Billionaire Globalist Bill Gates Suddenly Becomes America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland

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Bill Gates is now America's biggest owner of farm land

Billionaire lockdown fanatic Bill Gates has been quietly buying up 242,000 acres of farmland across America – enough to make him the largest private farmland owner in the United States.

According to newly a released report, Gates, who is the fourth richest person on the planet, has built up a disturbing farmland portfolio spanning 18 U.S. states.

His largest land-holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres). The globalist also has a stake in 25,750 acres of transitional land on the west side of Phoenix, Arizona, which is being developed as a new suburb.

Forbes.com reports: According to The Land Report’s research, the land is held directly and through third-party entities by Cascade Investments, Gates’ personal investment vehicle. Cascade’s other investments include food-safety company Ecolab, used-car retailer Vroom and Canadian National Railway. 

While it may be surprising that a tech billionaire would also be the biggest farmland owner in the country, this is not Gates’ only foray into agriculture. In 2008, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced $306 million in grants to promote high-yield, sustainable agriculture among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The foundation has further invested in the development and proliferation of “super crops” resistant to climate change and higher-yield dairy cows. Last year, the organization announced Gates Ag One, a nonprofit to advance those efforts.

It is not entirely clear how Gates’  farmland is being used, or whether any of the land is being set aside for conservation. (Cascade did not return Forbes’ request for comment.) However, there is some indication that the land could be used in a way that aligns with the foundation’s values. Cottonwood Ag Management, a subsidiary of Cascade, is a member of Leading Harvest, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable agriculture standards that prioritize protections of crops, soil and water resources. 

Gates is not the only billionaire on The Land Report’s list of top private farmland owners. Wonderful Company cofounders Stewart and Lynda Resnick (net worth: $7.1 billion) ranked number three with 190,000 acres. Their farmland produces the goods for their brands including POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios and Wonderful Halos mandarins.

While Gates may be the country’s biggest farmland owner, he by no means is the largest individual landowner. In its list of 100 top American landownersThe Land Report gives the top spot to Liberty Media Chair John Malone, who owns 2.2 million acres of ranches and forests. CNN founder Ted Turner ranked number three with 2 million acres of ranch land across eight states. Even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is investing in land on a large scale, landing the 25th spot with his ownership of 420,000 acres, mainly in west Texas.

5 Comments

  1. Trillionaires and Billionaires should be taxed down to plain multi-millionaires. Not because I begrudge anyone being fantastically wealthy, though in a world where people still starve and die of dirty water it seems insane.. the real reason is that so much concentrated wealth translates into power and I don’t trust these parasites with such power and control.

  2. Yes it’s still a idealistic society And while people eat meat it will always remain that way As I’ve been saying for decades now every city has thousands of square metres of almost petmqme tly vacant office space that could easily be turned into hydroponic marker gardens for vegetables sprouts mushrooms and homes could easily be allowed to keep one or two chickens ,those with gardens, and grow more veggies and fruit which councils could keep free from fruit fly just like they do with fruit growing farming areas If they actually REALLY wa ted to and werent lying that is .The whole world could have zero food shortage VERY VERY EASILY if they didnt WANT to have starvation and shortage and all the profits that come from it .Deceivers murderers frauds liars thieves HYPICRITES OPPORTUNISTIC PARASITES .

    • Feudalistic I typed a feudalistic society And the agricultural food securing monopolies are rhe new world Batons .But it’s still Croen Land owned really by the sector private owners of the CROWN There are several crowns in the law BUT even the crown jewels are in the possession of the Tower which is in tbe privately owned City of London independent city STATE corporation And possession is 9 tenths of the law. But yes it’s just setting ip a pre dem8cratic revolution legal and social political financial power class system all over again U der uou noses and in your faces facilitated by lying representatives defrauding democracy and betraying their constituents and constitutions .For selfish gains .

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