The rising cost of land is making it harder than ever for young farmers to enter the business. And those barriers come at a time when a growing number of older farmers are planning to leave the industry.
She opened Chèvrerie aux Volets Verts, in St-Esprit, Que., with two goats; she couldn’t afford a large herd and chose animals small enough that she could handle on her own while pregnant with her third child.
“The main challenge right now is really the cost of agricultural land,” said Benoît Curé, co-ordinator of ARTERRE, a program that pairs aspiring farmers with landowners and farmers planning to retire. Landry, like more than half of the aspiring farmers who have worked with ARTERRE, is renting her space. Her small operation is located on a former dairy farm that’s now used for hay and cereal crops. Her farm has now grown to 40 female goats and a handful of males for breeding. There’s enough space in her barn for 60 females, she said, but she has enough demand to support 100.
“The relationship between the price of the land and the revenue that can be expected from the land — that ratio is the highest we’ve ever seen,” Gervais said in a recent interview. “So we’re really at prices that are the highest we’ve ever seen, not just in absolute value in dollars per hectare, but also relative to what can be generated in income.”
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