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    Empire of Dirt

    Jun 16, 2021 2 minutes
    By Tom Philpott

    new fortunes emerge from the shadowy digital domain of cryptocurrency, a more tangible asset has caught the attention of some of the nation’s wealthiest investors: farms. Bill Gates, the software oligarch turned philanthropist, along with his soon-to-be-ex-wife Melinda, are the nation’s “largest private farmland owners,” the trade journal recently revealed. The Gateses own 242,000 acres nationwide, an empire of dirt more than 1.5 times the

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