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In 2020 Eric O’Keefe was researching a mysterious recent purchase of 14,500 acres of prime Washington state farmland. His magazine, The Land Report, tracks major land transactions and produces an annual list of the 100 biggest US landowners.
Sales of more than a thousand acres are “blue-moon events,” O’Keefe noted, so this one stood out. And Eastern Washington has some of the richest, most expensive farmland in the country. But the purchaser of record was a small, obscure company in Louisiana.
“That immediately set off alarm bells,” O’Keefe says.
He assigned his research team to dig a little deeper. Soon they came back with the answer: The Louisiana company was acting on behalf of Cascade Investment LLC, the secretive investment firm that manages most of the huge fortune belonging to Bill Gates.
O’Keefe knew Gates had been acquiring farmland for years, mostly through various Cascade subsidiaries. The mogul’s holdings include large tracts in Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, California, and about a dozen other states. With the Washington state acreage and other recent additions to his portfolio, O’Keefe calculated, Gates now owns at least 242,000 acres of American farmland.
“Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, has an alter ego,” O’Keefe wrote: “Farmer Bill, the guy who owns more farmland than anyone else in America.”
The Land Report scoop made headlines. Many stories focused on Gates’ longstanding interest in climate change and sustainability and suggested those concerns might be driving the land purchases. Newsweek called him a “sustainable agriculture champion.”
Those stories dovetailed with earlier reports about Gates’ large land acquisitions in Arizona. Most notably, in 2017, the Gates-affiliated Mt. Lemmon Holdings invested in some 40 square miles of “transitional” land on the western fringe of the Phoenix sprawl. (According to The Land Report, Gates owns about 27,000 acres of non-agricultural land, in addition to his farm holdings.)
Some partners in the Arizona project issued a press release touting plans to build “a forward-thinking community … that embraces cutting-edge technology.” There was talk of “high-speed digital networks” and “autonomous logistics hubs.” That was all it took for many in the media to conclude that Gates was personally engineering the city of the future.
“Bill Gates has started laying out his plans for creating a ‘smart city’ in Phoenix, Arizona,” science-news outlet Futurism wrote. This high-tech metropolis “could be both a breeding and testing ground for futuristic technologies.”
In reality, the idea that Bill Gates was single-handedly reinventing farming — or designing cities of tomorrow — was almost entirely speculation.
“There’s a tendency in the media to personalize this,” O’Keefe says. “People want to know, ’Why does Bill Gates want all this land?’ ”
But hyper-wealthy people like Gates don’t make every decision personally, O’Keefe notes. “He has very competent investment managers.”
Given that Gates is the third-richest person in the world — with an estimated net worth of $132 billion, he falls in behind Tesla founder Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — those money managers have their hands full.
Investment guru Michael Larson, who has worked with Gates since 1994, runs the Washington-based Cascade Investment, as well as supervising the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s nearly $50 billion endowment.
“The arrangement is simple,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in a 2014 profile. “Mr. Larson makes money, and Mr. Gates gives it away.”
Larson and his team are famously tight-lipped. Cascade employees almost never speak to the press. According to the Journal, they are even discouraged from using Facebook and other social-media platforms. (Through a spokesperson, the company declined to comment for this article.)
Larson sees to it that Gates’ wealth is sensibly, even conservatively, invested. According to public records, the billionaire’s portfolio includes shares in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, a Coca-Cola bottling company, and the tractor manufacturer Deere & Co., among other non-flashy investments.
Larson also makes sure Gates keeps his eggs in a wide variety of baskets. His portfolio is diversified, in other words. And that’s where the land purchases come in.
Most of us imagine farmers tilling the soil that has been in their families for generations. But many farmers lease at least some of the land they cultivate. According to Bruce Sherrick, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about 60 percent of row-crop farmland in the Midwest is leased. The landowners can include investors like Gates.
For investors who know what they’re doing, agricultural land offers financial stability in uncertain times.
“Farmland has had a remarkably consistent ability to hedge against inflation,” Sherrick says.
And it tends to be “negatively correlated” against other investments, he adds: If the stock market is going down, the return on farmland is likely to be going up.
But farmland isn’t easy to buy.
“You can’t just say, I’ve got $30,000 saved up and I want to buy some farmland,” Sherrick notes. Large investors usually work with expert advisors to help them acquire and manage their agricultural holdings.
According to press reports, Gates’ farmland empire is mostly managed by a Cascade subsidiary called Cottonwood Ag Management. But the details are murky, and there is no evidence that the billionaire’s farmland-buying spree is driven by anything more than a desire to have a well-diversified portfolio.
“When Ted Turner bought his Flying D Ranch in Montana in 1989, that was his personal passion,” O’Keefe says. “Bill Gates’ land purchases look to me more like sensible long-term holds run by experienced asset managers.”
The same logic likely holds for Gates’ Arizona acquisitions. The largest parcel, a proposed 24,800-acre development known as Belmont, might someday contain 80,000 homes, along with offices, retail, industrial and logistics facilities. At buildout, the Belmont development will create a brand-new metropolis, one similar in size to the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, home to Arizona State University and almost 200,000 residents. According to The Arizona Republic, Belmont is projected to include up to 80,000 homes; 3,800 acres of industrial, office, and retail space; 3,400 acres of open space; and 470 acres for public schools. Cascade Investment doubled down on Phoenix transitional land two years later when it made a second major investment by acquiring more than 2,800 acres known as Spurlock Ranch in Buckeye for $25 million.
For now, though, all that “smart city” talk is more than a little premature. As Slate financial writer Henry Grabar concluded, the proposed town of Belmont is “not a city, nor is it ‘smart,’ nor does the Microsoft founder appear to be involved in any meaningful way.”
But, while Belmont might not be a smart city, it still looks like a smart investment.
The region west of Phoenix is booming. The nearby community of Buckeye has grown more than tenfold in the last 20 years. And the Belmont property is located along Interstate 10, the region’s major east-west artery, making it an excellent location for Amazon-style warehouse complexes.
There’s also a proposal to build a new interstate linking Phoenix to Las Vegas. That proposed superhighway would run across a 5-mile stretch of the Belmont property. The project isn’t yet funded. But if it ever gets built, it would boost the value of Gates’ land dramatically.
Today, the Belmont tract remains mostly empty desert. Most likely, it is just one more asset in Gates’ vast portfolio, quietly appreciating in value while the billionaire himself remains at arm’s length.
People involved in the Gates financial empire stress that the family’s philanthropic endeavors are kept separate from their investments and business ventures. But some of the software pioneer’s investments do reveal his grander goals.
Gates — who stepped down from day-to-day involvement with Microsoft in 2008 — has long been looking for ways to help the world’s poorest and to address the planet’s environmental challenges.
In 2006, he helped launch TerraPower, a company developing a new type of compact, ultra-safe nuclear reactor. In a recent episode of “60 Minutes,” Gates explained that zero-carbon energy sources like nuclear power are vital in reducing the emissions that warm the atmosphere.
“Without innovation, we will not solve climate change,” Gates said. “We won’t even come close.”
Since 2016, Gates has led Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a venture-capital fund that invests in clean-technology startups. The fund recently raised $1 billion, which it is pouring into companies developing hydrogen-fueled airplanes, zero-carbon building materials, and other green innovations.
His environmental bent also extends to farming. Gates has invested in Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, two companies producing beef substitutes, including the Impossible Burger. In his new book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates explains why raising beef cattle causes more harmful emissions than other forms of agriculture. He hopes plant-based substitutes will allow us to “cut down on meat eating while still enjoying the taste of meat.”
And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently launched a new division known as Gates Ag One. It aims to help poor farmers, especially in Africa and South Asia, get the “tools, technologies, and resources they need to lift themselves out of poverty.” If each acre can produce more food, that’s good news for farmers. But it also means we can devote less of the planet’s surface to farmland, which is good news for forests and ecosystems.
Meanwhile, American agriculture today is being transformed as farmers employ new technologies and Big Data to help them manage their crops. That can mean better yields with decreased use of fertilizers and pesticides. Which in turn means less impact on the environment.
Farms also have a role in fighting climate change. With proper techniques, the carbon from decaying plant matter can be kept safely in the soil, rather than entering the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide.
A new coalition of farmland owners, operators and environmental groups is working to come up with verifiable standards for sustainable farming. The group is called Leading Harvest, and the Gates-linked Cottonwood Ag is one of its founding members.
Leading Harvest envisions a kind of sustainability seal of approval certifying that a given farm meets environmental standards. The program could be an economic boon for farmers.
“In the future, farmers will be paid for sustainability,” says Sherrick, who sits on the group’s board. There will be incentives for things like using less water, fewer chemicals, and storing more carbon.
The group’s founding members are expected to spearhead the rollout of the new standards on their own lands.
Whether or not Gates personally directed Cottonwood Ag to get involved in the Leading Harvest project, the move makes both environmental and business sense.
“The new green economy will mean new opportunities for land owners,” O’Keefe believes.
“Farming is all of a sudden part of the solution and not just part of the problem,” Sherrick adds. He sees Gates’ involvement — even if indirect — as crucial in encouraging the industry to embrace the new sustainability standard.
If the nation’s largest farmland owner can show that farming can be both sustainable and profitable, that will make a big difference. Much like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation uses science and technology to achieve a number of worthy goals — including transitioning millions of people out of poverty, improving people’s health and well-being, and ensuring that all people have access to opportunities necessary to succeed in school and in life — Cascade’s farmland holdings also aim to further laudable objectives.
In January 2020, The Land Report announced the launch of a sustainability standard that was developed by U.S. farmland owners and operators. Called Leading Harvest, the organization’s goal is to create a sustainability standard that can be implemented across the greatest swath of agricultural acreage. Currently, more than 2 million acres in 22 states and an additional 2 million acres in seven countries are represented. Among the participants in the 13-member Sustainable Agriculture Working Group are Ceres Partners, Hancock Natural Resources Group, The Rohaytn Group, and UBS Farmland Investors.
Not surprisingly, one of Leading Harvest’s other inaugural members is a Cascade entity called Cottonwood Ag Management. Committing the resources to launch this all-important standard validates the assertion that Cascade supports sustainable strategies that advance resiliency and efficiency, retain talent, and reduce regulatory burdens. Although the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has no ties whatsoever to Cascade or its investments, it also has a farmland initiative: Gates Ag One, which has established its headquarters in the Greater St. Louis area. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Gates Ag One will focus on research that helps “small-holder farmers adapt to climate change and make food production in low- and middle-income countries more productive, resilient, and sustainable.”
While Gates is America’s biggest farmland owner, he’s far from being the nation’s largest landowner in general. That crown belongs to Liberty Media chairman John Malone, who has 2.2 million acres, according to The Land Report.
Billionaires who buy land are nothing new. Nowadays it’s just an especially hot topic because, well, media. But historically, billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Ted Turner are known to own a lot of land. But let’s also look specifically at Warren Buffett and his son, Howard.
Warren Buffett, whose net worth is about $85 billion, has been saying for years that buying farmland just outside of his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, has been one of his original, oldest, and best long-term investments to date. And if you look at tried-and-true investment advice, pretty much anyone who knows about portfolios will tell you that purchasing land will undoubtedly be a good idea in the long run. The Earth is not creating any new land, but with the population explosion we’ve seen in recent generations, land values have continued to rise exponentially.
So what else about the Buffetts are tied to farming? His middle son, Howard, is actually a farmer and author of the book “40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World.” It’s based on the idea that farmers will generally have 40 times throughout their career to keep the world fed and improve their harvests. 40! When you think about it, that’s really not that much. And that’s what is so powerful about the book. Global food security is a huge issue, and to think that 40 chances might be all you got, well, it makes you think.
This is the similarity to both the Buffett and the Gates families. Having money and power is one thing, but as philanthropists, they have the power to ignite movements and implement real change, particularly in the developing world.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is, in fact, an outspoken advocate of agricultural sustainability through genetic engineering, funding groups like the Cornell Alliance for Science, to help improve science communication and raise awareness about — and solutions to — global hunger. Being a part of the development of drought- and flood-resistant crops, while offering scientific advancements to livestock and crop harvest improvements for humanity, is clearly a passion of the Gateses; and while we have a ways to go, substantial improvements are being made every day. In fact, they’ve donated hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to African and Asian farmers specifically for sustainable agriculture. Of course, the topic is complex and full of gray areas, but the efforts and research are there, and you can read more about it here.
But what about Gates’ land in the U.S.? What will it be used for? What’s it like having him as a landlord?Will any of this be used for research to continue to improve upon global food security?
Gates’ personal investment vehicle is called Cascade Investments, with one of its subsidiaries named Cottonwood Ag Management, which is partnered with Leading Harvest. “Sustainable“ could be a marketing buzzword sure, but Gates’ push into futuristic “double or triple the yield” goals could be a promising sign for the planet without clearing additional acreage. Fighting the role of climate change is certainly a continuing trend as investors seek more alternative assets.
Leading Harvest is also partnered with FarmTogether, an investment platform that offers anyone direct access to U.S. farmland ownership. Fighting the role of climate change is certainly a continuing trend as investors seek more alternative assets:
While the challenge of feeding a growing global population with limited arable land seems daunting, I guess I’ve always been a bit of an optimist and personally put a good amount of faith, appreciation and trust into the sciences. Some people might look at this list and scratch their head with a “huh? How will we do that?” But I guess that’s what it’s all about. Keeping an open mind while taking a leap of faith and appreciating a new approach to long-term positive standards. Resilient, intelligent, forward thinking farmers? To quote Dr. Mark Lyons: “The biggest threat to agriculture is tradition.” It seems Gates has done incredible work in sciences and philanthropy for humanity and is doing what other intelligent billionaire investor would do: make more money while continuing his track record to use much of it for good. However, I have my doubts about Gate’s ulterior motives. I just can’t get past his actions as CEO of Microsoft. He was one of the most ruthless businessmen in recent history. He participated in hostile take overs, and used unfair business practices, including bundling software products with his operating system to drive the competition out of business. I my opinion a leopard never changes its spots. However, the organizations and ideologies behind it all in theory sound promising, and we shall see how it all pans out.
Who’s Really Behind The War On Meat? How Bill Gates Is Quietly Transforming America’s Food Industry From Within
Bill Gates is now America’s largest farmland owner. Here’s why he wants a world without meat.
When most people hear the name Bill Gates, the first thing that comes to mind is his work at Microsoft, or his climate change and vaccine initiatives. But it’s his investment in a different field that’s now turning heads: Agriculture.
Last year, it was revealed that Bill Gates had become the single largest farmland owner in America. While quietly amassing more American farmland than any other person on Earth, Gates has also positioned himself as one of the leading voices for “synthetic meat” and other meat alternatives — claiming they’re imperative in the fight against climate change.
Here’s the story of what Bill Gates is doing with all that farmland, and how he’s waging a war on meat to line his own pockets — all under the guise of climate activism.
All The Land Money Can Buy
As of last year, Bill Gates owned roughly a quarter million acres of U.S. farmland — nearly the size of Hong Kong. There are 70,000 acres in Louisiana for corn, cotton, and rice and 20,000 acres in Nebraska for soybeans. One of his potato farms is so big you can literally see it from space. Gates’ farmland stretches across 19 states — from North Carolina to Michigan to California — and is valued at nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.
For years, Gates and his ex-wife Melinda used a series of shell companies to hide their land purchases.
In 2018, for example, a company called Angelina Agriculture purchased approximately $171 million worth of farmland in Washington state. On the surface, Angelina was a small company based in a Louisiana town with 462 people. It had two employees. But according to records, the business was actually under the umbrella of a group called Cascade Investment — a private investment firm controlled by Bill Gates.
Gates is no stranger to agriculture; in the past, his foundation invested tens of millions of dollars into GMO technology. Those transactions included a $27.6 million investment in Monsanto — the agricultural company that would later be forced to pay out over $11 billion in settlements after it was found that some of its products caused cancer.
But Gates’ transition from simply investing in farming technology to becoming the leading owner of farmland itself is even more noteworthy when coupled with his shifting stance on meat.
The New War On Meat
As Gates was amassing swaths of farmland, the billionaire also emerged as one of the world’s most prominent and vociferous voices for synthetic meat and other plant-based alternatives. According to him, the transition away from meat must take place swiftly in order to save the planet from climate change.
“All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates said during a conversation with MIT’s Technology Review.
It’s so important, he says, that government coercion could be necessary to catalyze the shift. “You can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand,” he added bluntly.
In a separate interview with CBS, Gates elaborated: “Unless we can make the cow zero emission, which I’m not sure we can, we do need to get rid of those emissions. It’s not gonna happen overnight. The scale-up and the innovation still required there is quite large.”
If it were up to Bill Gates, the world would abandon meat for synthetic and plant-based alternatives.
But how do you make synthetic meat? And what goes into plant-based alternatives?
Well, it just so happens that “plant-based” meat is typically created with a variety of lentils, potatoes, pea proteins, soy and wheat — all things grown on farmland owned by Gates. Over the last five years, Gates has also invested tens of millions of dollars into leading plant-based meat companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods.
He is also among the single largest investors in “synthetic” or lab-grown meat, pouring tens of millions more into companies like Memphis Meats.
Shifting The Narrative
At the moment, the biggest problem standing in the way of a meatless world is the question of how exactly you get people to leave meat behind. And thanks to Gates, we now have an answer to that question: You convince the world that eliminating meat is necessary for fighting climate change.
While Gates initially argued that the shift away from traditional meat was imperative due to population growth, his new message centers on environmental activism.
Over the last five years, climate activists — with Gates at the forefront — increasingly began claiming the meat industry posed an existential threat to the planet, and that our reliance on cows for food was accelerating climate change.
Waging a war on meat was necessary to save the environment.
In 2019, for example, Gates wrote in his annual letter to friends and followers that the world must cut back on meat because cows “give off methane when they belch and pass gas. (A personal surprise for me: I never thought I’d be writing seriously about bovine flatulence.)”
More recently, in his 2021 book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates elaborated on the supposed threat posed by cows and their dangerous emissions.
Despite the fact that beef cattle account for just 2% of America’s emissions, they’ve found themselves in the crosshairs of the climate-change movement. “Replace cows with environmentally friendly alternatives” has become the prevailing narrative for a growing number of activists, including members of Congress.
But are the proposed alternatives — specifically synthetic meat — actually better for the environment?
Based on existing research, no.
In 2019, the University of Oxford conducted a study measuring the environmental impact of lab-grown meat as opposed to traditional cattle and found that real meat was actually better for the environment. In their words, “We conclude that cultured meat is not prima facie climatically superior to cattle.”
As Marco Springmann, senior environmental researcher at the University of Oxford puts it, “Lab meat doesn’t solve anything from an environmental perspective, since the energy emissions are so high.”
It turns out, giant labs trying to “grow” meat take up quite a bit of energy.
Robb Wolf, a former Research Biochemist and author who has worked with the Navy’s Special Warfare Resiliency Program, agrees. “It is an outright lie that these plant-based alternatives are better for the environment, or are going to reduce carbon footprint or carbon emissions,” he told The Daily Wire.
“This is a key piece that kinda gets missed in this whole story — that tissue needs to be fed. And the stuff that needs to be fed … has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t just magically grow in a vat.”
The Scientific Community Gets On Board
Despite the apparent lack of evidence that these alternatives are better for the environment than meat, the scientific community has largely joined in on the anti-meat crusade.
In addition to their stern warnings regarding meat’s supposed culpability in climate change, a growing faction of scientists has also begun declaring that meat is unhealthy not just for the environment, but for our bodies as well.
According to Wolf, once the war on meat became intertwined with fighting climate change, those in the medical and scientific communities felt pressure to join in, and scientists began touting the supposed benefits of a meat-free diet.
Despite overwhelming evidence that it’s nearly impossible to replicate the nutritional characteristics of meat, the narrative began changing. And even though study after study has shown that meatless diets are far more likely to lead to nutrient deficiencies, they have become all the rage in the scientific community.
Wolf further asserts, “It is well established in the literature that [meatless diets] tend to have pretty significant nutrient deficiencies… But the American Dietetic Association and the American Medical Association have made statements that vegan and vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the human life cycle. And there’s absolutely no data to support that — this is a completely non-evidence-based claim.”
Follow The Money
Despite the fact that diets with regular meat intake result in higher bone density and energy levels as well as better muscle tone, brain health, etc., meat was suddenly deemed not just dangerous to the climate, but dangerous to our health.
Take the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report, for example. The GBD is the authoritative study on worldwide health each year and influences food policy in nations across the globe.
In 2017, the report claimed that 25,000 deaths globally could be attributed to the consumption of red meat, and that meat was the least important of 15 “dietary risk factors.”
Just two years later, the same report claimed that red meat consumption was responsible for the deaths of 896,000 people and was now ranked fifth out of the 15 dietary risk factors.
According to the GBD, red meat killed 36 times more people in 2019 than in 2017.
The supposed findings were so stunning that six scientists at UC Davis conducted their own assessment, finding that the GBD report was “woefully absent” of any “cold, hard facts.”
The UC Davis scientists, including world-renowned physician Alice V. Stanton, concluded that, “These findings of additional causal relationships for red meat are not in agreement with other recently conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses.”
In other words, the world’s most important study on health and dietary policy completely contradicted the established literature on the topic.
How did meat suddenly become so deadly, so quickly? What happened in those two years? Could it have anything to do with the new playbook for climate change?
Or could it have anything to do with who funds the GBD report, and others like it?
In 2017, the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — the coordinating center for the GBD report — announced that it had received a $279 million gift from The Gates Foundation.
According to the University, they and The Gates Foundation, “share a vision — a world where all people can achieve their full potential — and through our partnerships we will improve the health and well-being of people here and around the globe.”
As the Gates Foundation puts it, “The funding will sustain IHME’s efforts as the coordinating center for the Global Burden of Disease project.”
Resources
nypost.com, “The real reason why Bill Gates is now the US’ biggest farmland owner,” By James B. Meigs; agriculture.com, “BILL GATES IS ABOUT TO CHANGE THE WAY AMERICA FARMS: THE COFOUNDER OF MICROSOFT AND HIS WIFE MAKE AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT ON THE 2020 LAND REPORT 100, AS AMERICA’S LARGEST PRIVATE FARMLAND OWNERS,” By Eric O’Keefe; marketwatch.com, “Bill Gates is now the largest farmland owner in America,” By Noah Manskar; agdaily.com, “Perspective: Bill Gates owns a lot of farmland, but that’s probably not a bad thing,” By Michelle Miller; dailywire.com, “Who’s Really Behind The War On Meat? How Bill Gates Is Quietly Transforming America’s Food Industry From Within: Bill Gates is now America’s largest farmland owner. Here’s why he wants a world without meat. “By Cabot Phillips;
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