Well, the biggest obstacle.... Financing a farm from one generation to the next is about maintaining financial prosperity for many generations at once. It's obviously more advantageous for a farm to be sold for a sum of money than to be passed on.
As far as your situation goes, I wish we had some more of that happening in Saskatchewan. We have a lot of expansive rural areas that are deserted, as we speak; we don't have people even wanting to live in that situation.