Is Farmland The Best Investment

[jazz]

Your wife and her parents would likely have an answer to the question. Not many old-timers left who could describe what happened back there.

Hear what you are saying and definitely concerned but even landowners in Europe were reunited with their titles after WW2. Its about the only asset that offers a hope of survivability when forces turn dark.

[GDR]

Given the direction we are headed, not hard to envision a time when we have been regulated out of being able to farm the land in this country, but still responsible for maintaining it. Paying property taxes, restoring habitat, controlling noxious weeds, liability for trespassers.

Look at how many are already calculating the costs to abandon and restore all oil and gas facilities and infrastructure, and who they expect to pay for it. As Jazz said in another thread, shutting down oil and gas is just the beginning.

Yep that's just what I was thinking too. Wetlands/ cleared bush /eroded land / contaminated land. Could be the scenario someday that it is better to walk away than comply with regulations.

What if the ROW gets there act togeather and no longer needs food from Canada? Or potential non agricultural food source? If our cost of production is higher than the revenue potential of the land it becomes a liability, costs taxes, upkeep and maintenance.

Definately a plausible situation.

[macdon02]

I have a buddy from South Africa that i met in Orlando, his security costs are higher then his mortgage. Assets gets seized as deemed appropriate by govt without compensation. We've talked about how his govt is basically practicing genocide on farmers that refuse to walk away. It's a common wealth country, should be civil, but we share a similar history as far as over running the locals. I don't have an answer on if farmland is the best.

https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/constitution-eighteenth-amendment-bill/

[Guest]

Was talking to a fellow from there who works for a farmer here
He owns 1100 ac there and was basically drove off it
No compensation and land sits idle now as the people that have control of it now have to desire to farm it , just didnt want him to
He said when the ROW turned on them over aparteid , there was nothing their govt could do about it , because of sanctions
He said our situation looks the same down the road

[farmaholic]

In a sense you could say this happened almost everywhere since the beginning of time, an invading group of people taking over someone else's lands, some of those conquests weren't near as violent as others.

Seems the least advanced people lost out to their more technologically advanced conquerors.

[biglentil]

There is no such thing as "land ownership". You may hold land fee simple of the Crown, but every acre in Canada is Crown land.

[burnt]

There is no such thing as "land ownership". You may hold land fee simple of the Crown, but every acre in Canada is Crown land.

True.

But protected by Crown Patent or Letters Patent, which, while variable in form, generally declare that the Crown has alienated, without reservation, all interests/claims to the land excerpt for reservations (eg. - mineral rights, certain timber rights) which are SPECIFIED within the patent.

Today, Crown Patents are still issued when land is taken up from the Crown, or when an institution, such as our farm representative groups, are given their commission from the "Crown", which in their case would be the Province, I believe.

These Letters Patent are to demonstrate that the agreement with the patentee has the full support and weight of the Crown behind them.

However, experience shows that most levels of government do not want to recognize the significance of Crown Patents. because of they would recognize them, their whole damned system of oppression would come crumbling down around them and they would no longer be able to order our daily operations and lives.