
His ranches include more than 45,000 bison.Turner, media mogul and founder of CNN, has made a mission to promote ecological sustainability.Ted Turner owns Ranches with cattle in Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, South Dakota, New Mexico as well as Argentina.This foundation has also funneled money into research and development of so-called super crops that are able to flourish even during climate change.In 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation allocated $306 million in grants to aid high-yield, sustainable farming for farmers with smaller lots in the Sahara Desert in Africa and in South Asia. Buying farmland hasn’t been the sole way Gates has supported agriculture.His largest holdings are in: Louisiana (69,100 acres), Arkansas (48,000 acres), Nebraska 20,500 acres.Gates kept his farmland purchases private, but it was recently revealed that he has amassed enough acreage to be the largest private farmland owner in the county.


