BREAKING: America’s Biggest Owner Of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79288822 Japan 01/15/2021 10:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an accountant from Panama, I believe most of you heard or know about this now: Quoting: The Panama Connection 79131889 [link to www.forbes.com (secure)] Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world and a self-described nerd who is known for his early programming skills rather than his love of the outdoors, has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America. After years of reports that he was purchasing agricultural land in places like Florida and Washington, The Land Report revealed that Gates, who has a net worth of nearly $121 billion according to Forbes, has built up a massive farmland portfolio spanning 18 states. His largest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres). Additionally, he 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. 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. MORE FOR YOU Did You Get A Second Stimulus Check Today? Here’s Why Trump Signs Executive Orders To Extend COVID-19 Economic Relief, Includes Unemployment Benefits, Eviction Moratorium Swatting North Korea’s Rockets Is A Waste—South Korea Could Target The Launchers 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 landowners, The 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. The rumors circulating around these purchases are not for the feint of heart. My advice to anyone in the US. Find someone to serve, because the future is dukes, lords and barons coming back to rule us in the form of major corporations. Forget the Trump drama, its a distraction. The biggest threat right now is the lack of control over the food supply. Next year at this time, if glp is here, all the talk will be about the food shortages. |
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User ID: 28178764 United States 01/15/2021 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been telling people for over 10 years, "Buy Southern farmland". Best longterm investment. People gotta eat. I am semi-retired on my small farm in Brazoria County, TX now. Gardens, grape vines, pecan trees, sugar cane, platanos (bananas for cooking), chickens, ducks, geese, and a few cows make us almost totally self-sufficient. If you want to invest in something that requires almost no care, buy land with pine tree plantations. Lease to hunters who will patrol it for security. Your only real risk is forest fires. Otherwise, the trees grow without any inputs. |
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User ID: 77690112 United States 01/15/2021 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Kinda like “learn to code” for Kulaks All part of the globalist climate/population control agenda You can count on America to do the right thing after exhausting every other alternative." Winston Churchill |
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User ID: 76905394 Ireland 01/15/2021 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | https://twitter.com/_/status/1350108826645762049 What does he intend to use the land for? Sinister. Civilisation is at a crossroads "Unfortunately the Barbarians dwell among us and our country is grown so weak and pathetic that the Barbarians must be appeased in the name of diversity and cultural sensitivity" ~ Allison Pearson |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 72530568 Canada 01/15/2021 01:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All part of Agenda 21 (Or the revised Agenda 30) plan. The GOVERNMENT will control the food production of the country. Just like they did in communist Russia. They Government will tell the farmers what to plant, what to grow, how to grow it and how to harvest it. The writing is on the wall. Totalitarian government is being implemented before our eyes. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79895689 Australia 01/15/2021 01:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anna Creek Station - Wikipedia Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] It is over seven times the size of the United States' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 3,340 km 2 (830,000 acres; 1,290 sq mi). As of 16 December 2016, the station is owned by the Williams Cattle Company, a family business that bought Anna Creek from S. Kidman & Co, doubling their total area held under pastoral leases. The nearest township is William Creek (which is surrounded by ... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79895689 Australia 01/15/2021 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | here.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79895689 Anna Creek Station - Wikipedia Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_Station [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] It is over seven times the size of the United States' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 3,340 km 2 (830,000 acres; 1,290 sq mi). As of 16 December 2016, the station is owned by the Williams Cattle Company, a family business that bought Anna Creek from S. Kidman & Co, doubling their total area held under pastoral leases. The nearest township is William Creek (which is surrounded by ... Yes THAT KIDMAN.....Nicoles family.. . |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79895689 Australia 01/15/2021 01:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.bloomberg.com (secure)] Jeff Bezos spent summers on his grandparents’ ranch in Texas as a kid, learning how to, among other things, castrate cattle. Today he has his own spread in the Lone Star State, where his company Blue Origin tests its reusable New Shepard rocket. The world’s wealthiest person amassed the 420,000 acres over two decades to become the 26th-largest private landholder in the U.S. He’s in rich company with a relatively new kind of landed gentry—billionaires including John Malone and Ted Turner—and with families whose ancestors purchased their parts of America generations ago. The 100 largest owners of private property in the U.S., newcomers and old-timers together, have 40 million acres, or approximately 2% of the country’s land mass, according to data from the Land Report and reporting by Bloomberg News. Ten years ago, the top 100 had fewer than 30 million acres. It may not seem like much—all told, just about the size of Florida. But land is an often-overlooked repository of wealth, one of those quiet assets, such as artworks or trusts, that make up so much of the country’s unexamined riches as inequality widens. . |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 64895524 Slovenia 01/15/2021 01:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So he bought the next best thing - people. Like WHO functionaries, media companies and so on. His land ownership comes thru owning Monsanto shares, they've been taking over agricultural areas for decades now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 67166987 United States 01/15/2021 01:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Gates and the world want our,the USA,renewal wealth.Every year another money crop.Cotton,tobacco,wheat,corn,long list.Renewal wealth.The USA is RICH,RICH,RICH....And you fraud bastards just gave it all to the communist.You are now a Phd.in economics.So much my children don't know. |
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