Meet Prof. Richard Vyn Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Richard Vyn describes his research on farmland values, and factors affecting farmland values such as wind turbines. 

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College
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Text: Prof. Richard Vyn
Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ridgetown Campus
Richard: I do a lot of research on farmland values.
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Farmland represents a large proportion of total farm assets and any changes and trends that occur in farmland values
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tend to command a great deal of attention. So as a result it's important to get a better understanding of what are some of the factors
that influence farmland values. And I focus primarily on the impacts of specific policies, such as the Greenbelt, on farmland values
and I've also extended this research to residential properties.
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Richard: Currently I'm doing some research looking at, kind of extending the work I was doing on wind turbines to estimate the impact of wind
turbines on property values all across Ontario. So I started with one wind farm
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Richard: and now I'm looking at the impacts of all wind farms. And I think this is an important area of study just given the controversy
that's ensued in Ontario over this issue, a lot of people are concerned about the potential health impacts as well as the impact on
property values. And what I want to do is to take a look at the data
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and see if the data supports these concerns.
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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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