{"podcast":{"title":"Impact Farming","slug":"impact-farming-334285","podcast_index_feed_id":334285,"rss_url":"https://impactfarming.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://impactfarming.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/d/f/0/5df0edb6dfab897fe55e3c100dce7605/podcast_cover-4-20240610-v3pi251kdl.jpg","author":"Tracy Brunet","episode_count":446,"summary":"Welcome to Impact Farming, a podcast show dedicated to helping Canadian farmers excel in the business of farming. Our goal at Impact Farming is to introduce our audience, Canadian Farmers, to the people and ideas that are going to make an impact on their farm business. Host Tracy Brunet chats with today's most successful farm advisors and industry leaders to bring our audience the best and most important ideas. This show is designed to bring Canadian farmers impactful farm business information that can be consumed on the go.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T08:20:28.715610+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/impact-farming-334285"},"episode":{"title":"Canadian Farmland Values & the Agriculture Economic Outlook with JP Gervais","slug":"canadian-farmland-values-the-agriculture-economic-outlook-with-jp-gervais","published_at":"2026-04-08T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/impact-farming-334285/canadian-farmland-values-the-agriculture-economic-outlook-with-jp-gervais","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/impact-farming-334285","url":"https://impactfarming.libsyn.com/canadian-farmland-values-the-agriculture-economic-outlook-with-jp-gervais","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/impactfarming/Canadian_Farmland_Values__the_Agriculture_Economic_Outlook_with_JP_Gervais.m4a?dest-id=729499","summary":"Farmland continues to be one of the most important and closely watched assets in Canadian agriculture. In this episode of The Impact Farming Show, Tracy sits down with J.P. Gervais, Executive Vice President of Ag Production and Chief Economist at Farm Credit Canada, to discuss the 2025 FCC Canadian Farmland Values Report and the current economic outlook for Canadian agriculture. They break down farmland value trends across Canada, discuss what's driving land demand, and explore how economic pressures such as interest rates, fertilizer prices, fuel costs, and global uncertainty may shape the road ahead for farmers. In This Episode • What the FCC Canadian Farmland Values Report is and why it matters to farmers • Key findings from the 2025 farmland values report • Regional differences across Canada, including farmland trends in BC and Manitoba • What FCC is seeing in farmland transactions and demand heading into 2026 • Cropland vs. pastureland demand and the influence of strong cattle markets • Whether farmland values are expected to continue increasing • The broader economic outlook for Canadian agriculture • Global factors impacting agriculture including war, fuel prices, and fertilizer costs • Interest Rates 101 for farmers and what producers should understand moving forward • Interest rate expectations for 2026 and beyond • Final insights for Canadian farmers navigating land purchases and financial decisions Timestamps 0:00 – Welcome to the episode and guest introduction 2:05 – What the FCC Canadian Farmland Values Report is and what it measures 4:00 – Overview of the 2025 farmland values results 5:45 – Surprising trends in the report 10:30 – Farmland as an investment – a market all of its own? 13:12 – BC decreases and Manitoba increases 16:30 – Cropland vs pasturelan…","meta_description":"Farmland continues to be one of the most important and closely watched assets in Canadian agriculture. In this episode of The Impact Farming Show, Tracy s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2197,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/impact-farming-334285/episodes/canadian-farmland-values-the-agriculture-economic-outlook-with-jp-gervais/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/impact-farming-334285/canadian-farmland-values-the-agriculture-economic-outlook-with-jp-gervais.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}