America's largest farmland owner (242,000 acres)

chaffcutter

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Visited King Ranch in 2000. Fascinating history, they are on the Gulf coast and the water they were pumping for the stock was becoming more and more saline, so they were close to going bankrupt. Started deep drilling to try for clean water, and struck oil instead!
They had not long started arable cropping then, only about ten yrs iirc, but they had 56000 acres of crops by then. Their Santa Gertrudis cattle, their own breed, were wonderful stock.
 

Farmer Roy

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Visited King Ranch in 2000. Fascinating history, they are on the Gulf coast and the water they were pumping for the stock was becoming more and more saline, so they were close to going bankrupt. Started deep drilling to try for clean water, and struck oil instead!
They had not long started arable cropping then, only about ten yrs iirc, but they had 56000 acres of crops by then. Their Santa Gertrudis cattle, their own breed, were wonderful stock.

Santa cattle are very well adapted to our climate & are quite popular.
I think the first Quarter Horses in Australia came from King Ranch as well. I know my ex father in law went over to look at them back in the day, with his boss
 

Farmer Roy

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A quick google search reveals the largest cattle ranch in the US is the Wagonner Estate in Texas, with around 200,000 hectares ( 500,000 acres )
But that is “ranch land”. Is the original article differentiating between “farmland” ( arable ??? ) & ranching ?
 

le bon paysan

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John Malone owns 2.2million acres,
Ted Turner is second with 2million and the biggest private buffalo herd in the world at around 50,000head.
King ranch is 10th
 
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Farmer Roy

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That‘s very small compared to many of the properties in your country. Anna Creek in South Australia is 2.4 million hectares

haha yes - I just posted that.

As for private ownership, at one point Peter Sherwin owned 300,000 head of cattle & owned 1% of Australia’s landmass . . .

More locally, Ron Greentree ( you would of heard of him if you were around Moree back in the day ) was at one time the largest private ( not corporate ) wheat grower in the world, with over 100,000 acres grown
 

Brisel

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haha yes - I just posted that.

As for private ownership, at one point Peter Sherwin owned 300,000 head of cattle & owned 1% of Australia’s landmass . . .

More locally, Ron Greentree ( you would of heard of him if you were around Moree back in the day ) was at one time the largest private ( not corporate ) wheat grower in the world, with over 100,000 acres grown

It‘s all relative. Anna Creek is listed as only carrying 9,500 cattle thanks to being on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Lots of farm units with far bigger numbers of head than that. I don’t remember Ron Greentree, but I didn’t get out much when I was there other than to the coast when it rained or the local bottle shop occasionally.
 

Farmer Roy

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John Malone owns 2.2million acres,
Ted Turner is second with 2million and the biggest private buffalo herd in the world at around 50,000head.
King ranch is 10th

that’s what I thought.

makes Bill Gates look like a bit of a nobody . . .

how does the original article then claim him to be the biggest ?

unless it’s purely arable, rather than agriculture in general, or something like that ?
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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