Like most people, when I think of farming, I think of Bill Gates.
Well, no... not at all, actually.
Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world, and as we all know he made that filthy lucre through computers. So what's the deal with this agriculture land-grab? According to Forbes, Gates has been been pulling a sneaky and slowly buying up farmland all over the U.S. And he's currently at 242,000 acres across 18 states!
That makes him the biggest owner of farmland in the entire country.
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.
If it were any other Billionaire, I'd shrug it off, "a billionaire's gotta buy stuff, I 'spose." But this is Bill Gates, the closest thing we have to a real-life supervillain. This is a true globalist, we're talking about. And since he's mega-rich, he thinks he knows better than everyone. Like the way he inserted himself into the Covid pandemic. Or the time he proposed blacking out the sun to fix global warming (it's true. Click the link).
So what are his plans for all this farmland??
Well, it's not entirely clear, yet. We do know that Gates has invested in developing and proliferating "super crops" which would be resistant to climate change (probably not gonna be non-GMO, folks). He's even invested in trying to make dairy-cows that yield way more milk (I don't even want to picture what one those would look like). And as recent as last year, Gates announced a new nonprofit called Gates Ag One to promote those aforementioned agricultural initiatives.
So probably nothing to worry about! Go back to sleep.
If you think stuff like this doesn't affect you, you might consider that the food you eat doesn't grow in the grocery store. It comes from a farm. I'm not Mr. All-Natural over here. But the fact that there are arrogant uber-billionaires playing God with food production should at least pique your curiosity, I would think.
Oh, also, you might be interested to know that Jeff Bezos owns nearly twice as much land as Gates. It's not all farmland, but the Amazon CEO has 420,000 acres with his name on it.
But don't worry, you own that 1/4 acre your house sits on. Or the bank does...
But what's the difference really?
