell November 21, 2016

Calculating how much you can afford to pay for rented land takes a certain amount of work, and there may even be some cost involved if you bring in advisors to help, but it may help mitigate some of your risk and prevent you from biting off more than you can chew. There are various […] Read more

Crops, Pasture

Six tips to successful land rental

By Marianne Stamm May 2, 2016

This title to the old Russian folk tale by Leo Tolstoy hasn’t lost any of its significance.* It’s a question farmers ponder today, as land and land rent prices continue to rise to levels never seen before. Despite lower commodity prices, the cost of land is still rising dramatically in the Westlock, Alta. area (about […] Read more

Features

Looking for land

If you’re a farmer looking to rent land or a landowner looking for a renter, there are two good online options

By Leeann Minogue March 14, 2014

Sometimes farmers who want to rent land and landowners looing for good renters have trouble finding each other. Maybe the landowner inherited land, in a place she never lived. Maybe investors bought land in an area where they don’t know any local farmers. Often farmers who would like to rent more land don’t even find […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets up ahead of report

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets up ahead of report

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

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Prairie farmland rentals rates difficult to track

Farm it like you’re ‘just’ renting it?

Editor’s Column: Making plans for the long term

Renting land: Sometimes it all works out for the best

What’s affecting land rental rates

Quebec service to match farmland sellers, young buyers

Calculating land rental costs

Six tips to successful land rental

Looking for land

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