Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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According to Land Report 100, Bill Gates has purchased 270,000 acres of farmland over a dozens states. Gates company, Red River Trust, recently purchased 2,100 acres for $13.5 million from a wealthy North Dakota potato farmer. North Dakota’s Agricultural Commissioner, Doug Goehring, said that many people feel they are being used by the ultra-rich who buy land but do not share the State’s values. Residents are questioning the motive of these large purchases of farmland by people like Gates. Good question.
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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Where do you think he should invest?
You can’t buy what aint for sale BTW
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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Lol, maybe he’s not into sports cars.
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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Everybody has to eat. Gates is motivated by greed and control. I don’t know which is more important now but my money is on control. Power is a worm that feeds on conscience.
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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He needs a place to grow the bugs he wants US to eat.
Once he gets the world population down to.500 million.
Hey, maybe THATS why he wants to control food production.... Yep!
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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All you have to do is read to find the answers to the questions. He has already made it clear that they are using the land to develop different strains of seed that are appropriate for use in Africa. Seeds that are resistant to different pest and climate vectors that reduce production.
As far as making money goes....hopefully you are aware that he is in the process of giving his fortune away. Not trying to increase it.
The 270,000 acres he owns doesn't even move the needle on the 900 million acres of US farmland Bill Gates has done more, to help more people, than anyone else alive today and probably ever, but a lot of people rremain terrified of him. He's a saint not Satan. Keith
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Re: Why is Bill Gates buying so much farmland?
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He needs a place to grow the bugs he wants US to eat.
Once he gets the world population down to.500 million.
Hey, maybe THATS why he wants to control food production.... This. He aint no saint. lol he wants population control. Why do you think his wife divorced him recently? HE was a a good friend of Epstein and visited the island like all the other lizards did.
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