Maine has the second largest amount of foreign held agricultural acres with 2,, and Washington has the third largest amount of foreign held agricultural land with 1,, acres, which is 7. Hawaii has the second largest percentage of foreign held U.
Washington , Alabama and Florida follow. Kansas, Washington and Wisconsin showed the biggest increases in foreign-held agricultural acres in The increases were primarily due to the execution of long-term leasehold interests by wind energy companies. Canadian investors own the most reported foreign held agricultural and non-agricultural land , with 28 percent, or 7,, acres. Foreign persons from the Netherlands own 19 percent, Germany owns 7, the United Kingdom owns 6 and Portugal owns 5.
Together, 9,, acres or 36 percent of foreign-held acres are owned by individuals or entities from these countries. Fifty-two percent of the land is timber or forest with cropland accounting for only 19 percent of the total acres. Foreign held pasture and other agricultural land totals 27 percent of all foreign interest holdings in the United States. Nonagriculture land including homestead and roads commonly reported as part of the agricultural land or land that is idle now, but its last use in the past 5 years was agricultural accounts for approximately 2 percent.
Between and , foreign landholdings in cropland and pasture land increased. During this time period, cropland increased from roughly 2,, acres to 4,, acres , and pastureland increased from approximately 4,, acres to 5,, These changes are mostly due to foreign-owned wind companies executing long-term leases on large numbers of acres; however, the acres actually utilized by said companies are very few due to the small footprint of the wind towers erected on the land.
Read the whole report here [PDF]. Last year, the organization announced Gates Ag One, a nonprofit to advance those efforts. Cottonwood Ag Management, a subsidiary of Cascade, is a member of Leading Harvest, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable agriculture standards that prioritize protections of crops, soil and water resources. CNN founder Ted Turner ranked number three with 2 million acres of ranch land across eight states.
Even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is investing in land on a large scale, landing the 25th spot with his ownership of , acres, mainly in west Texas. I am a reporter at Forbes covering the business of music, comedy and podcasting.
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