They are doing to farmers what they did to cops. Push out good ones until you can replace them with what you want there. This is just another way of seizing the means of production.
Gates owns a small, small percentage of the arable land in the country, and there's no indication he's acquiring more. At all angles it looks like the guy who runs his investment did what a lot of wealthy people do, put some of it into land, because it's recession/inflation proof.
He's not though. He's the biggest farmland owner. He has around 250k acres - but even his ownership levels of farmland are a small percentage of the total farmland in the US - the total number of farmland in the US is 879 million acres. He has a quarter of a million. He's hardly a threat to farming, at less than one percent ownership. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of land to own, but it's more a cashcow (pun intended) because leasing it is pretty lucrative.
Corporate ownership of farmland is surprisingly low, according to everything I looked up when the "Bill Gates is buying all the farms!" meme started. The latest statistic is that 90% of all farms in the US are family owned and operated. The census, when it's released, should show updated numbers, but the whole "corporations own all the farms!" seems to be a myth pushed by the farm subsidy lobby. There's more foreign ownership of farmland - 30 million acres, that's leased to farmers.
There's more corporate ownership of acreage for lumber, than farming, if I remember correctly, and it was 8 million acres.
Excellent point and one more reason to learn how to grow your own food at home. Whatever unfolds will happen, but having the skills to remain off the grid when it gets ugly will likely save the life you, your family and even your neighbors.
That would be an excellent point except it takes on average 3.25 acres to sustain a person. That's over 700k sq ft of arable land for my household alone. Even with vertical planting, 16+ acres well beyond my current plot.
Look up videos and channels dedicated to homesteading. I am truly impressed at how high tech harvesting has become. I know a great channel with a family that specialized in living off the grid, growing all their food for the entire year without outside help. There's an entire community of these people in basically every video sharing site, so once you find them there's dozens of them to learn and share ideas from.
The one I watch uses jarring to preserve crops as foods year-round. I know it technically isn't OFF the grid, but glammed up farming has many ways to produce foods including freezing. The space does add up in some form however, so I do agree with your assessment.
They are doing to farmers what they did to cops. Push out good ones until you can replace them with what you want there. This is just another way of seizing the means of production.
Exactly. And old Bill Gates will be right there to come in and swoop up that land.
Gates owns a small, small percentage of the arable land in the country, and there's no indication he's acquiring more. At all angles it looks like the guy who runs his investment did what a lot of wealthy people do, put some of it into land, because it's recession/inflation proof.
Being the largest individual landowner in America is impressive no doubt. But I’m sure the largest corporate landowner puts Bill’s farm to shame.
He's not though. He's the biggest farmland owner. He has around 250k acres - but even his ownership levels of farmland are a small percentage of the total farmland in the US - the total number of farmland in the US is 879 million acres. He has a quarter of a million. He's hardly a threat to farming, at less than one percent ownership. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of land to own, but it's more a cashcow (pun intended) because leasing it is pretty lucrative.
Corporate ownership of farmland is surprisingly low, according to everything I looked up when the "Bill Gates is buying all the farms!" meme started. The latest statistic is that 90% of all farms in the US are family owned and operated. The census, when it's released, should show updated numbers, but the whole "corporations own all the farms!" seems to be a myth pushed by the farm subsidy lobby. There's more foreign ownership of farmland - 30 million acres, that's leased to farmers.
There's more corporate ownership of acreage for lumber, than farming, if I remember correctly, and it was 8 million acres.
Excellent point and one more reason to learn how to grow your own food at home. Whatever unfolds will happen, but having the skills to remain off the grid when it gets ugly will likely save the life you, your family and even your neighbors.
That would be an excellent point except it takes on average 3.25 acres to sustain a person. That's over 700k sq ft of arable land for my household alone. Even with vertical planting, 16+ acres well beyond my current plot.
Look up videos and channels dedicated to homesteading. I am truly impressed at how high tech harvesting has become. I know a great channel with a family that specialized in living off the grid, growing all their food for the entire year without outside help. There's an entire community of these people in basically every video sharing site, so once you find them there's dozens of them to learn and share ideas from.
The one I watch uses jarring to preserve crops as foods year-round. I know it technically isn't OFF the grid, but glammed up farming has many ways to produce foods including freezing. The space does add up in some form however, so I do agree with your assessment.
I don’t think you can move and unload a farm as easily as you can quit a job but ok.