Bill Gates is America’s biggest farmland owner

San Francisco, Jan 16 : Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates owns the largest chunk of private farmland in the US across 18 states, a new report has revealed.
Bill and Melinda Gates amassed 242,000 acres of land in the US, with the largest holdings in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres), according to The Land report.
Bill Gates also owns a stake in more than 24,800 acres of transitional land outside of Phoenix.
Research indicated that the lands across the US is held by Cascade Investment LLC, Gates’ private investment vehicle.
“Gates also backs online used-car seller Vroom through Cascade as well as the Canadian National Railway Company,” Geek Wire reported.
According to the Tri-City Herald, a 14,500-acre swath of choice Eastern Washington farmland in the Horse Heaven Hills in Benton County has just traded hands for almost $171 million – part of Gates’ holdings.