I remember reading about this on HN earlier in the year — according to LandReport, "[t]he cofounder of Microsoft and his wife rank as America’s largest private farmland owners."
I think the gotcha here is that they rank as the largest /private/ farmland owners, not the largest singular owner of farmland (including corporate farming conglomerates).
I think this story went "viral" through this BusinesssInsider article from May 2021.
https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farml...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779681
I think the gotcha here is that they rank as the largest /private/ farmland owners, not the largest singular owner of farmland (including corporate farming conglomerates).
I think this story went "viral" through this BusinesssInsider article from May 2021.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...