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…
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Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
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
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Eric OKeefe, Feature, Land Report 100
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 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
Posted in Agriculture, Cattle, Feature, News Desk, Pacific, Washington
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