Why Bill Gates Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2024
- Bill Gates made headlines for becoming the largest private farmland owner in the U.S. But he’s not the only one. Some of the wealthiest landowners including Jeff Bezos, John Malone and Thomas Peterffy are buying up forests, ranches and farmlands across the United States. Why? Watch the video to find out.
Investments in farmland are growing across the country as people, including the ultra-wealthy like Bill Gates, look for new ways to grow their money.
In 2020, Gates made headlines for becoming the largest private farmland owner in the U.S. He had accumulated more than 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states in less than a decade. His farmland grows onions, carrots and even the potatoes that are used to make McDonald’s French fries.
“It’s an asset with increasing value,” American Farmland Trust CEO John Piotti said. “It has great intrinsic value and beyond that, it is a limited resource.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 30% of all farmland is owned by landlords who don’t farm themselves. Buyers often purchase land from farmers who have owned it for decades; many of whom may be asset rich but maybe cash poor.
“The economic realities for them are typical that they’ve spent their life farming,” said Holly Rippon-Butler, land campaign director at the National Young Farmers Coalition. “Their retirement, their equity is all in the land and tied up in selling land.”
Private landowners are also making a profit by utilizing the land in numerous ways. Approximately 39% of the 911 million acres of farmland across the U.S. is rented out to farmers, and 80% of that rented farmland is owned by landlords who don’t farm themselves data from the Agriculture Department shows.
“The young farmers are just as happy to lease the land because whether you are young or old, it’s a business, right?” said Thomas Petterfy, chairman of Interactive Brokers and owner of 581,000 acres.
“You go buy a farm and you put that cash rental lease in place, you’re going to be looking at about 2.5% return on your capital,” Peoples Company President Steve Bruere said.
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Why Bill Gates Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland
They're not investing, they're hoarding. It's part of the "You'll own nothing and be happy about it" project.
Right one.
The Great Reset. m.ua-cam.com/video/6G3nWyoQ5CQ/v-deo.html
It’s about control of resources.
@Rain Dance Ranch , absolutely! Our global population is exploding and those who are used to having everything to themselves are looking to keep it that way!
And the sheeple are just going to let them do this ? dumb on ! everyone is doomed if they dont stand up and fight back A.S.A.P , today , not tomorrow.....
"He who controls the food supply, controls the people".
Not me, gardening is fun and you can feed the community
lmao who cares you would die without them
@@beet111 na im a loner but nice guess
Elon musk prefers to control memes instead.
however my worm Frank does complain so as long as I have my worms Im covered lol
As a retired multi generational farmer I can tell you this will not end well.
I agree!!! But can you give me your thoughts on why its gonna end bad.. I’m curious.
why?
@@JerrysHouseMusic1 same, i need answers
@@JerrysHouseMusic1 ever see Soylent Green? That's why.
Bill Gates is a psychopath
From $10k to $25k that's the minimum range of profit return every week i think it's not a bad one for me, now i have enough to pay bills and take care of my family.
I'm celebrating a $30k stock portfolio today. Started this journey with 6k, i have invested on time and also with the right terms now.
Ohh yeah, that was possible with the help of my Guru Layla zoe ❤️❤️❤️
She's a licensed broker and successful entrepreneur from the state.
Omg This is the king of information that we don't get from most UA-camrs I will get in touch with her right now
What are you strategy?
“Why the rich invest in U.S. farmland.”
To starve the poor.
Vapid conspiratorial nonsense. Why would the rich starve people who they make a profit from? Communists need a dose of reality.
Not hardly
🎯
ding ding ding
Everything we feared that would happen in communism, has already happened in the US.
In Russia and Ukraine millions of people were dying from famines for centuries due to climate patterns(famine every 10 years). The USSR came and ended these famines in just 30 years while fighting a world war directly against a major superpower, Nazi Germany, remember that the USSR defeated Nazi Germany and captured Berlin, not the UK/France.
By the 80's even the US gov admitted that the USSR fed more food per person than Americans.
As the USSR was dissolved illegally in 1990(70% of people wanted the USSR to stay in the referendum, however Gorbachev still decided to illegally dissolve the government)
The old famine patters have returned. Thank the US and the American people for that who will with full confidence say how well capitalism works, while they eat thrash junk food.
Controlling farmland and food is more directly related to life than controlling wealth. In my country, the big landowners had power by owning a lot of farmland, and the poor farmers were at their mercy. If their ethics go wrong, nobody can stop them. Excessive wealth is a backward step.
Most farmers here are treated like garbage too
I would argue that controlling agriculture is pretty much all that matters. You can't eat oil or muh green transit.
Wouldn't blame them. I too would slaughter all my cows if commies or bitcoiners came to get some food. I would laugh 'feed yourself now'.
Congress should vote a indivual power limit law
Where an individual is blocked from owning a certain number of land, big stratigic companies if he become too powerful
The future looks dark
When nothing else is left to buy , buy the means of food production.
There is still a lot left to buy.
Bill gates will soon microchip you
Farming is a tough business, too much competition, too much downside risk, unpredictable prices. There are easier ways to get a higher return on capital. The reason Bill's interested in farmland is that his foundation has done a lot of great work on increasing yields on farms and working on food insecurity in the US. I wish him luck it's not an easy problem to solve.
@@visitante-pc5zc lol why? there is no reason for him to microchip anyone. He has bigger things to worry about than the actions of me, you or anyone. He has lives to save.
Half of the cropland is used for ethanol, half for meat feed production.
Control farmlands, control food supply then you control society.
A human kept as a slave’s version of control?
You mean they don’t?!
That's right control control control we either have to get them out and stop them but what can we do they sell out anything for money
Data storage centers
I can't believe we're letting them do this. We are a weak society 😔
That is what capitalism.If the buyer and the seller are both consenting,then third party has no role over it.
@@captain4595It’s not capitalism. This is a mixture of things, mainly a lot of criminals getting away with criminal activity. Causing farms to foreclose because they have made the production costs so HIGH, Higher than what is being earned for it, so they for close, forcing them to sell there property to the big guy. A lot of shady and illegal games are being played here.
Rich hate trump. He was for the farmers.
Riiiiight!!!$
GREED
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
-Henry Kissinger
You are correct
So the jews control the world? 🤔
Wow great point
The question is what are people gonna do about it????
Oh that's right. . NOTHING!!!
The rich are buying ALL asset classes. Stocks, derivatives, bonds, land, crypto etc etc etc. The rich are richer than ever before. This is not limited to just land.
Truth
@@adagio7635
War used to be for land. Now war is just good for business.
We lost a lot of wars lately. George Orwell in the movie 1984
War is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous.
I served in the USMC in 1984. My ears are still ringing from
the noise of the bombs. When do I get my slice of the pie?
All my family's farm land has been taken by the banks.
The town I was born in no longer exists. It is now just one
huge field for monocrop agribusiness. The world population
has doubled in my lifetime. All so the rich could get richer?
Peace
They could easily skyrocket prices of seeds and fertilizer, crop insurance, or taxes. Decrease price of commodities. Just long enough that farmers would go out of business while the super rich could still afford all the increases. Swoop in and "save" you by taking it off your hands.
Wars all over the world plus infertility rates skyrocketing, but yet "they" keep reporting the population is increasing. Bull.
@@playtime5051 I'm sorry to hear that. We, the little people are getting less and less share of what we produce. We will never get our fair share of the pie. We are 3x more productive for our companies than we were in the 70s but living standards haven't improved since then. Go back to 70% taxes on people with more than $500k income or $10 million wealth. It worked before, it can work again.
And the government is helping them by writing the checks
Yeah, a long time ago, kings owned all the land; we're just going back to that. The rich are getting richer, and the middle class and poor are getting squished.
"Control oil, control nations. Control food, control people."
- Henry (New World Order) Kissinger.
That's antisemitism
@@gavinanderson4147 *say's anything critical about Israel or a person who just happens to be jewish*
>ThAtS AnTi-SeMiTisM!!!
@@smith2354 just say you're antisemitic
ua-cam.com/video/eje1qnYOKuM/v-deo.html
Reptilians too
Control the food....control the people. They aren't even hiding it anymore.
They don't have to hide it because most people won't do anything about it.
@@nolag7581stop paying taxes
Yep. And control birth rates with all this GMO new mrna engineered Food. Brought to by 😈
You said it better than this video did in one sentence. Let’s get RFK in the white house, b/c he knows what tondo about this..
"He who feeds you, controls you." -- Thomas Sankara
assuming always you dont have alternatives, which in this world you have thousands off.
@@wv9529 watch for monsanto also
So who is controlling me when I’m choosing which cereal to buy?
Its happening because the governmnt isn't doing anything to stop it. Cap1talism has failed, not because of "inequal1ty" of the p o o r or any inherent "unfairnesss" to the low income but because of corrruption between the pol1tical elt1es and utra wealthy cr1minals like G a t e s, So rose, B e z o s, etc. Quite s a d.
The governmnet is allowing this to happen and the meedeeuh is covering for it by gasl1ghting that its somehow a "good thing." Its all too much at this point.
Appreciate your videos! I’m 54 and younger generations should know there’s no shortcut to acquiring wealth, but there are ways to go about it. Fellow millionaires don’t tell the poor/middle class they need the knowledge of finance coaches to help build their wealth. If anyone here needs a good coach, here’s it..
ELIZABETH GREEN HUNTS
Get to her with her name.
Good I got here. Big Thank
A farmer should 100% own the land he/she is working on. Period.
@@typenull3367 The state owning the land is true comunism.
@@typenull3367 how so?
@@typenull3367 what?
@@typenull3367 nothing you've said makes sense
@@typenull3367 Imagine liking your own comment 😂
The real question is why are they buying up active farmlands and making them inactive?
Could it be to cause a food crisis?
They are going into the next phase of their plan.
@@hetty7776 STOP COMPLYING WITH STUPID
Just like the current "housing crisis" and "water crisis" scenarios. There was no such THING as American bottled water in the 1990's. You had bottled water from exotic places only. Our aquifers are being pumped dry, and Americans are being brainwashed that their tap water is toxic, only bottled water is "safe", meanwhile, investors buy city water lines because the wealth taxes that paid for them were cut. Last year, my city bill went up. Suddenly, there was this $30 'Wastewater Capital' being charged. In OTHER words, an investor was allowed to BUY the city's wastewater treatment facility. As a result, it is no longer done at-cost like government things are. It is now for profit. 😢
read your history books. the Nazis promoted the farming community then exploited them to seize power. just part of the plan of democrats (modern day Nazis)
Population control, if there is not enough food they can say there are too many of us. Also climate change, the energy and housing crisis all seem to be vessels they are using to push population control.
Just when you think our country can't move any closer to feudalism, here we are: billionaires will now control our very survival.
'The Great Reset' is well underway
it's about time
Silence peasant!
Please ready our horse.. peasant..
Deadass it’s been like this for awhile
I admire the financial independence of people, But you can live better if you work a little more. After watching this I think there are people out there, on the extreme, who plan to die early just to be able to retire early. To each their own but to me retirement isn't just about not having to work, it's about having the freedom to do whatever you might reasonably want, such as travel, buying things, enjoying life, etc. I don't think I could retire with less than $3m in income-generating investments, maybe $2m at the very minimum. I plan to work until I'm at least 45
Nobody knows anything, you need to create your own process, manage risk and stick to the plan, through thick or thin while also continuously learning from mistakes and improving
Spot on advice. Great job! And yeah, I think we investors overestimate how hard it is to stay in the market when things aren't looking too good. Whenever I'm tempted to either cut losses or capture profits, I remind myself of Fidelity's study of their best performing portfolios; the best performers were either dead or forgot they had an account. So now with directives from my asset manager, I pick assets that can perform similarly in both short and long term. My portfolio has been foolproof so far
Who’s the person guiding you
Her name is “Sonya Lee Mitchell” can't divulge much. Most likely, the internet should have her basic info, you can research if you like
I just checked her out and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.
I personally know a group of 4 brothers who inherited their father's large multi-acre farm in the Midwestern US. They agreed to keep the farm in their family by leasing the land to other local farmers to use. They all have other jobs and live in other areas, but wanted to keep the land in their family as it had been for over 100 years. These are middle-class people who wanted to keep their land out of the hands of the mega-farms and wealthy investors in their area. God bless the families like this that can come up with this kind of solution. A few people owning most of the land anywhere is a problem...absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Farmers are in business to make money. And farmers can work large numbers of acres because of mechanization.
We are a dying breed. My family alone has sold tons of acres because we simply cannot afford it. Land that had been in our family for over 100 years. Weather taxes, all the legal issues people don’t even know about and they are (mainly democrats) continually passing more laws which only benefit themselves. And they know no one will notice because you have to have a damn law degree to understand.
@@dylanfry7978 yes it is surely the fault of the democrats that your farm is not profitable. If only you received more govt subsidies (farm welfare) then you could be rich.
@@rzadigi I don’t know if your being sarcastic ? But Um yeah don’t get none of that. And with capital gains tax being raised to nearly 50% along with other less known things that are not reported and people don’t know, private land owners will be extinct. I’m not die hard republican bu any means, in fact many Republicans I have a distaste for as well, but I cannot stand what these liberals are doing to this country.
@@dylanfry7978 a large increase in the capital gains tax has been proposed but there is no way it will pass. My republican family has owned farmland for years and it’s always been profitable. Land managed wisely is a valuable asset. Good luck to you and your family.
Long story short:
Billionaires buy the land from cash strapped elderly farmers. Then rent the land to young farmers thereby siphoning profit from the wealth transfer and creating young indentured servants
What you said! And people still don’t realize it.
correct that is what they call serfdom
aka slavery
Bingo
Its call capitalism
that’s right
I appreciate that this segment tried to represent both sides of the argument, but the idea that farmers benefit from leasing rather than owning their land is laughable. The only reason it's "good" for them is it's often the only way they can access land at all
Owning with a mortgage allows you to eventually overcome inflation. It's like renting from yourself, but the rent never increases. It makes zero sense to rent in perpetuity when rent is always increasing. Those "cool landlords" who don't raise rent until you move out are all dead and gone.
The problem is nobody really owns anything here and even if you're not paying a bank loan on it you're still paying the government taxes for the usage of it. None of this material world was meant to be owned anyways but I digress
Agreed. Owning is actually cheaper than leasing. It also gives them the freedom to do whatever it is that they want to the land. Bill Gates is also saying how "complicated" it would be to let other countries get the vaccination formula even though the pandemic is a world crisis.
It turns farmers into plantation slaves instead of property owners. Property has value, a lease is just workin' the land fo' Massa?, yes suh. 🌱
@@MrTaxiRob If you have to pay the State Gang each and every year, I'd say that you don't really "own" anything. People who don't understand that simple fact will be stuck forever, fighting both sides of the same rusty coin
Own the food and the water and you have complete control of the people. People can refuse to use AI, buy phones, work at a corporation, etc. But no one can refuse food and water
We can move out of the U.S.
@@etherealbutterfly Yes, but people have family here and have lived their whole life in America. Most people are going to stay for that reason no matter how corrupt the government is.
People need to learn how to be more self reliant.
@@TinyArcadeBunny That is true, but the way our economy works forces people to work away their lives to make enough money to survive. So it is not easy for them to do the necessary things in order to be self reliant.
Doesn't this seem like we're going back to the times when a handful of aristocrats all of the land and the serfs are forced to work their fields?
Bingo! Go to the head of the class!
I became midwest farmland owner more than decade ago. I bought the land from retiring farmers whose children did not want to farm. Right after I purchased the land, several young men wanted to be my tenant farmers. I offered the lease to them at fair market rate according to soil quality on each pieces of my bland. Now they are in their middle age with six digit income from farming. They all said they would not be able to become farmers without my cash rent land for such long term relationship. Indeed, they treated me better than my own sons. But such loyalty is mutual beneficial business relationship. I am no feudal lord. They are neither my serfs. Freedom to move or end lease is right there.
Open your eyes ceo’s are kings while the working man is the peasant
@@alexoolau sharecropping isn't comparable to big agriculture or billionaires buying country sized plots of fertile land. My grandparents were sharecroppers in their early days, it didn't resemble your partners experience, but it was nothing compared to corporate greed.
@@ErnestKhamilov ...and politicians are their vassals
Regardless of what the future looks like, people still need food. And that food will come from the farmland these billionaires own
He will lose his shirt as usual.
Others tried and failed.
Ford , Ludwig the paper pulp baron.
There is a thing about Brazilians thought....
They will find ways to sell you what it is non transferable through deed.
And then they will make sure you , the buyer , lose every cent in making a go through the investment.
And then it will either become public domain or private property.
@@AntonioCostaRealEstate He's not trying to succeed .
No,Reagan said,We don't need American farmers! We'll IMPORT OUR FOOD!
Yeah gmo-s and all
Have you tried soylent green ?
I was planting vegetables on one acre owned by another person. Each fall I put a lot of manure and shredded leaves on the land to make it more productive the next year. After 7 years the owner sold the land to a developer and all the effort I made to enrich the land went to nothing. I cannot imagine a young farmer leasing land and investing a lot of time and energy in truly enriching the soil organically only to face the possibility of losing that lease after a few short years.
So sorry for your loss, how very unfortunate.
agreed. I've done gardening work on 4 of the houses I've rented and it was almost for nothing. Good soil and good gardening layout can take years to get right.
You can sue for the time and effort and money spent that you put into it unless you signed a waiver
I bet the developer scrapped off all of the good top soil and replaced it with dirt. Then planted a crop of homes. My aunt lived across the road from an old man with a bunch of land. She said his kids were worthless and would sell his land before even putting him in the ground. The old man died and his kids sold his land in a heartbeat. Now a big school is on the land.
@@sd906238 to be fair, leaving high-quality topsoil on suburban lots is often a waster - especially the spot the house and concrete driveway or patio or deck sits on.
So he can eat beef - and the world can eat bugs ????
Exactly what I was thinking
Der fuhrer: you will eat ze bug. You will live in ze pod.
His best friend had a cool island. Loved children too.
@T D oh absolutely 🆘
Who cares about children?
@@Jerometk You missed the joke. Think Epstein.
@@writerconsidered I know who epstein is, and again ¿Who cares if they were "friends"? ¿Who cares what he did to those stupid children?
@@Jerometk you don't care? Perhaps you're someone like him too
“You will own nothing and be happy “ the super elite
More like Communism.Thats the base of communism that everything belongs to goverment.
Commies in the UA-cam comments? It's more likely than you'd think.
@@han5807 What you're describing would be an obtuse form of nationalism. IE: everything for the good of the state. It's actually the opposite of what communism is supposed to do by definition. There really isn't any system that can't be hacked and people are the weakest link regardless of title.
I would love to take all of Gates and prince Charles possession just so they can feel happy
the super parasites
As I get older George Carlin seems to be right they own everything
...and they are coming for your social security too....
@@TSARMOTAF yes they are. The rich are evil.
@@TSARMOTAF what will they do with our social security? Please forgive my ignorance.
@@love.1995 Give it to Wall St.
@@love.1995 they want to scrap social security to put old people back to work ! capital knows no bounds
One word - CONTROL! As has been mentioned many times, Control the food supply and you control the people. We should all be very concerned about what is going on here. The farmers of the world have already woken up and are protesting. The public should all be joining them.
Boils my blood knowing that we all know what's happening but we can never do anything about it. 😞
Pray. Prayer is what works
of course we can! they are afraid of us, because the people have the power.
we will see!
get the hammer and sickle. you know what i mean
@@cmr_77 time and karma will show effect soon
This sounds a lot like how land in the Roman Empire gradually moved from small famers to huge estates with semi-permanent workers who became serfs as the Roman Empire declined.
Uhu and all the citizens went to rome (the cities) living in horrible crowded conditions as slaves because the welfare state (bread circus) could not be payed anymore…
History repeats itself
There is nothing wrong with being a serf, you work and you get paid.
In Chinese history it is a typical trend for long lasting dynasties. It's usually at least a contributory factor in collapse of a dynasty. The start of a new one would usually redstribute it and lead to good times. After a few generations it would concentrate. When reforms were successful the dynasty might ascend again but if it failed it would move towards collapse.
An example is the Song Dynasty. The reformer was removed and the court that was aligned with landed gentry colluded to pay no taxes so the tax burden shifted to the peasants. This was disastrous as the dynasty kept a weak military to avoid coups but was under constant threat from neighbours. Eventually they had no money to defend against the Mongols and they had to nationalize all land. It was too late by then.
@@xblade11230 Then there's nothing wrong with slavery you work you get paid with food, shelter and the master let's you lease a horse. If your like a majority of American's today on the lower rungs of the ladder of all race's your just a slave they just allow you to perceive it different so you do it on your own accord
"We are in a food shortage" It will be okay all these rich people own so much farmland........wait.....they are not growing food? You would think the people who own the most farmland would be growing food during a food shortage. Interesting.
As if Bill Gates is a farmer. Just like how he's a Virologist
He always talks about environment being destroyed and climate change but forgets to mention he's the reason. Maybe travelling in private jets cancels self criticism elements in humans.
they wanted land to sell to foreign investors as they also gave away battery tech and oil...
100% only person who benefits from this is Bill Gates and Co.
@@tassosplatis2143 He thinks people are stupid and can't see what he is doing. He may be rich but he will fail.
As a dairy farmer myself, we need more farmers, a lot of small farms are better then one big farm because the small farms care more about the little things like how they treat they cows and the people who work for them because they're not large enough to just not give a crap. If you don't want to be a farmer you can still help by buying dairy products, if you can afford organic buy organic products because almost all organic farms are smaller so you will be supporting small farms by buying organic. If you can't afford organic products at least bug real dairy products, NOT almond or silk milk buy real dairy mimil
"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy!" World Economic Forum propaganda video from 2016. Their dystopian dream is a nightmare for us.
Ownership is a human created figment of our imagination to make us feel dominant and in control. We aren't Destined for this planet
@@user-rb7ns9yj5y
when you own something - it really owns you. We are tied down by the things we own.
@@user-rb7ns9yj5y What do we own then? The clothes on our backs? The houses we've spent years trying to pay off? The food we've stocked our pantries with? As individuals, as consumers, as adults, when do we stand up for what we believe in & when do we sit down, shut up & accept the status quo?
@@user-rb7ns9yj5y Slaves don’t own anything that’s why they’re slaves. They’re dependent on their masters. I wonder if those billionaires and millionaires will give away all their property and live like the rest of us?
@@user-rb7ns9yj5y I agree, but you also have to ask "are they going to own nothing and be happy as well". I dont think so
This reminds me of the past of Barron's in Europe a 1000 years ago. Kings, Earl's, etc... farmers were allowed to farm the land they didn't own it. They were also at the mercy of them as well. It didn't work. It won't work now.
It will work now. Enjoy the foot stomping..
Humans will not survive long term... boring species.
That's exactly what is happening here, control over the land, food, and communities lost to the evil of the world, it's just a matter of time before we have nothing but holes in our jeans from begging on our knees, good thing we have our guns, for now
Land annexation, a common operation at the end of the empire.
Don't cry for the farmes too early. Wait a few decades until there won't be any farmes left anyway, due to automatisation of the farming sector with the means of AI Systems. It'll be initially a sad thing but eventually a great achievement.
Great Reset = Feudalism 2.0
Sounds like we're getting into a feudal system. Lord's own the land, the fiefs work it, and everyone is at the mercy of the choices of a few powerful men.
You hit the nail rig
right on the head
Mind = blown
Capitalism is just that, they just changed the name, people enjoy their own slavery.
U r saying it all wrong. Lord owns the land and labourers work at their factories
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l vs socialism where Peele view their slavery as freedom. Sounds legit
They own the land
They force all farmers to pay rent to him
He raises rents
Our food supply becomes unaffordable
We die off
"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy."
Already do, and yeah-sure.
This is the thinking of losers. Please stay away from people like BlindEye, he is literally blind.
I know the peasants during the feudal serfdom days definitely didn't agree with that philosophy they're trying to push.
@@temimegraham1904 Lol you must be the blind one if you cant see whats happening to middle class and what their agenda is. You’re either a troll or a propaganda bot.
Enjoy whats to come.
Bunch of BS. If everyone stops affirming that saying then maybe we can do something better for ourselves.
Control the food, control the people. That’s why I grow my own food and livestock.
THATS ILLEGAL NO BAD YOU DONT GROW UR OWN ONLY BUY FOOD FROM MONSANTO YUMMY
were coming for you bud. be warned
@@magnumopiss244 locked and loaded.
@Cry Bore what they don’t know won’t hurt em. 😅lol
@lady love I have 7 children.
They are buying the land so that when automation hits the agriculture industry they will own majority of the land and they will be the only ones able to afford that automation technology. AI operating an entire farm with little or no human physical involvement.
Um, most farms are automated. The problem is no one wants to be a part of the next generation of farmers unless they can be the plantation owner.
@@KRYMauL They automated only parts of the process but there is no fully automated commercial farm. A human is involved at many points
Automation to the point that someone like Billy would technically be a farmer. But would control all aspects of his farming without ever interacting with another human being to accomplish all of the aspects. Feeding and caring for live stock, milking, planting crops, harvesting crops literally everything on a farm or ranch being done completely without human presence and completely done by AI. Only human ever to be physically present would be to conduct maintenance and software updates on the AI equipment. Human labor would be obsolete because the AI would be more efficient and no expense of a work force. As and added bonus the AI would not be prone to work place injuries, so no need for insurance to cover work place accidents and injuries.
@@KRYMauL AI to the point that human physical presence would not be needed and would be a financial burden. If domino's is advertising AI driven delivery cars, I think Microsoft will eventually be driving tractors while Billy sings Green Acres
By the time that happens most other sectors will also be automated.
And when that occurs, the vast majority of the people in the United States will be screwed.
We have an arrogant and heartless attitude towards those people who can't produce towards this economy. We have better change our attitude before 90 percent of us are considered economically useless.
The best way to control the people is by controlling their food source.
Slowly progressing back to feodalism with lords benefitting from the land they own while peasants work on it.
EXACTLY
Indeed.
While our rules aren't perfect, the US should maybe look at how things are here in Denmark. Here you can only buy a farm, if you are a farmer. You can become a farmer, either by being "grandfathered in" if you are born on a farm, or you have to take the farmers education, that ends up with giving you a "green license". (in this case, green has nothing to do with invironment, green is just the color of farming). These rules are specifically there, to prevent a small group of people, from buying up all farmland. As mentioned at the start, the rules aren't perfect, but they do help, to pull things in the right direction. Feudalism is a really nasty thing, that we don't need back.
Except the peasants will take target practice.
@@RandomUser6947 only buying land if you are a farmer? What about people that like homesteading?
The value will soon be about the water rights.
Came to say this
Water rights are usually sold separately, same as mineral rights. Where I live way back in the day farmers were able to put their mineral rights up for collateral because it was useless to them. Many of those farms went out of business in the 80s creating some of the nations wealthiest banks.
Ding ding, that’s only a part of it, but a very essential part
Nestle has already started on this monopoly.
@@willjohnson211 Which is exactly why we SHOULDN'T allow this to happen... right?
Trusting the rich "to do what's right for the land" is a bad bet.
Trusting the rich to do what's right for the rest of humanity, (i.e. you, me,..), is even worse.
Read your own history, take responsibility... or leave it to others to determine how you live your life, because that worked so well in the past, right?
Your choice.
Yeah, 'what's right for the land'. Don't bet on that! You can't trust 'em. They'll prob work it to death, let it erode and try to fill up the Gulf, where they can claim more land. It's their dirt, right? - I'll take responsibility, I will read my own history, I will NOT let others determine how I live my life! Except for maybe the Chief and the Mayor. Uh, the Council, City Manager. Maybe my wife and my Pastor, and the tax man. And the HOA. Be like my friend on the sewer maint. crew. He cleans the sewers and NOBODY hands him any crap!! - We still have people like Hank Williams, Jr. and Fonzie and Ted Turner to hold land that Gates and Bezos can't buy. There's still hope.
Was about to say the same. I honestly don't think that they would do 'whats good for the land'.. if you compared it with the people actually farming it is foolish to assume that rich would potentially care more for the land then the farmers. No need to look at history, one can just look at countries like Brazil where land is owned by big landowners.
Then again, if you were rich you would also want to diversify your assets and buying farmland seems to be a stable opportunity for this. But the profit maximization that is behind it will inevitably lead to negative consequences..
If the common man could be trusted, we wouldn't be in this position. It's not about how much money the decision maker has. It's about the dwindling connection and values in society in general.
@@adhisboucha295 you know an avrege joe can be a mean dude too you kbow
rockefeller and carnegie amirite
because they have plans to take control of the food supply is why.
I gotta be honest. I’m one of the farmers who asks myself everyday if it’s really worth the fight to keep the 200 acres we farm and the 40 dairy cows we milk. The public may soon find out what complete corporate farming looks like.
Please hang in there. There are many of us who appreciate what you do!
What Jan said
What state are you in?
Farms can sell raw milk in PA.
Can you build a small farm store?
Check online to see the commercial enterprises small successful farms go into. See Russell Farms in PA or many in Vermont. Best wishes for your success!
Thanks everyone.
The only reason we still are farming is because the size, balance of animals is self manageable and self sustaining. When the next generation has to buy in and be taxed on the inflated land values it won’t be anymore though.
I live in Iowa and raw milk is outright banned here.
I’ve also found that most people will buy meat/cheeses direct once or twice but one stop shopping is just too convenient for busy people. They also liked to be entertained and have an emotional connection to their food and feel that the food is superior in innumerable ways if they purchase it from a farm.
The extremely high expectations are what keep us from adding the stress of selling directly.
@Larry Fage You’re kinda proving my point. People say they want small farms but in reality farmers have to build an “empire” to meet public demands.
"you will own nothing and be happy" world economic forum
These people clutch their pearls when they hear of socialism or communism but praise a godlike class controlling a rentier economy.
riiiight lol. Tell me who's going to be happy with that one.
It wont go as they plan.The reason is people need a reward to work towards if people own nothing they wont just be productive and they will live off welfare.This big wigs need to get their heads examined theres a reason why the soviet union collapsed.
@@kaputasri okay not a single economist would say that's why the Soviet union collapsed, they still had monetary systems and incentives, complex ones towards the end at that.
World Economic Forum, Hans Klaus, Alfred Hitchcock clone.
Business model: Create unaffordable farmland and then lease it out at "affordable" rates. Self appointed humanitarians solving a problem they them selves created.
This comment
If the rent isn’t affordable then no one will pay it. Tenant farmers are not dummies.
This kind of thing is why I support American Farmland Trust which helps family owned farms.
"Make those purchases quietly" sounds like, "snatch the rug from under the small farmer, and knock out other wealthy competitors before they get their hands on it." Basically, sneaking and swindling.
Anything you acquire, you don't tell others until you have acquire it. Its basic common sense
@@wendyshoo3476 so you've never boasted or said," hey mom, I'm getting a new car"? 🙄
Wealthy rat race.
That is what they’re doing in the future there won’t be any ranchers and there will be quite a bit of land nobody will be living on and this all goes with agenda 2030 and everybody thinks it’s a conspiracy theory and it’s not it’s on the United Nations website
But, but, but, the article goes on to claim its a "good thing." A "w i n - w i n" for everyone. You aren't doubting the meedeeuh are you? That's a thought cr1me you know.
Who owns the land, especially farmland where food is produced, may seem a distant concern to most people. However it's important to remember that some of the biggest revolutions involved questions of land ownership. (Too much land in too few hands). Such as the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution.
The amount of land in the U.S. seems enormous. However only a fraction of it is suitable for food crops. And that is shrinking every day, because of land being converted to homes and developments. Because good farmland is often located next to expanding urban areas.
As a lifetime (and active) farmer of 66 years old, and a bachelor, I am increasingly concerned about what happens to my farm in the future.
I would love to start a farm but with no farmers or land in my family im stuck driving trucks and dreaming.
Are you in England?
Land annexation, a common operation at the end of the empire.
Let me tell you about our farming. We grow for Tyson. We have been growing for around 30 years. We aren't paid out and probably won't ever get to pay out. About the time you start to get paid out they want you to do thousand and thousands of dollars in updates.or they cut you off. We have gone 8 years with no raise (think how much your chicken has gone up, especially during covid) we got a 1 cent a pound a few weeks ago. In the last year our propane bill has doubled and our equipment is up at least 30% if you can get it. Here is my advice. Buy local. Farmers Market and such.
Bill gates is a control freak, an egotistical sociopathic narcissistic psychopath, this land will give him even more power over the remaining serfs after agenda 21, world recession and the plausible world war that is predicted. His motives are not altruistic at all, he has no interest in us 'Plebs' except that we should and will serve him, those of us that are left. The term Hegemonic Plutocracy springs to mind, Democracy such as it is at present is dying, it has become a fallacy!
I hear Bezos plans to by a jungle. He'll call it Amazon forest.
Correction: Amazon Rainforest ®
If he actually did buy it, it might be managed better than it is now.
He will lose his shirt as usual.
Others tried and failed.
Ford , Ludwig the paper pulp baron.
There is a thing about Brazilians thought....
They will find ways to sell you what it is non transferable through deed.
And then they will make sure you , the buyer , lose every cent in making a go through the investment.
And then the alienated land will either become public domain or private property.
lol
@@jordanz434 Correction: Future Amazon Desert!
Ask him how much he pays in taxes on that land and you'll find out we're probably paying him
There should be a law that prohibits so much land ownership for one person or organization.
Agree! This planet is a joke!! It's like nobody cares about anyone anymore, it's all about who can make the most profits and buy the most crap!
🤝👏...
That’s communism and if you want that live in china 🇨🇳
exactly or a cap on how many years you can hold it if its a huge amount
Fiction to use in attempts to cause what behavior when lying about a slave whos most likely being actively tortured?
"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside"
~Grapes of Wrath
The bigger picture here is they want to control sources of food and basics so they can control you. For instance by causing artificial shortages when you refuse to behave ... Just last year they told potato farmers to destroy their harvest to cause shortages...They also encouraged dairy farmers to discard milk instead of making cheese with it... They have also been targeting meat consumption ....They want you to eat plants only or lab made burgers which can alter your biology irreversibly..mess your hormones etc.....
These same people are the ones crying the earth is overpopulated have enough land and room to feed and house a million people. Hypocrites are trash
Geez ya gotta wonder
@@jarednovel would you rather china own it?
@@kristingallo2158 we are all hypocrites.
The billionaire is just a new term for kings, lords, dukes, and earles.
He helped cultivate Covid. And don't say he didn't I heard what he said out his mouth. Sad. And the Mosquitos yeah.
So, we're going back to tenant farmers and the owner class. Sounds like midieval England. Yay....
Get back to work you serf! Lol
So when there will be a Backlash all around the World against the self-Chosen People, they can blame the Patriots again. Except this time They won’t be able to flee Europe to the US. They have their own country now so send them all there.
IT NEVER STOPPED EVEN ONE DAY, WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN, THEY DID IT THAT YEAR TOO
And a lot of Britain is still like that to this day. Friends of mine lease a farm from The Queen. There are thousands of acres in the hands of the gentry like the Duke of Buccleuch and the occasional Arab sheikh.
Neighbouring farms all around me here in Scotland are leased. I was told one piece was to go up for sale locally, an area I was very interested in - and it was bought before it even went on auction.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was watching a video that said something like 196,000 acres of American farmland is in the hands of the Chinese. How does that even happen?
The trouble is, it's now common knowledge that farming practices must change in order to prevent continued erosion, etc, with rewilding at least a part of it to safeguard soils, water courses, and wild species.
How is that going to be possible if the likes of Bezos wants to continue making money out of land by leasing to farmers and driving up the value of land?
Welcome to modern feudalism. It exists in every Industry. Huge hedge funds and private corporations are silently buying up all commercial, industrial, residential, and agricultural real estate at an alarming rate. Blackstone and invitation homes are a couple of the biggest. They are in bed with the government. These covid lockdowns and eviction moratoriums were nothing but a clever strategical land grab for the ultra wealthy. Forcing small businesses and small landlords to go bankrupt, buying the property up for pennies on the dollar from the banks.
Communities should pool their resources together to control their own means of food production, and cut the billionaires out.
karl marx smiles from heaven
Then who owns those farms? You wouldn’t have 1 million people listed as the land owner, it would usually be one or a trust organisation. What would the people benefit from this? In the end, the land owners will just sell again to the rich and keep all the money. The reason a Community will never do this is because only a few people would gain from it. People will always want to go cheaper and the same people will always want more money, as it makes sense. Why do you think most people go to a supermarket rather than a butchers? Because it’s about 1/2 the price at the super market. Only a few will try to help, the rest will be selfish.
@Kryle Whole towns an cities could come together with the help of the municipal government if necessary. You don't need the same amount of land that these billionaires own. You just need enough to sustain your own community. What's the alternative? Become an indentured servant? Till the land for Lord Gates for your share of rations until he decides to raise prices.
@@vordenkar6615 what makes you think he's in heaven?
@@vordenkar6615 Better than a plutocracy, which in effect is a dictatorship.
I feel like we’re 20 years from the hunger games becoming real life.
More like 3-5 years, if not sooner :-/
My god, you people love conspiracy theories so much. It's his choice or not if he wants to buy farmland
@@CoreTradingMastery famine is coming
@@melvindrakeford3108 Source?
@@CoreTradingMastery ua-cam.com/video/UO5N5nPPwGA/v-deo.html
Bible as well
The next move is to privatize all government land: public private partners total fascism=new world order
UN AGENDA 21
UN AGENDA 2030
In the current climate of increasing shortages this is getting scary that the super elite are buying up agri land, adds to concerns of what's coming next
Money is going to be useless and assets will be the new currency
The whores they own in the Government will tax us out of any farm land. "You will own nothing and be happy".....or we'll throw you in a forced labor camp for wrong think.
Just give it 30 years and the old politicians and CEOs will be dust in the wind
@@prince_ofmadness True government is printing more of it.
They want to control what we eat and how much we eat. Like in the bible Revelation 6:5-6 a days wages for a loaf of wheat bread. The 4 horsemen of Revelation
Own the land...control the food...control everyone who has to eat. That goes hand in hand with people who WANT to give themselves over.
Question remains what are people gonna do about it??
Yee idk how Zion feels about that . Mf might just create euphoria
If he controls the food, he controls all of us. There's no telling what he's planning to put in our food.
He's not growing anything
@Zato Ichi nope nothing
All of these farms burning down all across the US is a bit suspicious.
The wicked are in controlled can't be trusted
Good Point, what is he planning on putting in our food? We know it won't be beef! But you can bet they are farming rivers and fresh water sources. Soon they will be fencing the rivers and streams off. Anything these people do is never as simple as it seems. Why just control the food source when you can control much more.
Their buying up these acres should be against the law.
Why? That would mean the government own the land.
@@EvidentlyFirerather them than gates
@@realmclassic51That's communism...
This guy was friends with epstien after his wife told him to stop. I dont trust this guy but he's more powerful than you think
His wife never told him anything. Don't believe all women.
She didn’t say anything. They simply came to the conclusion that it would be bad press for the foundation they have. I don’t trust that lady at all. Very controlling and manipulative. she cares more about power than bill ever could.
Not to mention he's friends with WHO. He exposed himself as a manipulative power hungry control freak.
He wants you to eat fake meat to “save the planet”
@@jamiec4478 and they want us to eat worms and insects. 🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑🚨🛑
What could go wrong with accumulating all the assets that gave middle class families security and wealth, transferring it to the extremely wealthy, then having no access to those resources for the people who will use and work those properties except through constantly changing lease structures? The super wealthy have always been known to give a great deal when they know they have a monopoly on a good.
Smart Bill. Work hard and achieve the same.
@@archersbeready6229 you realize the way the system is setup rich people can be investors from whatever age they are educated on the subject and thus do not need to work or provide anything to society but continue to pillage the poor and middle class. It's no longer work hard an acheive but work hard to scrape by. What do you suppose the generous billionaires will price food at when theres no more farmland?
Millions will starve control the food control the people .. the day my family spends more calories looking for food than the food itself it the day I go hunting
@@archersbeready6229 Elon Musk says he is mediocre. I believe Elon Musk.
@@JC-hp7pc he is an idiot....Driven by idiocy as well....and no I do not wish I could or would or was like/or had the money he has. Our graves are all the same depth. I'm sure HIS will be a damn mansion 😂
The problem with leasing is that it gives no incentive for a farmer to invest in the land by using perennial crops and actually building the soil
A phenomenon called Tragedy of the Commons
That's a very good point.
Long term lease…Smart businessmen make the best profits by the increase in value of the land, not the lease itself. They’d prefer the farmer to do whatever is healthiest to the soil and crops because that can increase the value of the land/soil…
@@jacob.brandw I mean how long term can a lease really be though? They would prefer the farmer do whatever is healthiest but that doesn't mean the farmer actually has incentive to do that. If the farmer wants to plant fruit trees they wouldn't start producing fruit at the very earliest 3 years depending on the cultivar and that probably won't be at full vigor. If you want to plant a chestnut tree (which we desperately need to start investing in) it won't start producing at full vigor for 10 years. That's so many years of lease to not make any money from a crop, just to potentially stop working the land when the lease is over. Most annual crops by their nature "mine" soil fertility, especially when grown in tilled monocultures like is widely practiced in modern ag. This contributes to climate change, ecosystem collapse. We need to invest in perennial crops that build soil instead. But leasing provides a disincentive for that for the farmer. To maximize profits for the duration of the lease they are better off pumping out annual crops like corn/soy.
@@jacob.brandw watched a video yesterday about the change to regenerative agriculture which is the future we need in the industry. Farms that grow regenerative are able to sell carbon credits for each acre they farm however to do so they’re on a 10 year contract and that soil has to be farmed regeneratively and not be tilled for that time. If the land is leased than it’s a huge risk to sign that contract and therefore farmers don’t have the incentive to move to bore beneficial practices.
We're on the verge of mass conversion of farmland from ownership by farmers to ownership by large corporations.
Looks indeed like that. Farmers are just working for companies which set the prices as they please. Modern slavery....
@@vilear that's right. The banks dictate what farmers do on the basis of minimizing risk to themselves rather than maximizing potential profit. The average farmer is approaching retirement, is heavily leveraged, and no one without very deep pockets can afford to buy them out.
Worked for Ancient Rome, no?🤣
The clowns are already here!
In China's long history, when lands went to a few rich families, the end of dynasty came with it. Because landless farmers had to take whatever cost the landlords asked. Poor farmers went bankeupt and couldn't pay the tax. Then they became homeless. The government couldn't collect taxes from rich people because rich people controlled the tax policy. This was the stories of agriculture age. I am not sure if it applies to industry age.
It does,sadly.
When an elite ownes much of the land and doesn't pay taxes it doesn't end well in Europe either. That's basically what caused the French Revolution.
Yes. China learned this long ago which is why so many people own lands now.
@@DeclanMBrennan Yes. They are using Celebrities, Music, Sports and all that good stuff to try and control people.
@@chrisp7110 In Ancient Rome they use the Colosseum to provide BREAD AND CIRCUSES entertainment to divert the masses from their real problems and issues. But this technique did not last long and in the end the Western Roman Empire collapses and was overrun by Barbarians.
"80% of that rented farmland is owned by landlords who don't farm themselves" This is exactly what China was like a few hundred years ago.
1. Small farmers do not have the financial means to take risks.
2. Crop failures caused by natural/man-made disasters leads to famine and bankruptcy of small farmers.
2. Rich and powerful family clans exploit this and acquire lands at unfair prices from small farmers.
3. They then rent the farmlands back to the same/other small farmers who sold their land.
4. Peasants continue farming but pay either a certain percentage (usually more than 50%) or a fixed amount of their harvest each year to the landlords.
5. Towards the end of each dynasty the rich landlords who do not farm themselves have accumulated ~80% of the total farmlands.
6. Rich landlords pay less taxes per unit of farmland because they have the necessary connections/private security forces to avoid paying taxes.
7. The increasing peasant rebellions and decreasing taxes collected by the government each year eventually causes the dynasty to collapse.
8. A new dynasty is founded with a more equal distribution of wealth. Then the same cycle repeats.
As far as I can see China today is roughly at step 5 and the US is roughly at step 6. More than half of the people already cannot afford a house and/or living paycheck to paycheck. As wealth gap increases we will eventually see another round of rebellions, no matter if it's called a communist revolution, Arab spring or occupy wall street. It's just humanity and it's an infinite loop.
Theyre both closer to 7 and 8.
Also now that farmland is centralized and commoditized its easier to transfer to where the best returns are so land can be sold to the deep pockets of the CCP. Most of Australia is owned by CCP property companies and there is little record of who is being the fronts used to purchase the land. Colonization by stealth.
China is buying our farmland also, I give us less then 50 yrs before we implode.
@@mr.majestic2667 2030 or 2050 at the latest.
@@soaceba China is a bit different today.
In the US you have corruptions (including legalized corruptions) and maybe a "deep state" but the people in generally attribute the souce of their problems to the Republicans/Democrats, the whites/blacks/Latinos/Asians, the immigrants and the poor/the upper middle class, rather than just the ultra rich. So even if the US fails the ultra rich multinational corporation owners can still be intact living in places like Europe, Australia and Canada.
In China however both the wealth and the political powers are owned by the same communist princeling family clans. If the CCP dynasty collapses the Chinese people will demand to hunt these ultra rich communist party leaders down and China being a powerful country will find them no matter where they hide. So although in China the ultra rich/CCP leaders are just as greedy and have unprecedented power to extract wealth from the people, they will not be cheap when it comes down to making sure the system is stable.
Also in China the biggest local landlords these days are not individual families anymore but the local governments. If I purchase a new property in China today most of the money goes to the local government. Depending on the city and the project the cost of land acquisition accounts for anywhere between 50% to 97% of the total purchase price of a new home. And those lands are usually village homes or farmlands before being sold to the real estate developers, basically costs nothing for the local governments.
To sum it up, in ancient China the people are slaves of the ultra rich and the state is owned by one of those ultra rich families. In modern China the people are the slaves of the state and a few ultra rich families shares the state's ownership. In the US the state is shared by the ultra rich and the people but the people are deluded to believe the ultra rich is not the biggest trouble maker, and the ultra rich also have shares elsewhere.
oh man i hope Farmer's are going to be ok i would never sell my farmland for those stupid rich people.
It's called "Being in control of the food supplies."
Not good
China owns some 900 million acres of American farmland, feel free to look it up.
The government controls the food supply not Bill Gates. If you looking for the real culprit it's the government. Will you people alone. Less than 2% of the land and you're making an issue that they're trying to control food supply???
Our food supply has been controlled for decades. Look at the labels on the produce you buy. Wake the hell up. Stop listening to such nonsense and being so easily influenced. Learn how to think
Communism, as communism has always happened. He's doing exactly what Stalin and Mao did.
@@relicpathfinder2800 Chinese people are always smart. So that’s normal.
So we are basically going back to the ancient feudal system where the handful of landowners own all the land and the peasant majority has to work for them for pittance.
We never left.
I believe that's why they keep opening up the border. They're beefing up the serf class for a reason!
We never left, except we are leaving because the plan is for the peasants to be robots (I’ll leave it to the reader to figure out where we or our children or grandchildren will be.)
The caucasian way
Peasants shall be limited to a controllable, global population of 500 million.
- Georgia Guide Stones
Business model : You do the worry and work, and I’ll raise the lease cost every year.
Except that many of the tenant farmers have happily farmed the same land for decades
Its happening because the governmnt isn't doing anything to stop it. Cap1talism has failed, not because of "inequal1ty" of the p o o r or any inherent "unfairnesss" to the low income but because of corrruption between the pol1tical elt1es and utra wealthy cr1minals like G a t e s, So rose, B e z o s, etc. Quite s a d.
The land1ord can spend some time and $ to find out the big data on clam aite change to crops spicies. Winery can't fruit in draught.
Btw, Isn't it what so called Feu dal1sm? In 2021? How about by stock option or %of profit?
@@eorr7595 sorry but tenant farmers choose the crops, not the owner
@@briansimmons8643 I’m curious. if you post this same comment one hundred times in different threads does it make the bs more true or less true?
Bill Gates is a man of Success not of VALUE !
Wait until they start putting houses / hotels on their Monopoly squares.
Best UA-cam comment ever!!!
You only do that if there is a demand of housing that people can live in.
@@gilbertplays A demand for housing? Oh yeah, there's plenty of that! :)
And all the while,our taxes go up because they paid too much,and then roll it over after a couple of land improvements.
@@jasonmartinez9051 Not where most farmland is located.
Farmers who own their land have an incentive to conserve the quality of the soil. What incentive does a lessee have to preserve the productivity and quality of the soil over more than one generation?
well they're not using the land, so i dont think the quality will erode
but that is why we need an LVT anyways
@@msk1340 I don't understand what you mean by "they are not using the land"? This video is about people who lease farmland from land owners and then the lessees do the farming in the land they are renting. Farming can be very intensive on soil - farmers must be careful to replenish the nutrients in soil, to protect the soil from erosion, and to prevent the contamination of the soil with anything toxic. Farmers who own their land and value it's productivity over decades and centuries have an incentive to pay attention to those issues, even if it means bringing in a little less money in any given year. But a lessee would be incentivized to squeeze as much profit out of the soil as possible with the least investment. A lessee who can just move on to a different plot of land when this one is depleted has no reason to spend time and energy keeping this one productive over the long term.
I don't have strong opinions about land value taxes but I don't see how "farmer has to pay more the more their land is worth" contributes to "making sure the land's long term sustainable value is maximized".
@@zarfmouse when they sign a contract with the lessee, it probably includes something about maintaining the land. but regardless, i agree about the farmers thing. but you have to realize, so do the billionaire owners, so they would also do something similar
@@zarfmouse Interesting perspective. On the other hand big owners , specially those who built his wealth in other sectors , can use their wealth and network to improve agricultural techniques and tecnology because they can tolerate the burden of not having profits for a longer period of time. Also , they could find valuable other things than profit. Social and enviromental impact for example.
good point
When Peterffy said "young farmers are just as happy to lease" I realized he either actually believes this or he's an amazing liar. Which one is scarier?
He is buying the land so that people can no longer ranch. He invested heavily in those fake meat industries.
U will own nothing and be happy!
@@annemaster5254 WEF quote!
Hey Bill, why won't you invest in eco-friendly eyewear frame materials like bamboo? You know plastic ends up in landfill and the oceans where it enters the food chain, negatively affecting human health. Sadly the eyewear industry is a major source of this waste.
The future seems really dark. I'm actually no longer afraid of death. It seems better than the future of the US does.
In the United States of America, there will be Five Lean Years, 2020 - 2025. COVID-19, Covid 16, Start eating the Coronavirus antibody. The antidote for Coronavirus is at........
Relatable feeling
Nothing ever truly dies. Energy can't be destroyed 🤔
@@333Kdigital I agree. That's also another reason I don't fear death anymore. It's likely not even really an end. But if the alternative is to be treated like cattle by a bunch of psychopathic billionaires on this prison planet then screw it, death sounds lovely.
Thinkin to much
When money doesn’t stand for gold, it has to stand for something. The rich have decided that it is land.
You still believing that story ? Billy boy wants us to eat fake meat. Why is he so interested in farmland ? Control of food to push is agenda
Absolutely
The governmnt is the one allowing this ev1l to happen. Will no one question why?
@@briansimmons8643 years of free market propaganda
China owns more U.S. farmland than these guys combined.
The goal here is to control the fresh water supply. It is estimated that we will soon run out of fresh drinkable water and will need to tap into natural resources. If you look at where they own these lands, you will find they are mostly near fresh spring water locaions.
Ever heard of rainwater harvesting. People are just lazy.
You’re 100% correct. Over the last decade there’s been a frenzy for farm land with fresh water access.
Not just that but he is buying the land so that people can no longer ranch (cows and livestock need a water source). He invested heavily in those fake meat industries.
With the zero emissions plan u will be allowed a 10 min shower once a week, no watering u r lawn, and if u collect rainwater that’s contaminated too by chemtrails, no gas to power u r farm machinery!, no wood stoves either bc u will be harming Mother Nature! Careful what u r told about global warming...it’s NOT man!
We're running out of water cause of animal agriculture...cartel especially...read mad cowboy..it's 20 yes old but might as well be written today as it's still so relevant..
1) own the pharmacies 2) own all the food sources 3) contaminate the food source 4) medicate the sick from food contamination 5) profit
Increasingly, generation by generation, day by day we evolve and become slaves to our masters.
Medieval nobleman: This land is granted to me by the King, and I lease it to you for rent. Your earnings will be used to pay the lease.
Modern businessman: I buy the land from the marketplace, and I lease it to you for rent. Your earnings will be used to pay the lease.
Yea, sharecropping and peasantry in the 21st century!!!
I like your account. It's not fair that you get to keep it for yourself. Why don't you share comrade?
oh yes communism has worked so well in every country where it's been tried.
@@ronblack7870 and how well is our current system working here in the US?
@@theaconite1400 fantastic, food is dirt cheap.
@@ronblack7870 it actually has worked in countries like yugoslavia and ussr after stalin and in Burkina faso under thomas sankara, and in Nicaragua and other latin american countries but the US has always intervened and installed dictators and made them reliant on the US.
Hmmm ... Sounds like there`s going to be an incoming manufactured food shortage .
That's the end goal. Indian government just passed agriculture laws that allow for contract farming, eliminated hoarding laws and regulations and preparing to set up private markets. One big corporation just happened to be building massive storage facilities just years before the laws were passed. The big corporations want to control the food supply. Check out farmers protests going on in India for almost a year.
@@berniedoodle5134 native American Indians are from India
@@chaunceysimmons4030 lol what
@@berniedoodle5134 I'm Native American we don't like being called Indians it's the Native American government
@@chaunceysimmons4030 lol
The true question is: who is selling the land to him?
That was a surprisingly good story. Farmers currently keep 14 cents of every Ag dollar. That’s not enough to live on. We need resilient farms with direct supplier to consumer relationships to make farming profitable enough so that farmers aren’t forced to sell their lands to people with bad motives. Make a difference-buy directly from farmers.
Billionaires are investing in farmland because it's the best way for them to preserve their fortune for generations. In the long term, no one knows what the financial system will be. Will people still regard gold as valuable? Will USD still be the reserve currency of the world? Will internet companies like Google still be relevant in 40-50 years time? What is certain is that people will still need food to survive and that food will grow in these farmlands, essentially securing the farmlands' value.
Good news about Jesus Christ! When you first come to him, He completely erases/ forgives your past! You will not be punished for anything bad that you’ve done! Here’s how!
(2 Corinthians 5:17)- “If anyone is in Christ, He is a new creation: The old has gone, and the new has come!
(Explanation of the Bible verse above):
Whenever a person decides to turn their lives to God (and start living by the Bible), they will NOT be punished or penalized for any of their past sins before coming to God. Yes, a clean slate! Or A clean record!
This is what Christians mean when they say they’ve been “reborn” or “born again.” (To have their past erased completely and forgiven!)- a chance at redemption to start their lives fresh.
(So for example), if a prison inmate/ criminal decides to confess to his wrong doings, and ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness, Jesus is more than generous enough to forgive him and erase his past completely and give that man a fresh start at life! Yes, A chance at redemption to turn his life around and do the right things this time around.
This is what Christians call a “repentance.”
“A True Repentance”, (in a biblical sense), is when a person feels guilty, or remorseful or sorry for what they did in their past, so they confess and ask God for forgiveness, and then follow through with turning away from those things which they are sorry for. It’s a complete life turn around. Basically the act of becoming a better person!
(Acts 3:19)- “Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.”
(Proverbs 28:13)- “Whoever conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
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25 percent of cropland is used for ethanol production, the same goes for food for animal meat. Both of that will be killed long term by electric cars and artificial meat.
@@priestfultonjwingbajr1430 No
Easy solution: raise taxes (especially the Inheritance Tax also fallaciously called the Death Tax) on the 1% and corporations, back to rates of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration.
People like Gates make it sound like a savior. In reality he is in it for himself and his family. Luckily the great equalizer is that he will not live forever.
I was waiting for them to mention the fact that when they buy the land, they are also buying the water rights to the land. With increasing droughts in the west, that is the real investment. Good video all the same :)
Why is the governmnt allowing this to happen? This is the end of our democrtic republ1c. It should NOT be happening if the governmnt would do its job and stop these m a n i a c s from buying more than a certain amount of land.
The people DEMAND the governmnt stop these billlionaires from buying all this land. Its w r o n g on every conceivable level despite what the l y i n' meedeeuh says.
It’s genius and evil at the same time
@@briansimmons8643 You answered your own question.
@@briansimmons8643 Sandra Day O'Conner is rolling in her grave.
68 years old and still hoarding like he gonna keep it forever.
"You will own nothing and you'll be happy." Arm yourselves people, a storm is coming.
Why you hate capitalism???
Look at Australia... Gave up their guns... Now complete fascism
@@zagzagel420 Australia was having live in person rugby matches just 5 months ago tho! The US NFL couldn't even do that!
@@jacksevert3099 Nice red herring. Stay on point.
@@gwreevesReeves no red herring just facts over feelings! Australia has least covid deaths and they were more free than America just 5 months ago! Its just facts over feelings don't be brainwashed!
Who ever controls the food/land WILL Control the people
You are right people not talking about that Control the land control the people put any chemical you want in it
As population is increases, the need of land is clearly huge so the land price will not be drop! Land is one of better investment than bitcoin, gold!
People don't want to admit it is human population is the root cause of most problems. Humans need to slow down reproduction or we're going to have a huge resource problem.
Well, good for us I guess that the modern woman is brainwashed to not have children because it doesn't allow them to be as 'spontaneous' and 'a free spirit'.
Agree farmland will always be worth something!!
Gold is also a good investment. It doesn't depreciate because the cost of mining is greater than its value by the gram.
not so fast, population will peak at 10-12 B and you will still have landgrabbing all over the world that keep yields low
I’ve lived in Wyoming and Utah most of my life. I lived in Logan the home of Utah State University, home of the Aggies, where Agricultural science was the origin of the school. I’ve known farmers, ranchers and dairymen. I know for a fact it kills them to have to sell off their land-especially to people like these jerk rich guys.
Warren Buffet always talk about buying a farm... Bill buying farms...
Warren: That was not what I meant...
You wanna live forever type this into UA-cam....
garry brown-live forever
Warren Buffet's son is a big landowner too.
Did he mean Farm Uh?
@@hemiedwards217 no he’s not. Buffets son farms less than 2000 but of course his dad owns a good bit