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> It is going to sidle a cost to an industry of razor thin margins.

Will it or will farmland value take a dump but remain unchanged in use?

I always thought of farmland these days as a use of last resort and if it could be marketable for buildings, it’s already not economically worth it as a farm except speculatively

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chgs 8 hours ago | parent [-]

In the U.K. farmland has a rental value of about £100 an acre but a purchase price over £10k an acre.

The value in the land isn’t in its use (which is getting 1% ROI), but in speculation it may be granted permission to be converted to housing, or because of tax loopholes.

	▲	blitzar 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The owner also get capital appreciation / depreciation of the land - ~5.7 per cent per annum over the last 100 years bring the total return to a 6.7% ROI. Land at the edge of cities and towns where there is a reasonable chance of development happening costs orders of magnitude more than the average. The person renting that land then farms it (presumably for a profit) for additional ROI.
	▲	pjc50 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes, this came up in the recently closed inheritance tax loophole; people were buying "family farms" purely to leave to their children while doing the minimum of farming.