
The cofounder of Microsoft ranks as America’s largest private farmland owner. By Eric O’Keefe Call it a hunch, but the story did not jibe. I scanned the headline for the umpteenth time and then read and reread the pertinent details.…
The cofounder of Microsoft ranks as America’s largest private farmland owner. By Eric O’Keefe Call it a hunch, but the story did not jibe. I scanned the headline for the umpteenth time and then read and reread the pertinent details.…
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…