Property assessments are on the rise in the Municipality of Westlake-Gladstone, especially when it comes to farmland.

The Manitoba Assessment Branch spoke at Westlake-Gladstone's council meeting Tuesday and advised that most farmland property assessments in the municipality will rise 25 per cent, while residential property assessments are going up about one per cent, Westlake-Gladstone Mayor David Single says.

"This means next year, unless things change, farmers are going to end up paying a high percentage of the taxes," Single explains. "The way they could change is if the province would change the portioning, or the percentage of tax paid on farmland compared to residential."

Single says Westlake-Gladstone continues to lobby the province with partners through the Association of Manitoba Municipalities to alter the proportional tax load farmers shoulder compared to residential property owners.

"They have changed this before so they could change it and that would lessen the amount more that farmers have to pay," the Westlake-Gladstone Mayor adds.

New assessed values will impact property taxes in 2018.