200k an acre???

Replace it with a nice one 10x the acreage or a decent place at 20x the acreage? Of course I would.

200k in gold/ac im out of here and I'll invite you up to the fishing lodge i buy and you can do the radio n TV show from there

I'll give them your number

Now the question is "are you allowed in Canada?"

Not Saskatchewan

Maybe we'll go Greenland instead

Absolutely, then you can go tell city people how much you hate them for putting data centers on the farm land you sold them. It’s a win win situation, get rich and blame the city folk.

The harder thing would be finding enough replacement properties to 1031 into, but that’s an issue I’d be willing to figure out!

Fuck yes. I’m fourth generation and my great grandpa would haunt me if I turned down a billion dollars

Nope not for sale. Been in the family since 1866. Too many lifetimes were dedicated to building this. To sell it now would mean all those who struggled before me to build maintain & preserve it did so in vain. I'm in the slim minority who feel this way and I'm okay with that.

Where do I sign?

With Facebook

Sold! With that kind of money I can start a family farm somewhere else and have generational wealth

If I did sell to a data center, I would have it set up to sell conservation easements hours before the land closing in order to make sure they could not build a data center on the property.

Farm owned by ancestors since 1870. I would sell in an instant. If you really had an ethical quandry? Take the cash, and later pay an acre's worth of it to a bikie gang to beat the absolute shit out of the Chairman and CEO of the AI company. Karma and harmony restored.

Our 43 acre family farm is the last 40 acres in a section that butts up to a mega data center. We sold for $116,000 an acre. It’s going to be a data center. We can take the proceeds and buy 275 acres close buy. It’s a no brainer; I have 3 brothers and my parents and we all agreed it’s the best move for the family. It’s sad to think about it not being there anymore, but the bump up in land ups our income by 7, a no brainer…..

Sell it...at present rate we wont keep it anyway. See ya on the beach.

At my age its different than some 40 something caught in the cycle. Solar farms, data centers and wind farms are all something I see that degrades vales, divides people and stains the land. I have more respect for neighbors than to be a sell out. Greed destroys people. Be Kind.

Has always been a no, and after seeing rolling Central Ky farmland totally destroyed in neighboring counties, is an emphatic no now! The data centers, while they may prove to be a necessity, use so much water and energy, I would not even want them in our part of the state at all.

Yes

It's Canadian dollars

They’ll be worth more by the time your President is done

Watching farm land disappear to see houses going up is not good. Who will grow the food if we dont?

Not a farmer. And fuck no. I live in a semi-rural, waterfront area. All around they tear up trees, farmland, etc to put in shittily built 500k homes with no yard. And no one is buying. Whole new neighborhoods empty for years. Keep the land. Worth more than money.

Yes. I think my kids and dead grandpa would whip me if I didn’t.

We have been farming the same land since it was bought from the Creek Nation. If you offer me 200k an acre, then you would be the proud own of a farm.....

Assuming that’s USD. Would you and a couple of your friends be available to help move some farmland from Alberta, Canada to say Illinois this weekend? There’s currently 3’ of snow on it so if you could all bring snow shoes and some snow shovels that’d be great!

For 20K they could buy my half section at harvest, crop in the field. Any day any time.

Got some C and D soil land they could have for less but they are going to put them on the B soil land beside me. Make sense of that

No, money can’t buy happiness. Do you love what you do??? is the question I’d throw back at you. Is there future generations that are going to take over the farm? if it’s a legacy farm, BIG NO. Now my husband might have a difference opinion on this I don’t know I married into agriculture. Every year is a different year of challenges.

Would sell it yesterday. Unless it was centennial plus… then I’d sell everything but the first 40 acre or something similar.

I don't want dollars. Give it to me in gold & silver loaded on a plane with a pilot to Argentina.

Yes

Would sell the land we have plans to sell one day anyway. That place is for our retirement. Would never sell the land around us or the home places.

No. Hang on to your land as long as you can. They're not making anymore land, and that's why they want yours.

Just the pastureland and low ground

200k a ac?!? Every square ft would be sold.

I believe I would. Harder if family land but they left farms in Germany for a brighter future here. Why can’t I do the same? (For our area, your example is 8-10 times market)

sold

Google is building an 8 billion dollar AI center just outside west Memphis. The Mississippi delta is about to become the digital delta. Take the money and move away fast and far.