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re: LA: Bill Gates is spending money on huge swathes of land. Any of you Baws run into Gates
Posted on 11/14/23 at 4:41 pm to Covingtontiger77
Posted on 11/14/23 at 4:41 pm to Covingtontiger77
Big corporations and billionaires have been buying and selling farm land since the soybean boom of the 70s. Some of it they lease out, some of it they farm themselves. It’s the perfect way to move money around and show profit and loss in right places. My guess is Bill doesn’t even know owns property in Louisiana or anywhere else for that matter. 100k acres of land isn’t a drop in the bucket in the overall Gates portfolio and is grain of sand in a bucketful compared to the amount farm and pasture ground in the US.. This is bean counters doing bean counter things. These properties are LLCs owned by this holding company that’s under the umbrella of this corporation that is a subsidiary of Company X that’s owned by Corporation Y.
One property borders up to one of our family farms. It’s been bought and sold probably at least 10 times over the course of my life. I sold all the corn seed, 10% of the soybeans, and damn near 100% of the chemicals and fertilizer that went on it. I can say this they let their farm managers have free reign on what happens on the property, they spare no expense on fertility and irrigation, and take good care of the tenants on the properties that get share cropped/cash rented. A tract of one of the Louisiana properties actually sold a couple of years ago. The one I had the business on was for sell but the potential buyers backed out for whatever reason.
One property borders up to one of our family farms. It’s been bought and sold probably at least 10 times over the course of my life. I sold all the corn seed, 10% of the soybeans, and damn near 100% of the chemicals and fertilizer that went on it. I can say this they let their farm managers have free reign on what happens on the property, they spare no expense on fertility and irrigation, and take good care of the tenants on the properties that get share cropped/cash rented. A tract of one of the Louisiana properties actually sold a couple of years ago. The one I had the business on was for sell but the potential buyers backed out for whatever reason.
This post was edited on 11/14/23 at 9:52 pm
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Posted on 11/14/23 at 4:42 pm to Covingtontiger77
You do understand that he leases it out to local farmers, so he's not taking over anything, right? It's an investment.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 4:45 pm to Covingtontiger77
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Any of you Baws run into Gates
I did, in a chance encounter at a Super Stop near Ruston. Gates had run inside to grab a few snacks to enjoy on the road. I caught his eye and knew that he knew I recognized him. He seemed a bit bothered at first but was willing to chat for a bit before going on his way with his chips and such. He seemed cool enough, all in all.
This post was edited on 11/14/23 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:25 pm to Hoodie
Bill Gates is dead
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:27 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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You do understand that he leases it out to local farmers, so he's not taking over anything, right? It's an investment.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good politalk conspiracy circle jerk.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 5:48 pm to Fun Bunch
Old news. Plan is selling laboratory grown “meat” and running small farms out. MF’er is evil.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:58 pm to Covingtontiger77
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Looks like the lake here for food domination is control the MS River Delta as much as possible.
You could take all of the delta farmland out of production and it wouldn’t hardly be enough to move grain prices
The delta alone is 2.7 million acres
The US has almost 900 million acres of farmland.
Gates owns .00025%
Totally controls the food supply. And most of that land is probably being leased back to farmers
Posted on 11/14/23 at 7:04 pm to Covingtontiger77
Carbon Credits.
As an elitist land owner with access to policy makers he buys all the land he can and then has them create policy to trade carbon credits for future construction. He’s making billions selling “his” carbon credits. That’s the whole reason for global warming and climate change. It creates a market for the elite to make more $.
As an elitist land owner with access to policy makers he buys all the land he can and then has them create policy to trade carbon credits for future construction. He’s making billions selling “his” carbon credits. That’s the whole reason for global warming and climate change. It creates a market for the elite to make more $.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 8:23 pm to Covingtontiger77
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He who controls the food controls the population
Not to worried about that. Reminds me of a meme I saw..
First guy- I'm hoarding food
Second guy- I'm hoarding ammo
First guy- why aren't you hoarding food?
Second guy- you're hoarding my food.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:12 pm to DingLeeBerry
It’s Angelina near Monterey
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:25 pm to deltaland
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The US has almost 900 million acres of farmland.
Gates owns .00025%
c'mon man, you're ruining their fear boner.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:30 pm to Covingtontiger77
Anyone involved with these purchases or development of that land needs to be shunned by the local community. It’s the only way
Posted on 11/14/23 at 9:46 pm to LawTiger38
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Anyone involved with these purchases or development of that land needs to be shunned by the local community. It’s the only way
The local community is leasing it for their individual farming operations and making money of it from the purchases of fuel, parts, equipment, chemical, etc. it takes to run and maintain the property.
Posted on 11/14/23 at 11:00 pm to Fun Bunch
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Its also pretty...strange how he has become the largest private land owner in the US. What is his plan?
To make a metric frick-ton of money once the rest of the world's agricultural sectors go to shite.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 3:46 am to Tantal
I doubt the SOB even hunts.All that land,he surely owns some top tier hunting properties.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 5:51 am to Covingtontiger77
Posted on 11/15/23 at 6:32 am to Fun Bunch
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pretty...strange how he has become the largest private land owner in the US. What is his plan?
I believe Ted Turner owns over 2 million acres...
Posted on 11/15/23 at 6:36 am to LCA131
Posted on 11/15/23 at 3:10 pm to Covingtontiger77
Soylent Green is coming. I hope those that vote solely based on their maniacal reaction to mean tweets, enjoys eating their fellow neighbor.
Posted on 11/15/23 at 3:14 pm to Covingtontiger77
Just running those numbers in my head, it is about the same combined acreage as 3-5 good-sized West Texas ranches. About half the acreage of a smallish-county. About 3/100 of 1% of the ag land in the US.
This post was edited on 11/15/23 at 3:25 pm
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