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Bill Gates wins approval to buy huge swath of North Dakota farmland

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has secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime farmland, after the deal drew fury from the state's residents. 
The state's Attorney General Drew Wrigley had inquired into the land sale, and on Wednesday issued a letter saying the transaction complied with an archaic anti-corporate farming law. 
The Depression-era law prohibits corporations or limited liability companies from owning farmland or ranchland, but allows individual trusts to own the land if it is leased to farmers, which Gates intends to do.
Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in America after quietly amassing some 270,000 acres across dozens of states, according to last year's edition of the Land Report 100, an annual survey of the nation's largest landowners. 
Bill Gates has secured legal approval for the controversial purchase of thousands of acres of prime North Dakota farmland from the state's Republican AG Drew Wrigley (right)
Gates' firm, Red River Trust, purchased $13.5 million worth of land in two counties from wealthy northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms

However, the billionaire's holdings make up only about one percent of the nearly 900 million total farm acres in the U.S.
The purchase of the land in North Dakota had raised legal questions as well as concerns that ultrarich landowners do not share the state's values.
Gates' firm, Red River Trust, purchased $13. If you cherished this post and you would like to acquire extra information concerning Lawyer Turkey kindly stop by our own web site. 5 million worth of land in two counties from wealthy northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms.
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About 2100 acres of land were sold in the deal, AgWeek reported. 
In a curious move, Lawyer Turkey the Campbell family in February filed a partnership name certificate with the North Dakota secretary of state naming their farming operation the Red River Trust - the same name as Gates' firm. 
But an attorney for Gates' firm wrote to the attorney general´s office that the Campbells registered the name without his knowledge.
The Campbells did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
Red River Trust reportedly acquired six parcels of land in Grafton, ND, near the borders of Minnesota and Canada last November.

The land is apparently part of Campbell Farms (above)
North Dakota's Agriculture Commissioner, Republican Doug Goehring, previously said that many people feel they are being exploited by the ultra-rich who buy land but do not necessarily share the state's values.

'I've gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it's not even from that neighborhood,' Goehring told KFYR-TV. 'Those people are upset, but there are others that are just livid about this.'
Corporations are exempted from the ownership ban if the land is necessary 'for residential or commercial development; the siting of buildings, plants, facilities, industrial parks, or similar business or industrial purposes of the corporation or limited liability company; or for uses supportive of or ancillary to adjacent non agricultural land for the benefit of both land parcels,' the law reads.
It's not the first test for a statute that was passed in 1932. 
A federal judge in 2018 ruled the law constitutional after a conservative farm group argued that it limits business options for producers and interferes with interstate commerce by barring out-of-state corporations from being involved in North Dakota's farm industry.
North Dakota Republican Governor Doug Burgum, a former Microsoft executive whose campaign received $100,000 from Microsoft co-founder Gates when Burgum first won in 2016, declined to comment on the farmland sale. 
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley issued a letter to the trust Tuesday asking officials to confirm plans for use of the land and whether the company meets any of the exceptions to the state's laws
The tech billionaire had previously bought up 242,000 acres of farmland in 18 states - and 268,984 of multi-use land in 19 states in total, making him the biggest agricultural landowner in the US, though far short of the biggest overall landowner in the country
The Republican governor stayed down the middle when asked his opinion of the anti-corporate farming law, which he and the Legislature expanded in 2019 to allow second cousins in the mix of ownership.
'The governor strongly supports family farms and is open to discussions about cutting red tape that puts North Dakota farmers at a disadvantage compared with neighboring states and ensuring that our ranchers and farmers can succeed and grow their operations, helping rural communities to thrive,' Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said.
Gates already has an impressive land portfolio. As of 2021, his largest holdings in the U.S.

included 69,071 acres in Louisiana, 47,927 acres in Arkansas, 25,750 acres in Arizona, 20,588 acres in Nebraska and 16,097 in Washington state. 
But even then, Gates didn't rank in the Top 100 of private landowners overall in the U.S.
- when considering owners of land of all types, not just agricultural.
The title for largest landholdings overall goes to U.S. businessman John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, who owns 2.2 million acres.
Gates also reportedly shopped for 'hundreds of acres of farmland' in Lawyer Turkey while vacationing aboard a superyacht last November.
He allegedly wanted to create a large sustainable farm in country.

It is unclear if he ended up purchasing the land.





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