Our January newsletter features the Land Report 100 sponsored by Hayden Outdoors. News outlets worldwide have picked up our top story: Bill Gates is America’s largest private landowner with 242,000 acres in 16 states. Other reads include: Green Diamond Resources…
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Land Report January 2021 Newsletter
Tagged with: Bill Gates, Cascade Investment, Koch Industries, Matador Ranch, Spring Creek Ranch
Posted in News Desk, Newsletter
Posted in News Desk, Newsletter
The Land Report Winter 2020
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
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, Tri-City Herald, Wendy Culverwell
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Great Plains, Land Report 100, Midwest, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Great Plains, Land Report 100, Midwest, Pacific, South, Southwest, West
The Land Report Fall 2018
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
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
BY ERIC O’KEEFE Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates paid $171 million to acquire approximately 14,500 acres of highly productive farmland in Eastern Washington from John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Gates’s acquisition, which closed on August 28, ranks as the highest…
Tagged with: Alan Busacca, Bill Gates, Cottonwood Ag, Eric O'Keefe, Horse Heaven Hills, John Hancock Life Insurance Co., Microsoft, Wendy Culverwell
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Washington
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Washington
Land Report September 2018 Newsletter
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
Posted in Agriculture, California, Farming, News Desk, Newsletter, Oregon, Pacific, South, Southwest, Timber, Washington
More Coverage on the Yellowstone Club Bankruptcy Case
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 O’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
Posted in Feature, Golf, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West
Yellowstone Club Files for Bankruptcy
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…
Tagged with: Bill Gates, Chapter 11, Dan Quayle, Discovery Land Co., Edra Blixseth, Eric O'Keefe, Gallatin Mountains, Greg LeMond, Land Report 100, Montana, Montana ranches, Tim Blixseth, Yellowstone Club
Posted in Bankruptcy, Developers, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West
Posted in Bankruptcy, Developers, Eric OKeefe, Feature, News Desk, Recreation, Regional News, Residential Property, Timber, Topics, West
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