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It profiles leading landowners and compiles the Land Report 100, an annual ranking of America's largest landowners. The editorial staff also reports on topics such as significant properties, landmark transactions, market news, investing, and conservation, as well as legislation and judicial decisions affecting landowners.
The people and organizations who own the most land in the world own millions -- and in the case of the top landowner -- billions of acres of land. Many of the top 10 largest landowners are...
Trailing just Russia and Canada, the United States is the third-largest country in the world by landmass, covering nearly 2.3 billion acres. The largest overall landowner in the country is the U.S ...
Brad Maurice Kelley (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the 9th largest landowner in the U.S., [1] with an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion in 2018. [2] He founded the Commonwealth Brands tobacco company in 1991 and sold the company in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. [3]
Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson (born 1929) is the founder of Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber products company that operates in California, Oregon and Washington.With 2.33 million acres, Emmerson and his family rank as America's largest private landowners, according to a profile [1] by Eric O’Keefe in the 2021 Land Report 100.
John Malone, the press-shy chairman of media conglomerate Liberty Media, has just been named the largest individual landowner in the nation with a whopping 2,200,000 acres John Malone, Media Mogul ...
He became a target of farmer grievances. He was the largest American landowner in his day, and his descendants still control major properties. . Scully started by buying unused land warrants given to veterans of the Mexican-American War. He then worked with new railroads which had land grants. They needed farmers on their lands.
Malone is ranked as the second-largest private landowner in the United States, possessing 2.2 million acres (890,000 hectares), which is more than twice the size of Rhode Island. According to The Land Report's annual rankings, Malone ranked as the largest landowner in America from 2011 to 2021. [5]