It is increasingly difficult for young people to take over the farm

The problem is becoming increasingly combustible over the next five years. Then Swedish agricultural properties worth SEK 100 billion are facing a generational shift, a report from Länsförsäkringar shows.

"Many young people are stomping and wanting to enter the market, but the price of their parents' farms is difficult to get along with the return they see ahead," says Annica Andersson, farmer outside Vollsjö.

She is well acquainted with the problem. Partly as active in the youth section of the Swedish National Farmers 'Association, LRF, and partly as one of four siblings who can imagine taking over their own parents' farm.

- But fortunately, we have plenty of time to agree. Father has said that he wants to keep for at least seven more years, Annica says.

Ingvar Karlsson at Länsförsäkringar Skåne is used to give advice and support to the increasing number of farming families who are facing a difficult and sometimes tiring generation shift.

- A possible solution is, of course, that someone may take over at a price that is below the market price, but then the whole family must agree. For example, about how other siblings should be compensated, he says.