Land
prices are higher the better the soil and the nearer the fields are
to cities, according to an Ontario Federation of Agriculture survey
of 2,367 farmers.
There
is a sharp difference between Hastings County, at $3,000 an acre,
and Peel Region, next to Toronto, at $50,000.
The
OFA published the report shortly before the Senate committee on
agriculture and forestry released A
Growing Concern: How to Keep Farmland in the Hands of Canadian
Farmers.
The
OFA and University of Guelph published this information in the 2017
Farmland Value and Rental Value Survey report last
month.
