Bill Gates

The Land Report Winter 2020

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Land Report Editors

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…

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

Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Eric OKeefe

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

The Land Report Fall 2018

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Land Report Editors

Our Investing Issue takes a look at two completely different strategies: one built on blood, sweat, and salt, and the other based on speculation and greed. Guess which one lost $100 million? Other great reads in our fall issue include: Farmland: Bill…

Tagged with: Bill Gates, Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, David Teichert-Coddington, Doug Hart, El Maximo, Freddie Botur, Greene Prairie Farm, Hall and Hall, Ken Mirr, Latt Maxcy, Mirr Ranch Group, Mort Fleischer, The Cottonwood, Walking With the Wounded
Posted in Agriculture, Back Issues, Cattle, Conservation, Farming, Hunting, Midwest, News Desk, Pacific, Public Land, Recreation, South, Southwest, Timber, Water, West

Bill Gates Pays $171 Million for Washington Farmland

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Eric OKeefe

BY ERIC O’KEEFE Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates paid $171 million to acquire approximately 14,500 acres of highly productive farmland in Southern Washington from John Hancock Life Insurance Company. According to The Land Report, Gates’s acquisition, which closed on August…

Tagged with: Alan Busacca, Bill Gates, Cottonwood Ag, Horse Heaven Hills, John Hancock Life Insurance Co., Microsoft
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Washington

Land Report September 2018 Newsletter

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Land Report Editors

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates paid $171 million in August to acquire 14,500 acres of farmland owned by John Hancock Life Insurance Company in one of the most coveted agricultural regions of Washington. The lofty purchase price eclipsed April’s $136 million…

Tagged with: Alan Busacca, Bayer, Bill Gates, CatchMark, Columbia River, Cottonwood Ag, Dubai, El Maximo Ranch, glyphosate, hemp, Hortenstine Ranch Company, Luminant, Monsanto
Posted in Agriculture, California, Farming, News Desk, Newsletter, Oregon, Pacific, South, Southwest, Timber, Washington

More Coverage on the Yellowstone Club Bankruptcy Case

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

It wasn’t two years ago that every media outlet known to man was clamoring over one another to give more column inches to the biggest, gawdiest monstrosity in the West: the Yellowstone Club’s record-breaking $155-million home. Though we’ve banged the drum…

Tagged with: Bill Gates, Chapter 11, Dan Quayle, Discovery Land Co., Edra Blixseth, Eric Oâ€™Keefe, Gallatin Mountains, Greg LeMond, Land Report 100, Montana, Montana ranches, Promontory Club, Tim Blixseth, Yellowstone Club
Posted in Feature, Golf, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West

Yellowstone Club Files for Bankruptcy

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Eric OKeefe

The world’s only private ski and golf community has sought bankruptcy protection. The Yellowstone Club, an exclusive 13,400-acre retreat in Montana’s Gallatin Mountains whose members include Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and former vice president Dan Quayle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in…