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Regional Comparison of Farmland Values

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Farmland Prices on the Canadian Prairies

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Farmland - Gold with Yield

Farmland is gold with yield - it's highly correlated with inflation, but it produces income every year.

Assiniboia Farmland LP - Pricing NAV History

At Inception $25.000
Dec 31, 2008 $26.030
June 30, 2009 $26.531
Dec 31, 2009 $30.300
June 30, 2010 $30.414
Dec 31, 2010 $31.470
June 30, 2011 $40.120
Oct 31, 2011 $41.479
Dec 31, 2011 $39.617
Jan 31, 2012 $43.485
Apr 30, 2012 $48.092

Assiniboia Farmland LP - Distribution History (per Unit)

Dec 31, 2008 $0.3125
Jun 30, 2009 $0.3125
Dec 31, 2009 $0.4275
Jun 30, 2010 $0.3125
Dec 31, 2010 $0.4275
June 30, 2011 $0.1000
Dec 31, 2011 $0.4790
Murray Gogel

Murray Gogel is General Manager of Palliser Farmland Management Corp., a subsidiary of Assiniboia Capital.  He previously farmed in the Regina area for 25 years.

At its peak, Gogel Farms Inc., a farming company that he operated with a partner, operated approximately 8,000 seeded acres of farmland, dealing with as many at 17 different landlords at the same time. Murray's farm was an early adopter of many new farming practices and technologies, including minimum tillage practices and price hedging with futures contracts. Murray was also active in the custom chemical application and custom farming business.

Off the farm, Murray has served as a combine consultant to Markusson New Holland, a large Regina-based equipment distributor, as well as a farm advisor for the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture & Food and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, a branch of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. Murray is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a Diploma in Agriculture.

Board Positions

  • Full Gospel Bible College (Eston, Sask)
  • CanCom Group of Companies (an international grain marketer and seed processor with over $100 million in sales)