Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett, Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Pallato from Mediamonickey.com. Open up, and don't worry, in the end, we will make them eat their fines.

We have got that awesome story.

Plus, of course, inaugural theater.

But first, America's biggest owner of farmland is now, of course, Bill Gates.

James, I don't know.

It's possible you probably got this story sent to you even more than I had this story sent to me in the past week.

This is one of those.

I saw it in every place and all the emails and this is the one.

Bill Gates, and this comes from Forbes, of course.

And remember everything we talk about, always included in your show notes.

Bill Gates has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. enough to make him the top private farmland

owner in America. After years of reports, he was purchasing agricultural land in places like

Florida and Washington State, the land report reveals that Gates, who has a net worth of nearly

$121 billion, according to Forbes, has built up a massive farmland

portfolio spanning 18 states. That's 69,000 acres in Louisiana, 47,000 in Arkansas, 20,000 in Nebraska.

Additionally, he has a stake in 25 plus thousand acres of transitional land on the west side of Phoenix, Arizona, which they're going

to turn into a new suburb. According to the land reports research, the land is held directly

and through third-party entities like cascade investments. That's Bill Gates' personal investment

vehicle. And this is where, like we did in the Media Monarchy

community earlier this week, this is where you learn about even more things that you didn't

know that Bill Gates owned. Cascades other investments include Food Safety Company Eco Lab. And

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