I have a feeling it will be worth a lot of money pretty soon.
2006-08-02 15:33:17 · 7 answers · asked by Duffman 4 in Environment
Global warming will generally help, but in hard to predict ways. Certainly our growing season will lengthen, that has already happened and there are tree growing 50-100 miles north of the treeline that oral histories and paleontology say has existed for thousands of years. But, for instance, bark beetles now get in two life cycles instead of one each summer and that hurts our spruce more than the warmer temps help.
Also, global food demand will generally make farmland everywhere more valuable, expecially as some of those hungry places like China are also becoming able to pay for imports.
BUT, and it is a big but, nothing is going to change the angle of our light. In December, the highest my sun gets is 11 degrees and most of the state is north of me (in Kenai). At noon in June, the sun is only 34 degrees up in the sky. Sure, it's up for 19 hours, but that solar input is spread over more land area because it is at such a shallow angle. A single vertical tree or house can intercept a lot of light, but a forest of trees or a field of beans must share.
A few crops do well here (carrots, lettuce, onions, broccoli, potatos, hay), some growing to record size (rutabagas, cabbages). But those aren't high value crops like fruits and nuts. A lot of plants just need a longer (in months) growing season than they need long days (in hours of sunlight). And trees and vines would need to be able to overwinter temps that can be -40 or -50F.
Our building and labor costs are higher, especially for seaonal work. What is a living wage for a job that only existing for 4 months? You can't make much ice fishing through the winter!
Then there's the issue of transport to market. If you can't sell it locally, US and Canadian population centers are 1,500 to 2,000 miles away. You'd have to be doing it on a large enough scale to ship to Japan or beyond - that is done for our seafood, which is world class, but primarily by canneries that are owned by Japanese interests.
2006-08-02 22:19:42 · answer #1 · answered by David in Kenai 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can buy farmland in Alaska. As far as it being worth a lot of money pretty soon...it is worth a lot of money now. Land is very expensive in Alaska.
As far as having a working farm, it is very hard to make enough money during the summer to last you the entire year.
2006-08-03 04:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by Patti C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
contact a actual sources agent that makes a speciality of a few of those homes. you'll locate them in case you google: (even with state), farmland. it won't be able to be farmland, yet that aspect period is almost a seize-all which ability land often as a change of homes or organisation homes. There are actual sources brokers focusing on this. the following is a few listings i found.
2016-11-27 22:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with David in Kenai, also if you are looking for any type of land to be worth money you need to buy land that they are going to want to build on like subdivision, for instance up knik goose bay in wasilla. The land is expensive there to begin with but the value is always going up.
2006-08-03 13:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by Dalmatian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of global warming?
2006-08-02 16:15:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you are in for the long term (50 years or so), i think you are right.
2006-08-02 18:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by ddwang8888 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF YOU CAN FIND IT....GO FOR IT.....LOTSA SUNSHINE
2006-08-02 23:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by rod h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋