WHY FARMLAND HAS BECOME SUCH AN ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT PROPOSITION
In January 2021, The Land Report published an article that declared Bill Gates had become America’s biggest private farmland owner. Along with his then-wife Melinda Gates, the US quarterly land-investment magazine stated that the couple had managed to amass some 242,000 acres of farmland, with the largest holdings reported to be located in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Arizona (25,750 acres).