Bill Gates

#43 on the LR 100

With almost 250,000 acres of highly productive farm ground spread out over 17 states, the co-founder of MICROSOFT ranks as the nation’s largest private farmland owner. Much of Gates’s acreage was bought in huge tranches, including a group of farmland assets owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board that was acquired in 2017 and the 2018 acquisition of the 100 Circles acreage in the Horse Heaven Hills of Eastern Washington. Those two purchases alone total an investment of more than $690 million in farmland assets.

Much has changed in the world of nuclear energy since 1979 when the release of The China Syndrome coincided with a partial nuclear melt-down at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and heightened concerns about nuclear safety. While nuclear power never went away, its share of the world’s electricity generation dropped from a high of nearly 20 percent to less than 10 percent today, according to Bloomberg News.

Rank:

#41

Total Acres:

275,000

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Bill Gates

@ John Keatley

Bill Gates

#43 on the LR 100

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Bill Gates

@ John Keatley

With almost 250,000 acres of highly productive farm ground spread out over 17 states, the co-founder of MICROSOFT ranks as the nation’s largest private farmland owner. Much of Gates’s acreage was bought in huge tranches, including a group of farmland
assets owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board that was acquired in 2017 and the 2018 acquisition of the 100 Circles acreage in the Horse Heaven Hills of Eastern Washington. Those two purchases alone total an investment of more than $690 million in farmland assets.

Much has changed in the world of nuclear energy since 1979 when the release of The China Syndrome coincided with a partial nuclear melt-down at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and heightened concerns about nuclear safety. While nuclear power never went away, its share of the world’s electricity generation dropped from a high of nearly 20 percent to less than 10 percent today, according to Bloomberg News.

Rank:

#41

Total Acres:

275,000

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