The 2020 Land Report 100 sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate features the debut of Bill and Melinda Gates as America’s leading farmland owners with 242,000 acres of productive farmland in more than a dozen states. All told, the Gateses…
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The Land Report Winter 2020
Tagged with: Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, Bobby Patton, Emmerson Family, John Malone, Mark Walter, Ted Turner
Posted in Back Issues, Land Report 100
Posted in Back Issues, Land Report 100
Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
By ERIC O’KEEFE The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as America’s largest private farmland owners. Call it a hunch, but the story did not jibe. I scanned the headline for the umpteenth time and then read and reread…
Tagged with: Bill Gates, Cascade Investment, Eric O'Keefe, Land Report 100, Melinda Gates, Microsoft
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Land Report 100
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Land Report 100
Land’s Best Friend: Perfect Pair
Text and photography by LYNN DONALDSON Russell Gordy is my neighbor. Let me rephrase that. Russell Gordy’s 48,000-acre Double Arrow Ranch sits just outside Livingston, the Montana town where my family and I live. Russell is a Texan, a native…
Tagged with: Double Arrow Ranch, Gordy and Sons, Italian Spinone, land's best friend, Lynn Donaldson, Russell Gordy
Posted in Dogs, Feature, Land Report 100, Montana, Recreation, West
Posted in Dogs, Feature, Land Report 100, Montana, Recreation, West
O’Connor Family: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
O’Connor Family | No. 16 587,800 ACRES The O’CONNOR RANCH encompasses portions of Goliad, Refugio, and Victoria counties in Texas’s Coastal Bend. Founded by Irish immigrant Thomas O’Connor (1817-1887), the County Wexford native owned approximately 100,000 head of cattle and…
Tagged with: acreage, Goliad County, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, land, O'Connor Ranch Heirs, oil, Refugio County, Texas, Victoria County
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Land Report 100, Minerals, Southwest, Texas, Water
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Land Report 100, Minerals, Southwest, Texas, Water
Ford Family: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
Ford Family | No. 15 600,000 ACRES (up 20,000 acres) Founded by Washington native Kenneth Ford (1908–1997) in 1936, ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS has become one of the largest family-owned wood products manufacturers in the nation. The company’s expansive timber holdings…
Tagged with: acreage, Allyn Ford, Ford Family, Grady Mulbery, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, Kenneth Ford, land, Land Report 100, Roseburg Forest Products, Timber, wood products manufacturers
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Land Report 100, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific, South, South Carolina, Timber, Virginia
Posted in Conservation, Feature, Land Report 100, North Carolina, Oregon, Pacific, South, South Carolina, Timber, Virginia
Lykes Heirs: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
Lykes Heirs | No. 14 615,000 ACRES In 1900, patriarch Howell Tyson Lykes shuttered his medical practice in favor of growing citrus and raising cattle with his seven sons on 500 acres near Brooksville, Florida. Today, family-owned Lykes Bros. maintains…
Tagged with: acreage, Cattle, citrus, Florida, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, Howell Tyson Lykes, Johnnie James Lykes, land, Lykes Bros., Texas, water
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Florida, Hunting, Land Report 100, South, Southwest, Texas, Water
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Florida, Hunting, Land Report 100, South, Southwest, Texas, Water
Briscoe Family: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
Briscoe Family | No. 13 640,000 ACRES By the end of his long and distinguished life, two-term Texas governor Dolph Briscoe Jr. (1923-2010) ranked as the single largest landowner in the Lone Star State. The family’s BRISCOE RANCH COMPANY got…
Tagged with: Briscoe Family, Briscoe Ranch Company, Catarina Ranch, Cele Carpenter, Dolph Briscoe, Governor Dolph Briscoe, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, Janey Marmion
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Land Report 100, Southwest, Texas
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, Land Report 100, Southwest, Texas
Wilks Brothers: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
Wilks Brothers | No. 12 708,475 ACRES (up 3,108 acres) Based west of Fort Worth, FRAC TECH founders Farris and Dan Wilks love land. Not only do they have substantial holdings in Montana and Idaho as well as properties in…
Tagged with: Bull Mountain Ranch, Dan Wilks, Farris Wilks, Frac Tech, Hayden Outdoors Real Estate, Little Snowy Mountain Ranch, Rosebud Mountain Ranch, Sage Creek Ranch, Wilks Brothers, Wilks Ranch Brokers
Posted in Cattle, Feature, Hunting, Idaho, Land Report 100, Montana, Oregon, Pacific, Recreation, South, Southwest, Tennessee, Texas, West
Posted in Cattle, Feature, Hunting, Idaho, Land Report 100, Montana, Oregon, Pacific, Recreation, South, Southwest, Tennessee, Texas, West
The Land Report Spring 2020
America’s Best Brokerages and Top Auction Houses headline a blockbuster Spring issue showcasing our 2019 Deals of the Year: 2019 Deal of the Year: It may have been listed for more than $54 million, but that didn’t stop Texas’s La Bandera…
Pingree Heirs: 2019 Land Report 100 Sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate
Pingree Heirs | No. 11 830,000 ACRES Known as the Merchant Prince of Salem, David Pingree (1795–1863) purchased his first tract of Maine timberland in 1841. Although he eventually established landholdings in Kentucky, Ohio, New Hampshire, Texas, and Wisconsin, his…
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