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Singleton Family | No. 9 1,110,000 ACRES Family patriarch HENRY SINGLETON (1916–1999) purchased New Mexico’s historic San Cristobal Ranch in 1986. Located just south of Santa Fe between the Cerrillos Hills, the Jemez Mountains, the Ortiz Mountains, and the Sangre…
Per the newly released 2020 Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey, conducted by the Department of Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the current average value of the state’s ag land comes in at $2,730 per acre. Prices peaked back…
Poet John Poch and photographer Jerod Foster have created a tribute to some of the most iconic landscapes in the LONE STAR STATE. By Eddie Lee Rider, Jr. The territory between the Brazos River and the Rio Grande is beyond…
Credit M.W. DURHAM SR. with creating this flagship brand a century ago. During the depths of the Great Depression, the Central Texas entrepreneur set out tables piled high with fresh pecans and paid eager locals by the pound to shell…
Brad Kelley | No. 8 1,139,984 ACRES (down 10,016 acres) The Wall Street Journal christened Kelley as “The Man With a Million Acres” in 2012. Kelley has, in fact, bought and sold millions of acres nationwide. As 2019 came to…
Now you can book the MARFA RANCH made famous by Beyoncé. — Darla Guillen Gilthorpe Beyoncé is no stranger to blazing trails in the music industry. Now she can add hospitality trendsetter to her resume. Just one snapshot of the…
The storied Houston family calls 388,000 acres in and around Harris County theirs thanks to the vision of patriarch Hugh Roy Cullen (1881–1957). After owning a seat on the Houston Cotton Exchange, Cullen turned to the oil business, pioneering now…
Peter Buck | No. 7 1,236,000 ACRES (up 311,000 acres) Privately held Subway, which was founded by Peter Buck and Fred DeLuca in the 1960s, is the largest single-brand restaurant chain on earth with more than 41,000 locations in 100-plus…
San Angelo sold 846 acres of the Ford Ranch for $1.296 million to a pair of limited liability corporations. According to the conditions of the sale, San Angelo retains 50 percent of the property’s mineral rights along with all rights…
Irving Family | No. 6 1,247,880 ACRES Kenneth Colin “K.C.” Irving (1899–1992) ranks as Canada’s equivalent of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. In the early 20th century, Irving gained a foothold in the oil patch that eventually evolved into…
