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