{"id":1570082,"date":"2022-07-25T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570082"},"modified":"2022-07-25T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:22:33","slug":"bill-gates-should-testify-before-congress-over-huge-farmland-buy-gop-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-should-testify-before-congress-over-huge-farmland-buy-gop-lawmaker-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Should Testify Before Congress Over Huge Farmland Buy, GOP Lawmaker Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-should-testify-before-congress-over-huge-farmland-buy-gop-lawmaker-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) sent a letter to House Agriculture Committee chairman David Scott (D-Ga.), requesting that Microsoft co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bill-gates\">Bill Gates<\/a> testify before the committee regarding the billionaire\u2019s large farmland purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Gates is the \u201clargest private farmland owner\u201d in the United States, possessing almost 270,000 acres of farmland in 19 states, the July 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/583348439\/Rep-Dusty-Johnson-letter-calling-for-Bill-Gates-to-testify-before-Congress-farmland-buying?secret_password=95IZxYfbc5DyU1G6lTCi\">letter<\/a> states. The average farm size in 2021 was only 445 acres, Johnson said citing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Economic Research Service. Gates\u2019s farmland holdings in the United States are a \u201csignificant\u201d portion that the committee \u201cshould not ignore,\u201d while asking that the billionaire be brought in to testify about his \u201cfarming interests and practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee should be interested in Mr. Gates\u2019 ownership and plans for his acreage, as he has been a leading voice in the push for \u2018synthetic meat.\u2019 In 2021, Mr. Gates was quoted to say \u2018all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef\u2019 to combat climate change,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>In a July 23 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDustyJohnson\/status\/1550563269059936262\">tweet<\/a>, Johnson called Gates an \u201coutspoken opponent\u201d of traditional agriculture. The world\u2019s food supply could be at risk if Gates decided to put this much land \u201cout of production,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Gates\u2019s 270,000 acres of farmland holdings is almost equivalent to the size of Hong Kong, but\u00a0it only represents a small part of an estimated 911 million acres of farmland in the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Acres of Farmland <\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s letter comes as Gates\u2019s organization, Red River Trust, was recently approved to buy 2,100 acres of prime farmland in North Dakota. The state\u2019s attorney general, Drew Wrigley, cleared the sale on June 29. The deal was approved because it complied with an anti-corporate farming law, with the land intended to be leased back for use by farmers.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/north-dakota-gives-green-light-to-bill-gates-farmland-purchase_4571287.html\">interview<\/a> with NTD, land consultant Gary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) sent a letter to House Agriculture Committee chairman David Scott (D-Ga.), requesting that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates testify before the committee regarding the billionaire\u2019s large farmland purchases. Gates is the \u201clargest private farmland owner\u201d in the United States, possessing almost 270,000 acres of farmland in 19 states, the July 20 letter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}