It's everywhere. My county is less and less farmland and all the time.

It does seem sad. I fear developers can afford to pay top dollar, where other farmers can not afford it at half the price. I think in the rural area I lived farmland never went on the market, there were just private transactions between farmers.

If I was going to buy a farm it wouldn't be in Ontario! How short is the growing season?

It is sad. There's no reverting the land once it's sh*tted up.

Here in the Detroit area, we go south to get to Ontario, Canada.

Don't worry! Detroit is becoming farmland again.

Since the NDP/Liberal government is aiming for 432,000 immigrants this year and 451,000 annually by '24, they have to live somewhere.

Welcome to Canada!

You should buy it and be a farmer. You can get up before dawn every day! You’ll spend a couple hundred thousand dollars on the bare minimum amount of equipment needed to get some of the work done. You can work 18 hour days and not get it all done and not be able to find workers to hire because no one wants to do farm work. The government will help you by making it hard to hire migrant workers or immigrants who will actually show up to work on time with a positive attitude and do a good job. The government will also make you file towering stacks of paperwork regarding how your operations affect nearby water quality and over regulate your operations to the point you can’t make money doing what you are allowed to do. It will rain. It will not rain. It will be too cold and too hot. Your equipment will break down and the parts needed to repair it come from (came from) China. People will complain about smells but insist on only purchasing natural and sustainable and green and organic. Guess what gets used as fertilizer when people insist that “chemicals” not be used. But the smell!!! And the citiots with their bird feeders (we love to watch the birds) are spreading avian flu at warp speed. Avian flu is spread by wild birds and when wild birds congregate at bird feeders, it’s like putting someone with Covid on a jumbo jet. If one chicken in your flock of laying hens or broilers or Thanksgiving turkeys gets it, the government makes you destroy the whole flock.

That $2 million price tag will probably cover what that farmer owes on his equipment, supplies, seed, etc. He is most likely selling because the rest of the world has a truly warped understanding of how food get to our plates.

^^^ This. Exactly this.

Reminds me of the wry joke about the farmer who won the lottery. Asked how he planned to use his winnings, he said, ”Oh, I’ll probably just keep farming until the money runs out.”

@ShadyWillowFarm and/or the next generation doesn't want to own in jointly and the ones that want to farm can't afford to buy out the others. The fate of the family farm divided my family.

Mississauga City Centre late 1960s (just west of Toronto)

Towers of central Mississauga, 2022, home to 729,000 people.

Oh, where oh where will they find food and water??

Bruce McLauglin, the developer who conceived the modern city of Mississauga, projecting a centre of one million while calling for a Canada of 100 million people.

We visited one of our previous homes, it was next to several farms. Now, the farms have been developed. The nearby orchard has a new problem: the farmers used to take the leftover apple mash for the livestock; now the orchards have to dispose of it some other way.