The Land Report Winter 2020

The 2020 Land Report 100 sponsored by Hayden Outdoors Real Estate features the debut of Bill and Melinda Gates as America’s leading farmland owners with 242,000 acres of productive farmland in more than a dozen states. All told, the Gateses own more than 268,000 acres of farmland, transitional land, and recreational properties and rank No. 49 on the Land Report 100. Other newcomers in the Class of 2020 include Los Angeles Dodgers owners, Bobby Patton and Mark Walter, who join the Land Report 100 at No. 75 with 208,350 acres of ranchland in West Texas and New Mexico. Our winter issue also features a hefty Agriculture Special Section.