Ever since, he’s been involved in selling farms in the Spiritwood area. He treasures the time he spends before dozens of neighbours who crowd onto yards, sharing coffee and pie as they bid. Every year, the farms up for bid slowly become fewer and larger as farm auctioneering also grows into bigger business. Selling a farm is “always emotional,” Schneider said. That’s because there tends to be one of three reasons for a sale: a bankruptcy, a retirement without succession, or a death. Each of these sales represents a small part of the centralization of agriculture a driving force behind urbanization in Saskatchewan.
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