Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is America’s top private farmland owner.
Gates and his wife, Melinda, own 242,000-acres across the U.S., according to The Land Report.
Gates’ farmland includes 69,071-acres in Louisiana, 47,927-acres in Arkansas, 25,750-acres in Arizona, and 20,588 in Nebraska, and property in 14 other states, the magazine reported.
Meanwhile, Business Insider noted Gates has a history of helping farmers.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 had pledged $300 million over three years to support research to help low-income farmers in Asia and Africa adapt to climate change.
And in 2018, the Gates Foundation invested $40 million in research to help breed chickens that lay better-quality eggs in farms in South Asia and Africa.
As of Friday, Forbes magazine noted Gates has a net worth of $120.2 billion.
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