Land use in Canada
Approximately 7% of Canada’s land base is used for agriculture, amounting to 67.5 million hectares.[1]
Farmers buy and sell some $15 billion worth of land each year in Canada.[2]
Price of land[]
Statistics Canada data on the average price per acre from 1970 to 2012:[3]
- 2012: $1,798
- 2010: $1,526
- 2005: $1,107
- 2000: $844
- 1995: $634
- 1990: $555
- 1985: $517
- 1980: $547
- 1975: $217
- 1970: $98
Forests[]
Canada’s forested, other wooded land and other land with tree cover extend over about half of the country’s total land surface—nearly 400 million hectares.[4]
References[]
- ↑ Threats to Water Availability in Canada, Statistics Canada
- ↑ Soaring farmland prices a crisis in the making: Don Pittis, Nov 11, 2013, CNBC
- ↑ Rising prices curb dream of buying farmland, Sep. 09 2013, Joel Schlesinger, theglobeandmail.com
- ↑ Forests in Canada, Natural Resources Canada
External links[]
- Eye-popping farmland prices may have peaked, experts say, May 02, 2014, CNBC
- Green acres: The soaring value of Canada’s farmland, Barrie Mckenna, Sep. 05 2013, theglobeandmail.com
- wikipedia:Forestry in Canada
- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/forestry/
- Forests in Canada, Natural Resources Canada