Why Bill Gates Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland

Bill Gates made headlines for becoming the largest private farmland owner in the U.S. But he’s not the only one. Some of the wealthiest landowners including Jeff Bezos, John Malone and Thomas Peterffy are buying up forests, ranches and farmlands across the United States. Why? Watch the video to find out.
Investments in farmland are growing across the country as people, including the ultra-wealthy like Bill Gates, look for new ways to grow their money.
In 2020, Gates made headlines for becoming the largest private farmland owner in the U.S. He had accumulated more than 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states in less than a decade. His farmland grows onions, carrots and even the potatoes that are used to make McDonald’s French fries.
“It’s an asset with increasing value,” American Farmland Trust CEO John Piotti said. “It has great intrinsic value and beyond that, it is a limited resource.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 30% of all farmland is owned by landlords who don’t farm themselves. Buyers often purchase land from farmers who have owned it for decades; many of whom may be asset rich but maybe cash poor.
“The economic realities for them are typical that they’ve spent their life farming,” said Holly Rippon-Butler, land campaign director at the National Young Farmers Coalition. “Their retirement, their equity is all in the land and tied up in selling land.”
Private landowners are also making a profit by utilizing the land in numerous ways. Approximately 39% of the 911 million acres of farmland across the U.S. is rented out to farmers, and 80% of that rented farmland is owned by landlords who don’t farm themselves data from the Agriculture Department shows.
“The young farmers are just as happy to lease the land because whether you are young or old, it’s a business, right?” said Thomas Petterfy, chairman of Interactive Brokers and owner of 581,000 acres.
“You go buy a farm and you put that cash rental lease in place, you’re going to be looking at about 2.5% return on your capital,” Peoples Company President Steve Bruere said.
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Why Bill Gates Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland

[@squigglove]

They're not investing, they're hoarding. It's part of the "You'll own nothing and be happy about it" project.

[@stinksterrekerinski4450]

Right one.

[@sharonrichards1627]

The Great Reset. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHiWn4qvpLZoebM

[@OfftoShambala]

It’s about control of resources.

[@beep-beep]

@Rain Dance Ranch , absolutely! Our global population is exploding and those who are used to having everything to themselves are looking to keep it that way!

[@Revelation13-8]

And the sheeple are just going to let them do this ? dumb on ! everyone is doomed if they dont stand up and fight back A.S.A.P , today , not tomorrow.....

[@swampfoxtaylor5728]

"He who controls the food supply, controls the people".

[@TwistedTornsTirade]

Not me, gardening is fun and you can feed the community

[@beet111]

lmao who cares you would die without them

[@TwistedTornsTirade]

@@beet111 na im a loner but nice guess

[@concubinage]

Elon musk prefers to control memes instead.

[@TwistedTornsTirade]

however my worm Frank does complain so as long as I have my worms Im covered lol

[@eliara-thevoice8430]

Control the food....control the people. They aren't even hiding it anymore.

[@nolag7581]

They don't have to hide it because most people won't do anything about it.

[@quandingleberry445]

@@nolag7581stop paying taxes

[@travisstrickland7270]

Yep. And control birth rates with all this GMO new mrna engineered Food. Brought to by 😈

[@dreamliferenegades896]

You said it better than this video did in one sentence. Let’s get RFK in the white house, b/c he knows what tondo about this..

[@chrismarshall6647]

Control farmlands, control food supply then you control society.

[@bunk95]

A human kept as a slave’s version of control?

[@danielkoher1944]

You mean they don’t?!

[@brastmonkey]

“Why the rich invest in U.S. farmland.” To starve the poor.

[@Noam_.Menashe]

Vapid conspiratorial nonsense. Why would the rich starve people who they make a profit from? Communists need a dose of reality.

[@soybean70]

Not hardly

[@BeeBlot]

🎯

[@bobshagit9503]

ding ding ding

[@godfather7339]

Everything we feared that would happen in communism, has already happened in the US. In Russia and Ukraine millions of people were dying from famines for centuries due to climate patterns(famine every 10 years). The USSR came and ended these famines in just 30 years while fighting a world war directly against a major superpower, Nazi Germany, remember that the USSR defeated Nazi Germany and captured Berlin, not the UK/France. By the 80's even the US gov admitted that the USSR fed more food per person than Americans. As the USSR was dissolved illegally in 1990(70% of people wanted the USSR to stay in the referendum, however Gorbachev still decided to illegally dissolve the government) The old famine patters have returned. Thank the US and the American people for that who will with full confidence say how well capitalism works, while they eat thrash junk food.

[@kenmarchbanks4301]

As a retired multi generational farmer I can tell you this will not end well.

[@JerrysHouseMusic1]

I agree!!! But can you give me your thoughts on why its gonna end bad.. I’m curious.

[@softly1176]

why?

[@softly1176]

@@JerrysHouseMusic1 same, i need answers

[@furryballsploppedmenacingl8534]

@@JerrysHouseMusic1 ever see Soylent Green? That's why.

[@jaybee4307]

Bill Gates is a psychopath

[@petervenema1443]

So he can eat beef - and the world can eat bugs ????

[@vurujak]

Owning excessive amount of land should not be even allowed/legal.

[@formulasaltythunder4806]

Especially when you're not even from this country

[@7ak]

Controlling farmland and food is more directly related to life than controlling wealth. In my country, the big landowners had power by owning a lot of farmland, and the poor farmers were at their mercy. If their ethics go wrong, nobody can stop them. Excessive wealth is a backward step.

[@jeffelmore5614]

Most farmers here are treated like garbage too

[@samulikarjalainen6107]

I would argue that controlling agriculture is pretty much all that matters. You can't eat oil or muh green transit.

[@incelsarethemasterrace]

Wouldn't blame them. I too would slaughter all my cows if commies or bitcoiners came to get some food. I would laugh 'feed yourself now'.

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Congress should vote a indivual power limit law Where an individual is blocked from owning a certain number of land, big stratigic companies if he become too powerful

[@kiturselassie813]

The future looks dark

[@monarch3724]

When nothing else is left to buy , buy the means of food production.

[@iceman18211]

There is still a lot left to buy.

[@visitante-pc5zc]

Bill gates will soon microchip you

[@iceman18211]

Farming is a tough business, too much competition, too much downside risk, unpredictable prices. There are easier ways to get a higher return on capital. The reason Bill's interested in farmland is that his foundation has done a lot of great work on increasing yields on farms and working on food insecurity in the US. I wish him luck it's not an easy problem to solve.

[@iceman18211]

@@visitante-pc5zc lol why? there is no reason for him to microchip anyone. He has bigger things to worry about than the actions of me, you or anyone. He has lives to save.

[@montiro8999]

Half of the cropland is used for ethanol, half for meat feed production.

[@AstaKristjan]

I have more money in stock than any other single investment in my entire life. Translation: I’m not leaving.

[@simonbad]

Just bought more this morning dip!

[@IrenaDolinsek]

@@simonbad Good to remind people of this right now, you buy on fear and sell on greed or just hold through it all for the long term. It’s easy but lots of people forget.

[@LarsBergstrom-uh2eu]

@@IrenaDolinsek This could be easy if you are unemotional towards the market, I always want to be trading something at my early stages of coming into the market which made me FOMO resulting to me loosing a lot of money, at a point i had to use a coach who grew my $64k capital to $145K in 5 months.

[@Erinmills98]

@@LarsBergstrom-uh2eu Exactly, i will never go into this market without guidance, please who is this coach that helped you, can you possibly do a referral?

[@LarsBergstrom-uh2eu]

@@Erinmills98 My financial advisor is Kathleen Yanelli Carole. just go check her on the web, there really nothing much for me to say here.

[@oldman2800]

My experience as a farmer in Australia is absentee landlords make terrible farmers because of their remoteness to the day to day needs of managing properties properly. Paid managers do only what they need to do owners who live on site put in more hours and have more efficient and economic work practices

[@bunk95]

Slaves marketed as owners who live “on site”? You want human slaves to be made and kept, lied about with, “owner”? What if the slaves have to be tortured so they only appear to be able to do/etc.?

[@user-do5lx8br8k]

Austrália? Ai😢😢

[@MARC-FENIX]

A farmer should 100% own the land he/she is working on. Period.

[@Lordiboy14]

@@typenull3367 The state owning the land is true comunism.

[@TheRoadLessChosen]

@@typenull3367 how so?

[@frankie5373]

@@typenull3367 what?

[@frankie5373]

@@typenull3367 nothing you've said makes sense

[@theflagguy7704]

@@typenull3367 Imagine liking your own comment 😂

[@BruceNewhouse]

The real question is why are they buying up active farmlands and making them inactive? Could it be to cause a food crisis?

[@hetty7776]

They are going into the next phase of their plan.

[@DgurlSunshine]

@@hetty7776 STOP COMPLYING WITH STUPID

[@andreaberryman5354]

Just like the current "housing crisis" and "water crisis" scenarios. There was no such THING as American bottled water in the 1990's. You had bottled water from exotic places only. Our aquifers are being pumped dry, and Americans are being brainwashed that their tap water is toxic, only bottled water is "safe", meanwhile, investors buy city water lines because the wealth taxes that paid for them were cut. Last year, my city bill went up. Suddenly, there was this $30 'Wastewater Capital' being charged. In OTHER words, an investor was allowed to BUY the city's wastewater treatment facility. As a result, it is no longer done at-cost like government things are. It is now for profit. 😢

[@bigdaddyleroy1915]

read your history books. the Nazis promoted the farming community then exploited them to seize power. just part of the plan of democrats (modern day Nazis)

[@greatestever4087]

Population control, if there is not enough food they can say there are too many of us. Also climate change, the energy and housing crisis all seem to be vessels they are using to push population control.

[@downsouth00]

Own the food and the water and you have complete control of the people. People can refuse to use AI, buy phones, work at a corporation, etc. But no one can refuse food and water

[@words-island1011]

That's true. Also the thing that one who doesn't have the necessary needs fulfilled will never bother with the rest of the things... but this goes back as well if you look around🤷🏻‍♀️ we're already in a big mess but our attention is towards different things and no one observe it (probably yet but who knows if theyd ever see). The only sad thing is that the ones who fail to see and take care of stuff at the beginning are the same ones who complain constantly while not acknowledging the problem

[@adamperry4347]

To control the food, all the food processing plants blowing up, eliminating the competition.

[@lolawalsh9187]

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” -Henry Kissinger

[@chrisdadigger1018]

You are correct

[@alialhawary213]

So the jews control the world? 🤔

[@rudyhernandez6471]

Wow great point

[@recluseauhermitticus2033]

The question is what are people gonna do about it????

[@recluseauhermitticus2033]

Oh that's right. . NOTHING!!!

[@STECHGUY]

I can't believe we're letting them do this. We are a weak society 😔

[@captain4595]

That is what capitalism.If the buyer and the seller are both consenting,then third party has no role over it.

[@johnnylego807]

@@captain4595It’s not capitalism. This is a mixture of things, mainly a lot of criminals getting away with criminal activity. Causing farms to foreclose because they have made the production costs so HIGH, Higher than what is being earned for it, so they for close, forcing them to sell there property to the big guy. A lot of shady and illegal games are being played here.

[@godbyone]

Rich hate trump. He was for the farmers.

[@armbar1981ok]

Riiiiight!!!$

[@tudwortyjmcguern5689]

GREED

[@CraigNelson-gw6jw]

He helped cultivate Covid. And don't say he didn't I heard what he said out his mouth. Sad. And the Mosquitos yeah.

[@aaronmorgan2476]

can't beat time and old age.... the one thing no one can't escape. No matter what you do

[@vvvideos4971]

Boils my blood knowing that we all know what's happening but we can never do anything about it. 😞

[@cmr_77]

Pray. Prayer is what works

[@APW84]

of course we can! they are afraid of us, because the people have the power.

[@APW84]

we will see!

[@emma-xe2pt]

get the hammer and sickle. you know what i mean

[@ss-cw6he]

​@@cmr_77 time and karma will show effect soon

[@janbishop5542]

I personally know a group of 4 brothers who inherited their father's large multi-acre farm in the Midwestern US. They agreed to keep the farm in their family by leasing the land to other local farmers to use. They all have other jobs and live in other areas, but wanted to keep the land in their family as it had been for over 100 years. These are middle-class people who wanted to keep their land out of the hands of the mega-farms and wealthy investors in their area. God bless the families like this that can come up with this kind of solution. A few people owning most of the land anywhere is a problem...absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@wiseowl2020]

Farmers are in business to make money. And farmers can work large numbers of acres because of mechanization.

[@dylanfry7978]

We are a dying breed. My family alone has sold tons of acres because we simply cannot afford it. Land that had been in our family for over 100 years. Weather taxes, all the legal issues people don’t even know about and they are (mainly democrats) continually passing more laws which only benefit themselves. And they know no one will notice because you have to have a damn law degree to understand.

[@rzadigi]

@@dylanfry7978 yes it is surely the fault of the democrats that your farm is not profitable. If only you received more govt subsidies (farm welfare) then you could be rich.

[@dylanfry7978]

@@rzadigi I don’t know if your being sarcastic ? But Um yeah don’t get none of that. And with capital gains tax being raised to nearly 50% along with other less known things that are not reported and people don’t know, private land owners will be extinct. I’m not die hard republican bu any means, in fact many Republicans I have a distaste for as well, but I cannot stand what these liberals are doing to this country.

[@rzadigi]

@@dylanfry7978 a large increase in the capital gains tax has been proposed but there is no way it will pass. My republican family has owned farmland for years and it’s always been profitable. Land managed wisely is a valuable asset. Good luck to you and your family.

[@Mephibosheth52]

Their buying up these acres should be against the law.

[@EvidentlyFire]

Why? That would mean the government own the land.

[@realmclassic51]

@@EvidentlyFirerather them than gates

[@khalidrashad-xu8xe]

Nobody should have control on so much land , it can spell disaster to the country as a whole . For somebody like gates, the income of a million acres is peanuts while the same land can provide a living for a hundred thousand hard working, honest citizens.

[@MrShebaw]

"He who feeds you, controls you." -- Thomas Sankara

[@wv9529]

assuming always you dont have alternatives, which in this world you have thousands off.

[@relentlessmadman]

@@wv9529 watch for monsanto also

[@rzadigi]

So who is controlling me when I’m choosing which cereal to buy?

[@briansimmons8643]

Its happening because the governmnt isn't doing anything to stop it. Cap1talism has failed, not because of "inequal1ty" of the p o o r or any inherent "unfairnesss" to the low income but because of corrruption between the pol1tical elt1es and utra wealthy cr1minals like G a t e s, So rose, B e z o s, etc. Quite s a d.

[@briansimmons8643]

The governmnet is allowing this to happen and the meedeeuh is covering for it by gasl1ghting that its somehow a "good thing." Its all too much at this point.

[@HoneyBadgerMFF]

"We are in a food shortage" It will be okay all these rich people own so much farmland........wait.....they are not growing food? You would think the people who own the most farmland would be growing food during a food shortage. Interesting.

[@tassosplatis2143]

As if Bill Gates is a farmer. Just like how he's a Virologist

[@ashutoshtahlani5053]

He always talks about environment being destroyed and climate change but forgets to mention he's the reason. Maybe travelling in private jets cancels self criticism elements in humans.

[@Blazeww]

they wanted land to sell to foreign investors as they also gave away battery tech and oil...

[@kennethleitch8709]

100% only person who benefits from this is Bill Gates and Co.

[@kennethleitch8709]

@@tassosplatis2143 He thinks people are stupid and can't see what he is doing. He may be rich but he will fail.

[@electron2601]

I HATE Billgates. Not a good man.

[@user-kk2mz4wk3l]

Ask him how much he pays in taxes on that land and you'll find out we're probably paying him

[@alanawilliams557]

I appreciate that this segment tried to represent both sides of the argument, but the idea that farmers benefit from leasing rather than owning their land is laughable. The only reason it's "good" for them is it's often the only way they can access land at all

[@MrTaxiRob]

Owning with a mortgage allows you to eventually overcome inflation. It's like renting from yourself, but the rent never increases. It makes zero sense to rent in perpetuity when rent is always increasing. Those "cool landlords" who don't raise rent until you move out are all dead and gone.

[@numberiv1137]

The problem is nobody really owns anything here and even if you're not paying a bank loan on it you're still paying the government taxes for the usage of it. None of this material world was meant to be owned anyways but I digress

[@chrisp7110]

Agreed. Owning is actually cheaper than leasing. It also gives them the freedom to do whatever it is that they want to the land. Bill Gates is also saying how "complicated" it would be to let other countries get the vaccination formula even though the pandemic is a world crisis.

[@polite4canadians184]

It turns farmers into plantation slaves instead of property owners. Property has value, a lease is just workin' the land fo' Massa?, yes suh. 🌱

[@maloxi1472]

@@MrTaxiRob If you have to pay the State Gang each and every year, I'd say that you don't really "own" anything. People who don't understand that simple fact will be stuck forever, fighting both sides of the same rusty coin

[@leroyyorgason3891]

I was planting vegetables on one acre owned by another person. Each fall I put a lot of manure and shredded leaves on the land to make it more productive the next year. After 7 years the owner sold the land to a developer and all the effort I made to enrich the land went to nothing. I cannot imagine a young farmer leasing land and investing a lot of time and energy in truly enriching the soil organically only to face the possibility of losing that lease after a few short years.

[@ameliaa3114]

So sorry for your loss, how very unfortunate.

[@genkiferal7178]

agreed. I've done gardening work on 4 of the houses I've rented and it was almost for nothing. Good soil and good gardening layout can take years to get right.

[@makingcannabislegalagain9461]

You can sue for the time and effort and money spent that you put into it unless you signed a waiver

[@sd906238]

I bet the developer scrapped off all of the good top soil and replaced it with dirt. Then planted a crop of homes. My aunt lived across the road from an old man with a bunch of land. She said his kids were worthless and would sell his land before even putting him in the ground. The old man died and his kids sold his land in a heartbeat. Now a big school is on the land.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@sd906238 to be fair, leaving high-quality topsoil on suburban lots is often a waster - especially the spot the house and concrete driveway or patio or deck sits on.

[@yawaisnatural4344]

What does boils down to? Is y’all better start farming on your own land wherever you live! Problem solved.

[@VKing-di9lo]

One word - CONTROL! As has been mentioned many times, Control the food supply and you control the people. We should all be very concerned about what is going on here. The farmers of the world have already woken up and are protesting. The public should all be joining them.

[@Ikbeneengeit]

The rich are buying ALL asset classes. Stocks, derivatives, bonds, land, crypto etc etc etc. The rich are richer than ever before. This is not limited to just land.

[@adagio7635]

Truth

[@playtime5051]

@@adagio7635 War used to be for land. Now war is just good for business. We lost a lot of wars lately. George Orwell in the movie 1984 War is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. I served in the USMC in 1984. My ears are still ringing from the noise of the bombs. When do I get my slice of the pie? All my family's farm land has been taken by the banks. The town I was born in no longer exists. It is now just one huge field for monocrop agribusiness. The world population has doubled in my lifetime. All so the rich could get richer? Peace

[@sharischoll9411]

They could easily skyrocket prices of seeds and fertilizer, crop insurance, or taxes. Decrease price of commodities. Just long enough that farmers would go out of business while the super rich could still afford all the increases. Swoop in and "save" you by taking it off your hands. Wars all over the world plus infertility rates skyrocketing, but yet "they" keep reporting the population is increasing. Bull.

[@Ikbeneengeit]

@@playtime5051 I'm sorry to hear that. We, the little people are getting less and less share of what we produce. We will never get our fair share of the pie. We are 3x more productive for our companies than we were in the 70s but living standards haven't improved since then. Go back to 70% taxes on people with more than $500k income or $10 million wealth. It worked before, it can work again.

[@DsonicJ5672]

And the government is helping them by writing the checks

[@gregory-of-tours]

This sounds a lot like how land in the Roman Empire gradually moved from small famers to huge estates with semi-permanent workers who became serfs as the Roman Empire declined.

[@Jaapst]

Uhu and all the citizens went to rome (the cities) living in horrible crowded conditions as slaves because the welfare state (bread circus) could not be payed anymore…

[@asarmaak-heru5932]

History repeats itself

[@xblade11230]

There is nothing wrong with being a serf, you work and you get paid.

[@theuglykwan]

In Chinese history it is a typical trend for long lasting dynasties. It's usually at least a contributory factor in collapse of a dynasty. The start of a new one would usually redstribute it and lead to good times. After a few generations it would concentrate. When reforms were successful the dynasty might ascend again but if it failed it would move towards collapse. An example is the Song Dynasty. The reformer was removed and the court that was aligned with landed gentry colluded to pay no taxes so the tax burden shifted to the peasants. This was disastrous as the dynasty kept a weak military to avoid coups but was under constant threat from neighbours. Eventually they had no money to defend against the Mongols and they had to nationalize all land. It was too late by then.

[@ChrisBrown-hr6mc]

@@xblade11230 Then there's nothing wrong with slavery you work you get paid with food, shelter and the master let's you lease a horse. If your like a majority of American's today on the lower rungs of the ladder of all race's your just a slave they just allow you to perceive it different so you do it on your own accord

[@habibi750]

This video makes absolutely no sense. Nobody is taking the land away from them. The owners are the ones selling to willing buyers.

[@ted.8631]

because they have plans to take control of the food supply is why.

[@tigersforever4577]

Just when you think our country can't move any closer to feudalism, here we are: billionaires will now control our very survival.

[@ramezbishara6400]

'The Great Reset' is well underway

[@brucel4378]

it's about time

[@TheBooban]

Silence peasant!

[@izwanizi]

Please ready our horse.. peasant..

[@shleeb896]

Deadass it’s been like this for awhile

[@cindavanderzwaag7062]

I gotta be honest. I’m one of the farmers who asks myself everyday if it’s really worth the fight to keep the 200 acres we farm and the 40 dairy cows we milk. The public may soon find out what complete corporate farming looks like.

[@janbishop5542]

Please hang in there. There are many of us who appreciate what you do!

[@matthew9677]

What Jan said

[@marygee3981]

What state are you in? Farms can sell raw milk in PA. Can you build a small farm store? Check online to see the commercial enterprises small successful farms go into. See Russell Farms in PA or many in Vermont. Best wishes for your success!

[@cindavanderzwaag7062]

Thanks everyone. The only reason we still are farming is because the size, balance of animals is self manageable and self sustaining. When the next generation has to buy in and be taxed on the inflated land values it won’t be anymore though. I live in Iowa and raw milk is outright banned here. I’ve also found that most people will buy meat/cheeses direct once or twice but one stop shopping is just too convenient for busy people. They also liked to be entertained and have an emotional connection to their food and feel that the food is superior in innumerable ways if they purchase it from a farm. The extremely high expectations are what keep us from adding the stress of selling directly.

[@cindavanderzwaag7062]

@Larry Fage You’re kinda proving my point. People say they want small farms but in reality farmers have to build an “empire” to meet public demands.

[@jamespotts4848]

Monopoly is really what this is and the average people loses in the end. What are we to do when nobody can afford to live anymore?

[@dc_latername9064]

I have an amazing story. One day I was driving home, when all of a sudden the Lord came to me in spirit. I felt very close to Him. I knew if I asked him to play any song on the radio he would, I guess to bless my faith. So I said "ok, Lord play "Come as you are by Nirvana". I turned on the radio and the song started playing right there on the spot, perfectly… I started getting flooded with chills like a waterfall, crying, and trembling. He stayed with me for 10 minutes in my driveway. until I got outta the car. A couple months after that I started getting amazing prayers answered way more often, because it helped me quit doubting when I pray and I was lined up with biblical instructions. It's 6 years later and I still get answered prayers in Jesus name.

[@RK-zo9vt]

This reminds me of the past of Barron's in Europe a 1000 years ago. Kings, Earl's, etc... farmers were allowed to farm the land they didn't own it. They were also at the mercy of them as well. It didn't work. It won't work now.

[@johnklaus9111]

It will work now. Enjoy the foot stomping.. Humans will not survive long term... boring species.

[@geoffreymills9932]

That's exactly what is happening here, control over the land, food, and communities lost to the evil of the world, it's just a matter of time before we have nothing but holes in our jeans from begging on our knees, good thing we have our guns, for now

[@monsterrex8929]

Land annexation, a common operation at the end of the empire.

[@clover6480]

Don't cry for the farmes too early. Wait a few decades until there won't be any farmes left anyway, due to automatisation of the farming sector with the means of AI Systems. It'll be initially a sad thing but eventually a great achievement.

[@sdrobo]

Great Reset = Feudalism 2.0

[@vvytautas6051]

"Control oil, control nations. Control food, control people." - Henry (New World Order) Kissinger.

[@gavinanderson4147]

That's antisemitism

[@smith2354]

@@gavinanderson4147 *say's anything critical about Israel or a person who just happens to be jewish* >ThAtS AnTi-SeMiTisM!!!

[@dot1754]

@@smith2354 just say you're antisemitic

[@ecclecticeddiek4362]

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[@futuristiccat5636]

Reptilians too

[@geoffbirchall7552]

When the people discover what you’ve done, Gates! Your money won’t help you!

[@copperden]

“You will own nothing and be happy “ the super elite

[@han5807]

More like Communism.Thats the base of communism that everything belongs to goverment.

[@spacetoast7783]

Commies in the KZbin comments? It's more likely than you'd think.

[@jedahn]

@@han5807 What you're describing would be an obtuse form of nationalism. IE: everything for the good of the state. It's actually the opposite of what communism is supposed to do by definition. There really isn't any system that can't be hacked and people are the weakest link regardless of title.

[@arishemghoul9571]

I would love to take all of Gates and prince Charles possession just so they can feel happy

[@r3dp1ll]

the super parasites

[@blindeye1258]

"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy."

[@E4439Qv5]

Already do, and yeah-sure.

[@temimegraham1904]

This is the thinking of losers. Please stay away from people like BlindEye, he is literally blind.

[@sloth6480]

I know the peasants during the feudal serfdom days definitely didn't agree with that philosophy they're trying to push.

[@xstorm_8_shadowx]

@@temimegraham1904 Lol you must be the blind one if you cant see whats happening to middle class and what their agenda is. You’re either a troll or a propaganda bot. Enjoy whats to come.

[@soaceba]

Bunch of BS. If everyone stops affirming that saying then maybe we can do something better for ourselves.

[@davidgraham5040]

In Canada if you buy farm land in bulk like 1000 acre lot you can expect to pay around $7-10k per acre. However if you buy smaller lots like say 5 acres at a time that can cost you up to $100k per acre. I’d say this is the case in most areas in Canada.

[@metallooily7606]

Farmlands are future lifeline for all countries don't look down on farmers

[@drvinson8947]

Control the food, control the people. That’s why I grow my own food and livestock.

[@prozeeterps]

THATS ILLEGAL NO BAD YOU DONT GROW UR OWN ONLY BUY FOOD FROM MONSANTO YUMMY

[@magnumopiss244]

were coming for you bud. be warned

[@drvinson8947]

@@magnumopiss244 locked and loaded.

[@drvinson8947]

@Cry Bore what they don’t know won’t hurt em. 😅lol

[@drvinson8947]

@lady love I have 7 children.

[@focus7706]

I feel like we’re 20 years from the hunger games becoming real life.

[@Vienna1902]

More like 3-5 years, if not sooner :-/

[@nobunaga4720]

My god, you people love conspiracy theories so much. It's his choice or not if he wants to buy farmland

[@melvindrakeford3108]

@@nobunaga4720 famine is coming

[@nobunaga4720]

@@melvindrakeford3108 Source?

[@melvindrakeford3108]

@@nobunaga4720 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4CYf2ikhbWqfaM Bible as well

[@indriadrayton1132]

Who thinks this is a good idea that the super rich owns all the farmland? Leasing land for you to work on it for a rich landowner. My mom did that. It's called sharecropping. So... the States will become a nation of sharecroppers. This is horrid.

[@cykablyat473]

Farmer here. My dad bought a quarter last fall when it’s getting pretty rare for a farmer to be able to own ground and farm it too. Investment firms can pay whatever price cash it seems

[@akshatjain2775]

His best friend had a cool island. Loved children too.

[@deusvult8827]

@T D oh absolutely 🆘

[@Jerometk]

Who cares about children?

[@writerconsidered]

@@Jerometk You missed the joke. Think Epstein.

[@Jerometk]

@@writerconsidered I know who epstein is, and again ¿Who cares if they were "friends"? ¿Who cares what he did to those stupid children?

[@michaeloxlong6734]

@@Jerometk you don't care? Perhaps you're someone like him too

[@mellow6256]

Long story short: Billionaires buy the land from cash strapped elderly farmers. Then rent the land to young farmers thereby siphoning profit from the wealth transfer and creating young indentured servants

[@dreajam870]

What you said! And people still don’t realize it.

[@Koushi82]

correct that is what they call serfdom aka slavery

[@bluelightguy1]

Bingo

[@erich9779]

Its call capitalism

[@crhoads13]

that’s right

[@codingvio7383]

The best way to control the people is by controlling their food source.

[@wildhog7210]

Yeah, a long time ago, kings owned all the land; we're just going back to that. The rich are getting richer, and the middle class and poor are getting squished.

[@Currygoatpapi]

As I get older George Carlin seems to be right they own everything

[@TSARMOTAF]

...and they are coming for your social security too....

[@MsNickie1001]

@@TSARMOTAF yes they are. The rich are evil.

[@love.1995]

@@TSARMOTAF what will they do with our social security? Please forgive my ignorance.

[@TSARMOTAF]

@@love.1995 Give it to Wall St.

[@dante0spencer0domain]

@@love.1995 they want to scrap social security to put old people back to work ! capital knows no bounds

[@Leonora485]

"Make those purchases quietly" sounds like, "snatch the rug from under the small farmer, and knock out other wealthy competitors before they get their hands on it." Basically, sneaking and swindling.

[@wendyshoo3476]

Anything you acquire, you don't tell others until you have acquire it. Its basic common sense

[@cody1854]

@@wendyshoo3476 so you've never boasted or said," hey mom, I'm getting a new car"? 🙄

[@rokasdobrovolskis]

Wealthy rat race.

[@rerejones9095]

That is what they’re doing in the future there won’t be any ranchers and there will be quite a bit of land nobody will be living on and this all goes with agenda 2030 and everybody thinks it’s a conspiracy theory and it’s not it’s on the United Nations website

[@briansimmons8643]

But, but, but, the article goes on to claim its a "good thing." A "w i n - w i n" for everyone. You aren't doubting the meedeeuh are you? That's a thought cr1me you know.

[@vickyv6645]

Most of the land is used for grazing cattle instead of growing grain which can feed larger populations. Beef is tasty but is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions due to animal flatulence.

[@qurantimes6705]

The true question is: who is selling the land to him?

[@markanthony3275]

Own the land...control the food...control everyone who has to eat. That goes hand in hand with people who WANT to give themselves over.

[@recluseauhermitticus2033]

Question remains what are people gonna do about it??

[@truthseeker8899]

Yee idk how Zion feels about that . Mf might just create euphoria

[@al0len]

Regardless of what the future looks like, people still need food. And that food will come from the farmland these billionaires own

[@AntonioCostaRealEstate]

He will lose his shirt as usual. Others tried and failed. Ford , Ludwig the paper pulp baron. There is a thing about Brazilians thought.... They will find ways to sell you what it is non transferable through deed. And then they will make sure you , the buyer , lose every cent in making a go through the investment. And then it will either become public domain or private property.

[@foch3]

​@@AntonioCostaRealEstate He's not trying to succeed .

[@georgepruitt637]

No,Reagan said,We don't need American farmers! We'll IMPORT OUR FOOD!

[@adrienneb5445]

Yeah gmo-s and all

[@danielliu8735]

Have you tried soylent green ?

[@ejohnson3131]

They’re driving away farmers that used to produce food for regular people and now they’re growing “organic”, “small batch”, “private reserve”, etc produce and charging 10 times the price while spending the same amount of money to grow it. Greed!

[@calyorganic4002]

And also undermining organic standards like Bill Gates Oprah and Miley Cyrus investing in Apeel Sciences. the FDA approved the treatment of fresh organic produce with the organipeel coating which is basically a coating of a chemical concoction that makes the produce look fresh & that cannot be washed off. The epa determined that it was a fungicide. Other sources say it’s also a trans fat coating.

[@netizencapet]

CNBC is surprisingly rocking it when reporting on the socioeconomic pathology of the US at least since late 2021. I'm sure they're only a merger away from pro-Corporate brainwash. One flaw: the holdings of the top 100 landowners don't portray the wealth and property consolidation picture as effectively as the top 1 percent or 5 percent of landowners. Those figures would paint the picture in shades far more stark.

[@lilacdoe7945]

Doesn't this seem like we're going back to the times when a handful of aristocrats all of the land and the serfs are forced to work their fields?

[@cathiwim]

Bingo! Go to the head of the class!

[@alexoolau]

I became midwest farmland owner more than decade ago. I bought the land from retiring farmers whose children did not want to farm. Right after I purchased the land, several young men wanted to be my tenant farmers. I offered the lease to them at fair market rate according to soil quality on each pieces of my bland. Now they are in their middle age with six digit income from farming. They all said they would not be able to become farmers without my cash rent land for such long term relationship. Indeed, they treated me better than my own sons. But such loyalty is mutual beneficial business relationship. I am no feudal lord. They are neither my serfs. Freedom to move or end lease is right there.

[@ErnestKhamilov]

Open your eyes ceo’s are kings while the working man is the peasant

[@lilacdoe7945]

@@alexoolau sharecropping isn't comparable to big agriculture or billionaires buying country sized plots of fertile land. My grandparents were sharecroppers in their early days, it didn't resemble your partners experience, but it was nothing compared to corporate greed.

[@lilacdoe7945]

@@ErnestKhamilov ...and politicians are their vassals

[@richardstockham5847]

The value will soon be about the water rights.

[@Duprimarshall]

Came to say this

[@willjohnson211]

Water rights are usually sold separately, same as mineral rights. Where I live way back in the day farmers were able to put their mineral rights up for collateral because it was useless to them. Many of those farms went out of business in the 80s creating some of the nations wealthiest banks.

[@kaytrout3836]

Ding ding, that’s only a part of it, but a very essential part

[@bigamigo4863]

Nestle has already started on this monopoly.

[@PJ-qx5yt]

@@willjohnson211 Which is exactly why we SHOULDN'T allow this to happen... right?

[@The1ByTheSea]

The Gates family’s biggest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres), and Nebraska (20,588 acres), the report said. Their farmland is held both directly and through Cascade Investment, a firm controlled by Gates to manage his investments, according to The Land Report. ,also has large land tracts in Florida and is buying large land tracts in Northern Mississippi and in Alabama .In Nebraska , Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia ,South Carolina and Florida he has large herds of bisons:buffalo

[@willyjensen8595]

You missed the point, Land is the new gold standard.

[@TheRealHempress]

There should be a law that prohibits so much land ownership for one person or organization.

[@kafilkavich707]

Agree! This planet is a joke!! It's like nobody cares about anyone anymore, it's all about who can make the most profits and buy the most crap!

[@j.christie2594]

🤝👏...

[@iamasmurf1122]

That’s communism and if you want that live in china 🇨🇳

[@thevillain5479]

exactly or a cap on how many years you can hold it if its a huge amount

[@bunk95]

Fiction to use in attempts to cause what behavior when lying about a slave whos most likely being actively tortured?

[@TM-tl1nt]

So, we're going back to tenant farmers and the owner class. Sounds like midieval England. Yay....

[@goywonder7341]

Get back to work you serf! Lol

[@phanupongasvakiat337]

So when there will be a Backlash all around the World against the self-Chosen People, they can blame the Patriots again. Except this time They won’t be able to flee Europe to the US. They have their own country now so send them all there.

[@fivethreeone]

IT NEVER STOPPED EVEN ONE DAY, WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN, THEY DID IT THAT YEAR TOO

[@debbiehenri345]

And a lot of Britain is still like that to this day. Friends of mine lease a farm from The Queen. There are thousands of acres in the hands of the gentry like the Duke of Buccleuch and the occasional Arab sheikh. Neighbouring farms all around me here in Scotland are leased. I was told one piece was to go up for sale locally, an area I was very interested in - and it was bought before it even went on auction. Only a couple of weeks ago I was watching a video that said something like 196,000 acres of American farmland is in the hands of the Chinese. How does that even happen? The trouble is, it's now common knowledge that farming practices must change in order to prevent continued erosion, etc, with rewilding at least a part of it to safeguard soils, water courses, and wild species. How is that going to be possible if the likes of Bezos wants to continue making money out of land by leasing to farmers and driving up the value of land?

[@redrustyhill2]

Welcome to modern feudalism. It exists in every Industry. Huge hedge funds and private corporations are silently buying up all commercial, industrial, residential, and agricultural real estate at an alarming rate. Blackstone and invitation homes are a couple of the biggest. They are in bed with the government. These covid lockdowns and eviction moratoriums were nothing but a clever strategical land grab for the ultra wealthy. Forcing small businesses and small landlords to go bankrupt, buying the property up for pennies on the dollar from the banks.

[@davewolfe2668]

1) own the pharmacies 2) own all the food sources 3) contaminate the food source 4) medicate the sick from food contamination 5) profit

[@RussiaBoatz]

Now he’s claiming he’s ‘giving away all his money’ to drop off the ‘rich people list’ by putting all the money into HIS foundation. 😂😂😂🤡😂😂😂

[@darrenshore5853]

In the current climate of increasing shortages this is getting scary that the super elite are buying up agri land, adds to concerns of what's coming next

[@prince_ofmadness]

Money is going to be useless and assets will be the new currency

[@JazenValencia]

The whores they own in the Government will tax us out of any farm land. "You will own nothing and be happy".....or we'll throw you in a forced labor camp for wrong think.

[@AYVYN]

Just give it 30 years and the old politicians and CEOs will be dust in the wind

[@mikemierspadios7036]

@@prince_ofmadness True government is printing more of it.

[@vickiparkway6402]

They want to control what we eat and how much we eat. Like in the bible Revelation 6:5-6 a days wages for a loaf of wheat bread. The 4 horsemen of Revelation

[@delavalmilker]

Who owns the land, especially farmland where food is produced, may seem a distant concern to most people. However it's important to remember that some of the biggest revolutions involved questions of land ownership. (Too much land in too few hands). Such as the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. The amount of land in the U.S. seems enormous. However only a fraction of it is suitable for food crops. And that is shrinking every day, because of land being converted to homes and developments. Because good farmland is often located next to expanding urban areas. As a lifetime (and active) farmer of 66 years old, and a bachelor, I am increasingly concerned about what happens to my farm in the future.

[@WillBilly.]

I would love to start a farm but with no farmers or land in my family im stuck driving trucks and dreaming.

[@Peter-ix1ym]

Are you in England?

[@monsterrex8929]

Land annexation, a common operation at the end of the empire.

[@thepitpatrol]

Let me tell you about our farming. We grow for Tyson. We have been growing for around 30 years. We aren't paid out and probably won't ever get to pay out. About the time you start to get paid out they want you to do thousand and thousands of dollars in updates.or they cut you off. We have gone 8 years with no raise (think how much your chicken has gone up, especially during covid) we got a 1 cent a pound a few weeks ago. In the last year our propane bill has doubled and our equipment is up at least 30% if you can get it. Here is my advice. Buy local. Farmers Market and such.

[@iananderson1231]

Bill gates is a control freak, an egotistical sociopathic narcissistic psychopath, this land will give him even more power over the remaining serfs after agenda 21, world recession and the plausible world war that is predicted. His motives are not altruistic at all, he has no interest in us 'Plebs' except that we should and will serve him, those of us that are left. The term Hegemonic Plutocracy springs to mind, Democracy such as it is at present is dying, it has become a fallacy!

[@twistedpixel2558]

It's simple. You don't pay taxes on debt. A huge piece of farmable land is worth a hundred mil or so, they take out a loan to buy the land while keeping the rest of their wealth in equity, stocks, businesses, etc, and pay almost no tax. You can't pay tax if you're showing a net loss.

[@paulsholar9356]

If farmland is so valuable, then why is it being sold off? There must be something more valuable to do with that land.

[@MoltenMouseMetal]

Wait until they start putting houses / hotels on their Monopoly squares.

[@jasonmartinez9051]

Best KZbin comment ever!!!

[@gilbertplays]

You only do that if there is a demand of housing that people can live in.

[@jasonmartinez9051]

@@gilbertplays A demand for housing? Oh yeah, there's plenty of that! :)

[@georgepruitt637]

And all the while,our taxes go up because they paid too much,and then roll it over after a couple of land improvements.

[@veganpotterthevegan]

@@jasonmartinez9051 Not where most farmland is located.

[@bethanya99]

Sounds like we're getting into a feudal system. Lord's own the land, the fiefs work it, and everyone is at the mercy of the choices of a few powerful men.

[@copainspammeur404]

You hit the nail rig right on the head

[@bbd121]

Mind = blown

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

Capitalism is just that, they just changed the name, people enjoy their own slavery.

[@ethgod]

As it should be

[@bishnoi969]

U r saying it all wrong. Lord owns the land and labourers work at their factories

[@matturquhart2531]

Second biggest thief of humanity. It is like sitting in your living room while a thief walks in and starts stealing everything and you just sit there and let them.

[@sidwilsonfan777]

You can purchase all land you want, but remember you need to pay taxes for that land every year, so land never will be completely yours. As soonest you don’t pay the taxes the government take the land.

[@johnbarker5009]

We're on the verge of mass conversion of farmland from ownership by farmers to ownership by large corporations.

[@vilear]

Looks indeed like that. Farmers are just working for companies which set the prices as they please. Modern slavery....

[@johnbarker5009]

@@vilear that's right. The banks dictate what farmers do on the basis of minimizing risk to themselves rather than maximizing potential profit. The average farmer is approaching retirement, is heavily leveraged, and no one without very deep pockets can afford to buy them out.

[@panagenesis2695]

Worked for Ancient Rome, no?🤣

[@DorianPaige00]

The clowns are already here!

[@Tadicuslegion78]

"Tell me you're a supervillain without telling me you're a supervillain"

[@tony_5156]

How is that related to ducking anything?

[@comeseetheviolenceinherent579]

@@tony_5156 🤦‍♂️

[@fivethreeone]

WTF WOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR MONEY DONT BE STUPID

[@oneconcerned]

Tadicuslegion78, someone once said "the more things change, the more they stay the same." Basically, like someone said, it's like the Medieval period with serfs working land owned by someone else. “WARNING you may become informed” kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnK8k3mqj9plr8U.

[@comeseetheviolenceinherent579]

@@debbiemac7978 I agree but when you use your success to tyrannies people you are a evil SOB. Having money doesn’t mean you know what is best for others.

[@NsskMedia]

Control *FOOD* and you control people. - Control *Oil* and you control nations - _Henry Kissinger_

[@007vissa]

It’s like how it was in medieval ages. Duke, marquess, earl etc where they own land and they collect fees from people who will actually farm. Without any hard work they have created additional generational wealth.

[@amrswalha]

"you will own nothing and be happy" world economic forum

[@SorryStamin]

These people clutch their pearls when they hear of socialism or communism but praise a godlike class controlling a rentier economy.

[@alexandriabrown4117]

riiiight lol. Tell me who's going to be happy with that one.

[@kaputasri]

It wont go as they plan.The reason is people need a reward to work towards if people own nothing they wont just be productive and they will live off welfare.This big wigs need to get their heads examined theres a reason why the soviet union collapsed.

[@SorryStamin]

@@kaputasri okay not a single economist would say that's why the Soviet union collapsed, they still had monetary systems and incentives, complex ones towards the end at that.

[@sharischoll9411]

World Economic Forum, Hans Klaus, Alfred Hitchcock clone.

[@PlantingTheFuture]

"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy!" World Economic Forum propaganda video from 2016. Their dystopian dream is a nightmare for us.

[@user-rb7ns9yj5y]

Ownership is a human created figment of our imagination to make us feel dominant and in control. We aren't Destined for this planet

[@playtime5051]

@@user-rb7ns9yj5y when you own something - it really owns you. We are tied down by the things we own.

[@rickmortar7886]

It's a nightmare for those of us who do not like mindless consumerism and lazy culture. For those people whose lives revolve around gaming consoles and netflix, however, it is a paradise.

[@jefftheindianchief8279]

@@user-rb7ns9yj5y What do we own then? The clothes on our backs? The houses we've spent years trying to pay off? The food we've stocked our pantries with? As individuals, as consumers, as adults, when do we stand up for what we believe in & when do we sit down, shut up & accept the status quo?

[@Matt-rw9py]

@@user-rb7ns9yj5y Slaves don’t own anything that’s why they’re slaves. They’re dependent on their masters. I wonder if those billionaires and millionaires will give away all their property and live like the rest of us?

[@user-lw7il2zx8u]

After all this some people still are believing that the USA is a open society . The people are attracted by the USA in the believe that they will rich.

[@paulnewsome6289]

This is like the days of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl when small farmers were evicted from their homes by Bankers and Corporations. Anyone who has never viewed the movie 'The Grapes of Wrath' or read the novel by John Steinbeck should immediately do so. The songs of Woody Guthrie are still ringing in the ears of the masses, dispossessed and denied a home by the greed of Bankers, Corporations, Millionaire and Billionaire fat cats hoovering up millions of acres of land they do not need out of pure greed and disdain for the common citizen worker. And if we regard the plight of small farmers as atrocity, what about the tens of millions of homeless, discarded, forgotten people dumped in trailer parks and ghettos all across the U.S. The American NIGHTMARE!

[@thomasdarling2553]

I hear Bezos plans to by a jungle. He'll call it Amazon forest.

[@jordanz434]

Correction: Amazon Rainforest ®

[@my3dviews]

If he actually did buy it, it might be managed better than it is now.

[@AntonioCostaRealEstate]

He will lose his shirt as usual. Others tried and failed. Ford , Ludwig the paper pulp baron. There is a thing about Brazilians thought.... They will find ways to sell you what it is non transferable through deed. And then they will make sure you , the buyer , lose every cent in making a go through the investment. And then the alienated land will either become public domain or private property.

[@AnhNguyen-hn9vj]

lol

[@georgepruitt637]

@@jordanz434 Correction: Future Amazon Desert!

[@teddyvoncruger6467]

Business model: Create unaffordable farmland and then lease it out at "affordable" rates. Self appointed humanitarians solving a problem they them selves created.

[@Cassismithxoxo]

This comment

[@rzadigi]

If the rent isn’t affordable then no one will pay it. Tenant farmers are not dummies.

[@vicpetrishak7705]

Bill Gates is a man of Success not of VALUE !

[@jamespotts4848]

It would be nice if these people cared about other people's lives like they love they're own life, they want it all for themselves but people need food and shelter to, they don't care.

[@rabbitcreative]

> It would be nice if these people cared about other people's lives like they love they're own life That's precisely what us vegans are saying. All of this crazy stuff is happening because so many humans believe animals are property.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside" ~Grapes of Wrath

[@jarednovel]

The bigger picture here is they want to control sources of food and basics so they can control you. For instance by causing artificial shortages when you refuse to behave ... Just last year they told potato farmers to destroy their harvest to cause shortages...They also encouraged dairy farmers to discard milk instead of making cheese with it... They have also been targeting meat consumption ....They want you to eat plants only or lab made burgers which can alter your biology irreversibly..mess your hormones etc.....

[@kristingallo2158]

These same people are the ones crying the earth is overpopulated have enough land and room to feed and house a million people. Hypocrites are trash

[@anthonymorales842]

Geez ya gotta wonder

[@capitalizingondumbmoney1679]

@@jarednovel would you rather china own it?

[@Tre16]

@@kristingallo2158 we are all hypocrites.

[@js.goldklang]

The problem with leasing is that it gives no incentive for a farmer to invest in the land by using perennial crops and actually building the soil

[@AletheAce]

A phenomenon called Tragedy of the Commons

[@bend.3633]

That's a very good point.

[@jacob.brandw]

Long term lease…Smart businessmen make the best profits by the increase in value of the land, not the lease itself. They’d prefer the farmer to do whatever is healthiest to the soil and crops because that can increase the value of the land/soil…

[@js.goldklang]

@@jacob.brandw I mean how long term can a lease really be though? They would prefer the farmer do whatever is healthiest but that doesn't mean the farmer actually has incentive to do that. If the farmer wants to plant fruit trees they wouldn't start producing fruit at the very earliest 3 years depending on the cultivar and that probably won't be at full vigor. If you want to plant a chestnut tree (which we desperately need to start investing in) it won't start producing at full vigor for 10 years. That's so many years of lease to not make any money from a crop, just to potentially stop working the land when the lease is over. Most annual crops by their nature "mine" soil fertility, especially when grown in tilled monocultures like is widely practiced in modern ag. This contributes to climate change, ecosystem collapse. We need to invest in perennial crops that build soil instead. But leasing provides a disincentive for that for the farmer. To maximize profits for the duration of the lease they are better off pumping out annual crops like corn/soy.

[@tim197]

@@jacob.brandw watched a video yesterday about the change to regenerative agriculture which is the future we need in the industry. Farms that grow regenerative are able to sell carbon credits for each acre they farm however to do so they’re on a 10 year contract and that soil has to be farmed regeneratively and not be tilled for that time. If the land is leased than it’s a huge risk to sign that contract and therefore farmers don’t have the incentive to move to bore beneficial practices.

[@user-qq5pu5xc6o]

Cause that's where the money is ... Land is life! It's where you can build stuffs, you can farm, you can rent, you can even find treasure mines on your farmland! That's money!

[@litestuffllc7249]

In most areas Farmland is not taxed or is taxed at a low rate this is the biggest reason to choose farmland as an investment. It has the ability to rise in value more if more and more farmland is lost to other purposes or farms close due to fiscal stress; such as inflation.

[@That_nigga]

Private ownership of land is not ideal, that’s why we have people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos owning so much land for themselves when there are some people who can’t afford land. I believe the government should take away land without compensation for the LAND, but should compensate you if the property on the land was in no way subsidised by the govt.

[@janethofmann1401]

That was a surprisingly good story. Farmers currently keep 14 cents of every Ag dollar. That’s not enough to live on. We need resilient farms with direct supplier to consumer relationships to make farming profitable enough so that farmers aren’t forced to sell their lands to people with bad motives. Make a difference-buy directly from farmers.

[@lupobouguereau8777]

Hmmm ... Sounds like there`s going to be an incoming manufactured food shortage .

[@berniedoodle5134]

That's the end goal. Indian government just passed agriculture laws that allow for contract farming, eliminated hoarding laws and regulations and preparing to set up private markets. One big corporation just happened to be building massive storage facilities just years before the laws were passed. The big corporations want to control the food supply. Check out farmers protests going on in India for almost a year.

[@chaunceysimmons4030]

@@berniedoodle5134 native American Indians are from India

[@berniedoodle5134]

@@chaunceysimmons4030 lol what

[@chaunceysimmons4030]

@@berniedoodle5134 I'm Native American we don't like being called Indians it's the Native American government

[@berniedoodle5134]

@@chaunceysimmons4030 lol

[@redpillbluepillnopillnopar5563]

Because a a financial crash is coming and land always holds its value.

[@notimportant3914]

I live in ohio...surrounded by crops and farms. I'm seeing more and more solar farms. It's truly disturbing and "twilight zone" feeling, driving by seeing acres and acres of solar panels for miles. Gives me anxiety. You start to think about the money and potential profits.

[@calyorganic4002]

What is the fear? That too many people hav low cost electricity?

[@notimportant3914]

@calyorganic4002 bad for the soil, for one. Looks tacky..