America’s Biggest Owner Of
Farmland Is Now Bill Gates
Forbes,
by
Ariel Shapiro
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/16/2021 10:35:11 PM
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),
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 1/16/2021 10:43:30 PM (No. 663575)
You vill eat vhat we tell you to eat or you don't eat.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/16/2021 10:48:55 PM (No. 663581)
Coming soon to a store near you - Soylent Green
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/16/2021 11:02:04 PM (No. 663593)
The bugs he wants us to eat don't require much farmland though, or at least that's the claim. Rest assured Bill and company will still dine on the finest steaks and seafood the world has to offer.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 1/16/2021 11:03:20 PM (No. 663596)
Fallow land or actively producing land? Plans for actual farming, or removing the land from farming in hopes of producing a famine? Water rights? Gates always treats things as a zero sum game. Best friends with Buffett among others. Archer Daniels Midland? Suppose farmers didn't grow food. Sounds like Gates.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
daisey 1/16/2021 11:49:19 PM (No. 663608)
Re-education camp sites for 75 million Trump supporters? Training centers for Biden’s Boys. Whatever it is, it’s not going to help conservatives.
22 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
thewarden 1/17/2021 12:00:56 AM (No. 663613)
What could possibly go wrong?
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When the evil puppet master leaves this world, Bill will fill the slot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Deepthinker 1/17/2021 12:50:21 AM (No. 663629)
Real Estate is very vulnerable to sudden imposition of extreme taxes by government hostile to the owner.
You can't move it or hide it---but they can assess it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
OhioNick 1/17/2021 12:55:26 AM (No. 663632)
A bigger -- and generally ignored story -- is the fact that foreigners are buying up American farmland. Wisely, some states like Iowa ban the practice. Here in Ohio, Germany is the largest foreign owner of farmland.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 1/17/2021 12:59:42 AM (No. 663635)
Actually, his land holdings are pretty piddling by Kansas standards. I had a friend who used to farm 80,000 acres. This "richest man" has only three times that. Sorry, not impressed. My friend retired about 6 or 8 years ago, sold the land to 'some eastern dudes', the way he told me. if all put together in one spot (it's in 18 different states) it would be less than 20 miles by 20 miles.
If it was all in Kansas it would be less than half a percent of the area of the state. It's not like he's going to get some sort of a monopoly in food production or something.
Forbes is owned by a Hong Kong company.....which means a Chinese company, and ultimately, that means that whatever it does is approved by the ChiComParty. Don't trust Forbes.
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Great. Now he’ll control our food supply.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/17/2021 6:00:09 AM (No. 663693)
Too big to fail. Will big nanny snatch up his land as it's done to the little people?
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
CJohnson 1/17/2021 7:02:52 AM (No. 663736)
Got NaCl? Good. Now, go spread it ....LIBERALLY!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/17/2021 7:03:45 AM (No. 663737)
Well, they will need a place to put all of us once re-settlement begins......
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/17/2021 7:41:33 AM (No. 663752)
I hope the sellers made a tidy profit. They will be able to buy the land back later after Bill figures out he knows nothing about farming. He must have gotten advice from Michael Bloomberg.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franq 1/17/2021 8:18:04 AM (No. 663783)
Mr. Haney!!! (in exasperated tone)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 1/17/2021 9:18:25 AM (No. 663830)
The local communities should raise his property taxes through the roof.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/17/2021 9:57:10 AM (No. 663868)
Pretty good idea but hardly novel.
Somebody should remind Mr. Bill that he can own as much land as he can defend.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/17/2021 10:36:35 AM (No. 663915)
They think he had programming skills? That's cute.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/17/2021 11:11:52 AM (No. 663961)
Just maybe, he will fall off his tractor and get run over by the towed implement...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 1/17/2021 11:58:30 AM (No. 664025)
His hand is tipped OP. He is jockeying for position to control a whole lot of the food sources that determine what America gets to eat. I have been reading that one of his 'investments' is that nasty Burger King fake patty that for all intents and purposes is just vile tasting.
He can't even give the nation a decent software package that doesn't need a security patch, or a vaccine that doesn't cause who knows how many side effects, but we are supposed to believe that he is just an average landowner now? Not buying it.
From the map I saw, he now owns some prime farm/ranch lands which more than likely he will allow to lay fallow and unproductive. Thereby pretty much guaranteeing a food shortage sometime in the future.
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A hedge against the inflation caused by the leftist policies he advocates, also protected from taxes because it's classified as farmland? The world's foremost intellectual property thief hasn't tipped his hand quite yet.