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Bill Gates is the Countries Biggest Owner in Farmland

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Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of over $100 billion. He is now also America’s biggest private farmland owner, but he is not the biggest individual landowner.

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Bill Gates owns around 242,000 acres of farmland, 52,000 acres than the next largest farmland owner in America. His farmland making up around 378 square miles, is equivalent to 39,325 football fields.

“It was Eric O’Keefe from the Land Report who ferreted out the story after reading that 14,500 acres of choice farmland in Benton County, Washington, had been sold for $171 million, or nearly $12,000 per acre. O’Keefe describes the area as “some of the richest farmland in the Lower 48,” that “savvy investors have been plowing millions of dollars into.‘”

Bill Gates Is This Country’s Biggest Farmland Owner



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Sage Edwards

Sage Edwards

Sage is a writer and photographer for Organic Lifestyle Magazine. At 18 years old Sage weighed more than 320 pounds. After years of being in persistent pain at such a young age, she decided it was time for a change. She started cranberry lemonade, a salad a day, cut out refined sugar and processed foods, Sage lost 100 pounds in less than a year. Today she likes to start her mornings with a run and weight lifting, and a big salad. She enjoys cooking, working out, and learning about health and the way of the Organic Lifestyle.

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