Bill Prybylski is worried current rules around foreign investors purchasing Saskatchewan farmland will price local producers out of the market.

“That’s our biggest concern,” said Prybylski, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) in an interview Friday.

“We’re having to compete against that to buy land. So we have a young producer that’s wanting to expand his operation who just can’t, because every time a piece of land comes up for sale, it’s being bought up by who knows?”

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On Nov. 12, Prybylski sent a letter to Minister of Agriculture Daryl Harrison that outlined how APAS would like to see the province address the issue.

The letter identifies what APAS calls systemic challenges to farmland ow

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