Bill Gates Is Now America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland

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January 17, 2021, 09:45 AM

sig2392

Bill Gates Is Now America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland

bad reporting he is in the middle of the top 100 in acreage.

https://landreport.com/america...-largest-landowners/

January 17, 2021, 10:06 AM

Jupiter

quote:
Originally posted by sig2392:
bad reporting he is in the middle of the top 100 in acreage.

https://landreport.com/america...-largest-landowners/

I believe they said "Biggest Owner of Farmland".

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January 17, 2021, 10:09 AM

slosig

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Originally posted by TMats:
What happened to Ted Turner’s land? I know he had much more than 242k. This story doesn’t ring true.

Maybe someone is drawing a distinction between farmland and rangeland? That seems odd though. I’ve always considered cattle ranchers to be grass farmers.

January 17, 2021, 11:22 AM

trapper189

The guy is worth $121,000,000,000.

I'd be willing to bet he owns a lot of stuff regular people own, but in much larger quantities. In fact, if his ratio of acres of farmland to net worth was the same as mine, he'd own almost 10x what he owns now.