GRAIN FARMS

Admiral - 320 acres - $170,000 with small bungalow

Woodrow - 1,591 acres - $410,000

Woodrow - 960 acres for $390,000

Tugske - 1,581 acres for $350,000

Livestock Farms and Acreages

Swift Current - 516 acres - $550,000 (with bunkhouse - 40 x 40 sheds etc)

Mancota - 2,716 acres - $810,000

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Suddenly Farmland Is In Global Demand

Governments and private companies buying up millions of acres of farmland in other countries to create massive remote farms.

China has quietly bought 3.2 million hectares (7.4 million) acres of farmland, mostly in Africa.

Saudi Arabia has set up the Saudi Company for Agricultural Investment and Animal Production and spent $800 million on overseas farms in 2009 and is looking for more in Africa Argentina, Australia and Eastern Europe.

Japan is also buying huge swaths of farmland in both Africa and South America.

Data collected by the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute shows that, in 2008, governments bought nearly 8 million acres of farmland in foreign countries.

During the first half of last year, such purchases had topped 7 million acres, an area bigger than Belgium.

The data exclude private sector deals totaling nearly 9 million acres over the last three years, including South Korea-based Daewoo's bid for more than 2 million acres arable land in Madagascar. Hyundai recently took control of some 300,000 acres of farmland for beef production in Russia.

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