The billionaire Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, has become the largest owner of farmland in the United States by quietly buying up massive plots across the country, a new report says.
One of the richest people in the world and a self-described nerd who is known for his early programming skills rather than his love of the outdoors, he has been quietly snatching up tens of thousands of acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private farmland owner in America.
Gates’ portfolio comprises about 242,000 acres of farmland and nearly 27,000 acres of other land across 19 states, according to The Land Report, a magazine for land investors that tracks the nation’s biggest landowners.
The biggest chunks of Gates’ holdings are in Louisiana and Arkansas, where he owns 69,071 acres and 47,927 acres, respectively, the outlet’s research found.
The land is owned both directly and indirectly by Cascade Investment, the Seattle-area firm that Gates — the world’s third-richest man with a net worth of $132 billion, according to Bloomberg — set up to manage his massive fortune, according to The Land Report.
Cascade has declined to comment on the report “other than to say that Cascade is very supportive of sustainable farming.”
Agriculture is also a key focus area for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the massive charity run by Gates and his wife. The foundation aims to “support country-led inclusive agricultural transformation across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia,” according to its website.
It’s uncertain why Gates has invested in so much farmland or how his tracts are currently being used.
But to buy up so much land that is used for the farming of food it could make one think that Gates is expecting famine to occur in the future as described in the Revelation Prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse including the Black Horse of Famine.
The Biblical prophecies (Matthew 24, Luke 21, Revelation 6) foretell that a shortage of food in famine will happen as a sign of the Last Days indicating the nearing end of this age.
These events and conditions happening now are warning signs pointing to the nearing fulfillment of the Last Days prophecies at the end of this age revealing it’s time to prepare now for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ for His Church by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles who were authorized (Matthew 16:19) described how (Acts 2).
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