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Regenerative Farming Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Dr. Joseph Mercola

So when Bill Gates received legal approval to do just that, it did more than raise a few eyebrows.

Gates secured approval to purchase 2,100 acres from Campbell Farms, a potato grower in northeastern North Dakota, for $13.5 million.1 This, along with the 270,000 other acres of farmland he's previously purchased in the U.S., makes him the largest private farmland owner in the country.2

Doug Goehring, North Dakota's Agriculture Commissioner, told KFYR-TV that he's gotten a lot of backlash since word got out. "I've gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it's not even from that neighborhood. Those people are upset, but there are others that are just livid about this."3

Moving Toward Modern-Day Feudalism

Gates was able to purchase the land legally via a loophole that allows individual trusts to own farmland as long as it's leased to farmers.4 The law is meant to protect family farms because the farmland must be leased back to them.5 However, while this is Gates' intention, it amounts to modern-day feudalism.


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