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18 THE RURAL VOICE
$3,200 to $5,600. Goderich
Township had only two sales, in the
$3,500 area while Colborne's four
sales ranged from $2,900 to $3,500.
There were two sales in Grey
ranging from $3,200 to $4,200 while
Morris was not active in 2002 but
had a range in 2001 from $2,400 to
$2,800. Sales in East Wawanosh
went from $2,200 to $3,000 while
West Wawanosh was priced from a
low of $1,900 to a high of $3,800.
Ashfield recorded sales from $2,250
to $3,500 but most were in the
$3,000 area with one dominant
buyer. There were no sales in
Howick or Turnberry.
Douglas had no figures for Grey
and Bruce Counties.
The prices quoted were for land
only. Livestock brought premiums on
the bare land prices.
Among livestock, dairy seems to
be robust, Douglas said, adding
$6,000 to $7,000 per cow for freestall
facilities. For older tie -stall facilities
the price ranged from $2.500 to
$4,000 per cow.
In feeder pigs, the prices seems to
be about $200 to $215 per pig place
and Douglas expects this to increase
because of the cost of new facilities.
Weaner/nursery operations are
selling at about $165 to $175 per
place with new facilities costing over
$200 per space to construct. Prices
for farrowing operations range from
$750-$1,100 per sow with the cost of
building new facilities hitting $1,50()
to $1,700 per sow. Douglas observed
that people pay a premium to buy a
hog farm with a contract within a
loop but he doesn't include that value
in his valuations.
Layer operations range from
$12.50 to $16 per hen and broiler
barns .range from $7.50 to $9.50 per
bird.
Meanwhile Brian Doidge,
economist and market analyst with
the Ontario Corn producers
Association acknowledged that if
government support for agriculture
increased as his organization has
been lobbying for, some of it would
likely be capitalized in higher rents
for land or higher per -acre prices
paid to buy land, but a portion of the
money would also go to pay down
debt. A U.S. study said that only 24
per cent of the increase in land prices
there could be attributed to their
generous subsidies, Doidge said.0