Manitoba mega-farm sale price: $53.3 million

By Connor Lynch
THE PAS, Man. — It’s not the largest farm in Canada, but it’s huge and it’s for sale. The Manitoba farm is so large that every acre of Ontario’s tobacco could be grown there. It’s about eight times the size of the town of Renfrew and almost five times larger than the larger crop farms in Eastern Ontario.
The 23,800-acre property in The Pas is listed at a cool $53.3 million, said Saskatoon ReMAX agent Darren Sander. As far as he knows, it’s the “largest land package of cultivated acres in Canada.”

It started as one farm property for sale, which itself was already a staggering 14,600 acres. Sanders then reached out to the farmer’s neighbours to see if they were wanting to sell. That added two more farms to the listing, increasing the land base by another 9,200 acres.

The land itself is only selling for $1,640 an acre, totaling about $39 million. The farm’s equipment and infrastructure, including more than 40 grain bins, farm machinery, houses and equipment shops, is priced at about $14 million.

Despite its size, it’s far from the most expensive farmland sale in Canadian history. Back in 2017, a 150-acre farm at Caledon East, north of Brampton, sold to a developer for a whopping $97 million, an astounding $646,000 per acre.