How old?

[blackjack]

...i am 43 and a 2nd generation farmer/rancher ...there are some other 40 something next generation farms in the area as well as the newcomers that are in the intensive type farming... i am just guessing but i would think 3/4s of the grain land is owned by landlords over the age of 60 that is rented out...

[countryguy]

I am 29 and have been holding there for 2 years LOL,which I guess in reality makes me 31.Farm with my 58 year old father.

We crop up to 3500 acres depending on the year and have a 100 head and growing holistically raised June calving cowherd.Our main annual crops are wheat,canola,flax,oats,hemp and ryegrass and have grown other crops such as mustard and canaryseed when the market calls for it.We also grow some timothy for seed.All of our calves are backgrounded on grass.We also have some land suitable for tourism or outfitting that we are currently looking in to.

This area has lots of young farmers,too many in fact.This has a negative effect on the land prices,both purchased and rented.

[wilb]

Mid 40's. More than half my neighbours are younger than me and all want to expand (as soon as the price of land comes down!)

[ivbinconned]

We live in Saskatchewan were we are waiting for land prices to go UP...so we can retire!

[sawfly]

47 a partner and i farm 4400 acres grains
. no one fights over renting land here. its more like (hey you rent it,)
its mostly my age and up.

[rmhay]

45, and one of the youngest in the neighbourhood. Our area mainly grows hay for all the Interior hobby horses. Decent money compared to other commodities. Locally, we see quickly rising land prices as a lot of Alberta oil money finds a home. The older producers are retiring fast and furious and with all the absentee owners, there's soon going to be nobody left to "make hay". I expect this coming year, there will be hayland available to rent for free or nearly so, just to clean the fields off.Even then there will be land going to waste.Damn shame. But what can you do???

[tman]

Just turned 30. (if 40 is the new 20, does that mean that 30 is the new 15. Wow, I'm still really young)

Started up my own independent agronomic consulting business 3 1/2 years ago when I moved back home.

Farmers is my area have been quite successful, until the last 2 years. So there's a relatively high percentage of young farmers.