
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…
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…
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…
Highlights from our March newsletter include: Insights and observations on coronavirus impacting markets. Farmers suffer as Saudis and Russians send oil prices plummeting. Land Report 100er brings 500,000 acres to market in Texas and New Mexico for $500 million. For up-to-the-minute reports…
Our January newsletter features a few of the major changes in this year’s Land Report 100 sponsored by Hayden Outdoors. Some of the key movers and shakers include: The Emmersons acquire 126,000 acres in California and move up from No.…
America’s leading landowners added more than 1 million acres to their portfolios in 2018. That’s one of the many takeaways from the 2018 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader. Five new landowners and one returnee were added to the list.…
Enjoy the fascinating stories of America’s leading landowners as the Magazine of the American Landowner presents the 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader. With 2.2 million acres, Liberty Media chairman John Malone retains the top spot; his good friend Ted Turner ranks No.…
America’s largest landowners continue to increase their holdings. That’s one of the many takeaways from the 2017 Land Report 100 sponsored by LandLeader. Liberty Media chairman John Malone retained the top spot as the nation’s largest landowner with 2.2 million…
More than 20 new landowners grace the ranks of the 2016 Land Report 100 sponsored. Among the new Land Report 100ers are California’s Fisher family, who founded The Gap in 1969. With some 440,000 acres in Northern California, the Fishers ranked No.…
The 2016 Land Report 100 is at the press. More than two dozen new entrants and updates highlight this year’s survey, which is sponsored by LandLeader, the nation’s largest network of brokerages dedicated to farm, ranch, and recreational properties. Other items…
Ever heard of a wind tax? Probably not. That’s because only one state has one: Wyoming. Although the Cowboy State claims to be a low tax haven, it imposed the nation’s lone tax on power generated by wind turbines in 2012. Not…