Posted on 03/13/2022 2:16:14 PM PDT by Starman417
Thanks for the tips, I’m guessing you will need to transplant those to a bigger container later. Later, won’t the plant need more room for rooting, or has that been enough?
I am still learning the options and just asking.
I don’t know enough on indoor veg. gardening to ‘correct’ anybody.
I probably need to wait till about Memorial Day to plant some Jalapeno Peppers, in or outside. I have learned that my mouth and throat can handle most pickled peppers if I take my time while chewing them up. Wonder if my neighbor Pete Piper will be growing some too?
Some varieties need even bigger. Last year I tried Big Boy
and 'Goliath' plants in 5 gallon pots. They did just okay.
To produce more and larger tomatoes than they did, they
need bigger pots than tiny 5 gallon.
So this year I'm still doing 5 gallon pots, but putting
Early Girl and Roma Plum variety plants in them.
They are smaller plants. They work fine - I've done them
successfully many times before.
I'm not going to repeat last year's experiment with the
huge tomato plant varieties.
What percent of that is out of 900,000,000 acres of US farmland?
Amen!
Out of over 11 million acres of farmland, gates is going to control the food supply.
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In the grand scheme of things 269,000 acres of farmland ain’t squat.
He started small in 2004, he bought 11 properties, including nine houses, that surround his 5-acre Medina, Wash., estate, creating a buffer zone that is increasingly turning a small hillside neighborhood into a private holding.
“There’s not too many non-Gates property owners left here,” said Herb Schwartz, a former insurance executive who moved into the Medina neighborhood 13 years ago.”The properties, totaling 4.2 acres, were acquired by a representative for the Microsoft co-founder between 1994 and 2003 at a cost of nearly $14.4 million, according to property records.
Now he is buying massive acreage in multiple states using different corporations: corporate mailing address for Angelina is the same as that for Cottonwood Ag Management, an agriculture asset management team for BMGI / Cascade Investment, the private holding company for Bill and Melinda.
Gates. i.e. 14,500-acre farmland property in southern Washington for $171 million: focus on sweetcorn and wheat. Also, AZ, LA WA, GA FL & probably more. Also, buyer of a group of farmland assets sold by the C$366.3 billion ($258 billion; €221 billion) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $520 million.
Apparently, he is interested in everything: “
“A source familiar with US farmland markets told Agri Investor they believed Angelina Ag to contain a 26,000-acre property in Monterey, Louisiana formerly owned by Bernard Ebbers, a co-founder of failed communications company WorldCom, and reportedly sold for $31 million in 2006.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Caroline Orlowski, who currently serves as an asset manager at Cottonwood, previously worked as an assistant general manager for farm and grain at Oak River Farms, a role described as managing a 25,000-acre farming operation in Monterey, Louisiana.
Acknowledging that a great degree of uncertainty surrounds the corporate structure behind Gates’s farmland investments and stressing their view was based on second-hand information, the source said the 2006 purchase had been among the first significant agriculture investments by the Microsoft founder.
The source said they believed Cottonwood to be a broader management company currently overseen by former MetLife managing director Peter Headley, under which subsidiaries like Angelina have been established around specific regions or portfolios of acquired properties.”
Alan Busacca, a wine industry consultant who was formerly a professor of soil science and agriculture at Washington State University, told Agri Investor that the Horse Heaven Hills region where Angelina reportedly made its purchase is among the most productive in Washington for irrigated agriculture. Among the crops grown in the region, according to Busacca, are apples, cherries, carrots and potatoes, though the land purchased by Angelina is best suited to irrigated row and field crops.
“It [the property acquired by Angelina] does not have the rolling-hill character and the higher elevations that are commonly needed for permanent crops like tree-fruit and wine grapes,” he explained.
Investor interest in the region has grown significantly in recent years, said Busacca, who added that land prices in the area have been heavily influenced by water access. People began converting what had previously been cattle-grazing land near the Columbia River during the 1960s and 1970s, said Busacca. Because the elevation increases to the north of the river, he added, as the water table has dropped over recent decades, farmland buyers have increasingly prioritized reliable access to water.Busacca said the property purchased by Angelina sits within what today constitutes a growing nexus of processing plants, transportation infrastructure and low-cost hydropower and wind electricity that is facilitating a regional transition from irrigated wheat and field corn to higher-value crops such as carrots, onions and tree-fruit.
“Having lived in Washington State for 35 years, every time I drive through the area of Horse Haven Hills, I’m stunned by the continued intensification of development, going from lower-value crops to higher-value crops,” said Busacca. “They’re [Cottonwood / Angelina] making a very smart play for those being reliable money makers.” He added that, similarly to how access to water has helped determine land values for farmland in the region surrounding the Columbia River, he is also aware of growing interest in large properties drawing from southern Idaho’s Snake River, a tributary of the Columbia.
“I do think – based on my gut and the little bit of scuttlebutt I hear now and again – that there is an increased in Washington State and Idaho ag.”
Meanwhile, Bill Gates owns Cascade Investment LLC, which owns Los Arboles LLC, which changed its name to Cottonwood Ag Management LLC, which bought land in Echols County on the Alapahoochee River, a year after Bill Gates said he was going to fix agriculture in conjunction with Monsanto and Syngenta.
Matthew Herper wrote for Forbes 24 Jan 2012 Bill Gates’ Next Target: Revolutionize Farming,
“America’s richest man says that it is a terrible irony that most of the billion people, 15% of the world population, who live in extreme poverty and must worry about where they will get their next meal are suffering on farms. He says that the world needs to repeat the “Green Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, when new farming technologies, including new seed varieties of rice, wheat, and corn, increased the amount of food available and decreased its price.
It’s not clear to me the world really has a food shortage. It has a food distribution problem, which has a lot to do with massive amounts of U.S. midwest corn fields being grown for fuel rather than food, with Saudis and Chinese buying up farmland in Africa displacing the locals, and with Monsanto-style pesticided agriculture replacing lots of small farmers with mega-farms dependent on massive amounts of petrochemical pesticides.”
Cottonwood Ag, a privately-owned Agricultural Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of a highly-regarded, multi-billion dollar private investment company, is seeking an exceptional candidate for a Senior Asset Manager position, reporting to the Head of Agriculture. The company manages an agribusiness portfolio both domestically and internationally that encompasses approximately 250k acreas across multiple states with growing ..
That’s right, 250,000 acres across multiple states. Why?
IF I let my mind wander: will Gates control gov’ts with mandatory vaccintions, food supply
Anthony Fauci sets stage for mandatory— lucrative! — vaccine
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/8/anthony-fauci-sets-stage-mandatory-vaccine/this
Update 2015-01-11: People seem confused as to what Bill Gates is doing. However, since he announced in 2012 he was going to “fix” agriculture in conjunction with MONSANTO and SYNGENTA, and he’s buying up hundreds and thousands of contiguous acres at a time, it seems pretty clear he’s promoting corporate pesticided GMO agriculture.
Update 2015-01-13: More Gates purchases in more counties.
Add Echols County and Lowndes County, Georgia, including much of Lake Park, and Hamilton and Madison Counties, Florida, in addition to what Amber Vann wrote in the VDT and other papers today 22 October 2014, Bill Gates gobbling up Florida farmland
LIVE OAK, Fla. — The investment company that manages the wealth of the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has been acquiring gobs of farmland in north Florida the past two years, real estate records show.
Lakeland Sands Florida, a subsidiary of Cascade Investments LLC, which oversees the Gates fortune, recently bought more than 4,500 acres in Suwanee County near McAlpin, an unincorporated community just south of here.
Meanwhile, Bill Gates owns Cascade Investment LLC, which owns Los Arboles LLC, which changed its name to Cottonwood Ag Management LLC, which bought land in Echols County on the Alapahoochee River, a year after Bill Gates said he was going to fix agriculture in conjunction with Monsanto and Syngenta.
Cottonwood Ag Management LLC does not own any land in Lowndes, Hamilton, or Madison Counties. But Lakeland Sands does: see later blog posts.
Most of the southwest Echols County acreage in light blue (sales in the last couple of years) on the first map above by the Tax Assessor shows C/O COTTONWOOD AG Management. That’s the Alapahoochee River winding through from north to south on its way to join the Alapaha River near Jennings, FL, after which the Alapaha River joins the Suwannee River at the border with Suwannee County, Florida.
300x445 Parcel 007 016 Aerial, in Cottonwood Ag Management in SW Echols County, by John S. Quarterman, 22 October 2014 Let’s pick a parcel and zoom in, on Parcel 007 016. It’s a March 2013 sale, with current owner Coggins Produce Georgia LLC, but C/O Cottonwood Ag Management, 5501 Lakewood Drive, Kirkland, WA 98033.
The big blue parcels on either side of it are owned by Lakeland Sands LLC, and the one to the north, Parcel 007 017 also shows C/O Cottonwood Ag Management. Each of has several (100+ acre) large plots in SW Echols County. And several of them back up onto the west side of the Alapahoochee River, which puts them squarely in WWALS watersheds.
300x451 Parcel 007 016 Coggins Produce, in Cottonwood Ag Management in SW Echols County, by John S. Quarterman, 22 October 2014 Plus another 144 acres in Parcel 028 002 owned by Lakeland Sands on the Alapaha River just outside of Statenville.
Here’s how I followed the chain of LLC’s up to Bill Gates. A job posting: Senior Ag Asset Manager ~ BGI ~ Kirkland,Washington USA 03.25.2014 · Posted in Other / Misc Jobs,
Cottonwood Ag, a privately-owned Agricultural Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of a highly-regarded, multi-billion dollar private investment company, is seeking an exceptional candidate for a Senior Asset Manager position, reporting to the Head of Agriculture. The company manages an agribusiness portfolio both domestically and internationally that encompasses approximately 250k acres across multiple states with growing ..
That’s right, 250,000 acres across multiple states. Why?
Matthew Herper wrote for Forbes 24 Jan 2012 Bill Gates’ Next Target: Revolutionize Farming,
America’s richest man says that it is a terrible irony that most of the billion people, 15% of the world population, who live in extreme poverty and must worry about where they will get their next meal are suffering on farms. He says that the world needs to repeat the “Green Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, when new farming technologies, including new seed varieties of rice, wheat, and corn, increased the amount of food available and decreased its price.
It’s not clear to me the world really has a food shortage. It has a food distribution problem, which has a lot to do with massive amounts of U.S. midwest corn fields being grown for fuel rather than food, with Saudis and Chinese buying up farmland in Africa and displacing the locals, and with Monsanto-style pesticided agriculture replacing lots of small farmers with mega-farms dependent on massive amounts of petrochemical pesticides.
“The world faces a clear choice,” he writes. “If we invest relatively modest amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families. If we don’t, one in seven people will continue living needlessly on the edge of starvation.”
That looks like a false dichotomy when actual studies show more profit and just as much food is produced by fewer pestices and more crop rotation with animals for manure.
Back to the Forbes story:
That’s staggering considering that only $3 billion is spent on agricultural research on the seven most important crops, Gates says, including $1.5 billion from countries, $1.2 billion from private companies such as MONSANTO and SYNGENTA, and $300 million by an agency called the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
So Gates’ new project appears to be about promoting a few big agrochemical companies.
But what’s the connection of Cottonwood to Bill Gates? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation makes no mention of Cottonwood. Interestingly, google maps knows no such street as Lakewood Drive in Kirkland, WA. However, Kirkland is immediately west of Redmond, home base of Microsoft.
Ah, it’s because it’s really Lakeview Drive, according to Manta:
Cottonwood Ag Management LLC
932 N Wright Street # 152
Naperville, IL 60563 – View Map
Phone: (630) 219-3605
Web: www.cottonwoodag.com
Cottonwood Ag Management LLC
A privately held company in Naperville, IL….
More Details for Cottonwood Ag Management LLC
Categorized under Management Services. Our records show it was established in 2011 and incorporated in Illinois. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of 89000 and employs a staff of approximately 2.
The Illinois Secretary of State Corporation search finds:
Entity Name LOS ARBOLES MANAGEMENT, LLC File Number 02886812
Status ACTIVE On 08/26/2014
Entity Type LLC Type of LLC Foreign
File Date 10/28/2009 Jurisdiction WA
Agent Name NATIONAL REGISTERED AGENTS INC Agent Change Date 10/28/ 2009
Agent Street Address 200 WEST ADAMS STREET Principal Office 5501 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, KIRKLAND, WA 98033
Agent City CHICAGO Management Type MGR View
Agent Zip 60606 Duration PERPETUAL
Annual Report Filing Date 08/26/2014 For Year 2014
Assumed Name ACTIVE – COTTONWOOD AG MANAGEMENT
Series Name NOT AUTHORIZED TO ESTABLISH SERIES
Same address as Manta showed, and note LOS ARBOLES MANAGEMENT, LLC has an “Assumed Name” of COTTONWOOD AG MANAGEMENT.
Washington State Secretary of State Corporation Search finds:
COTTONWOOD AG MANAGEMENT, LLC
UBI Number 602816922
Category LLC
Active/Inactive Active
State of Incorporation WA
WA Filing Date 03/26/2008
Expiration Date 03/31/2015
Inactive Date
Duration Perpetual
Registered Agent Information
Agent Name NATIONAL REGISTERED AGENTS INC
Address 505 UNION AVE SE STE120
City OLYMPIA
State WA
ZIP 98501
That Los Arboles is the clue, followed in a comment by “Nick” on the story Shira Ovide wrote for WSJ Blogs 7 July 2011, Explaining Warren Buffett’s $1.5 Billion Gift to Bill Gates,
“They share an office with BGI (Bill Gates Investments—his “family office”/personal money mangers) and Los Arboles (his real estate and alternative asset manager, which is a subsidiary of BGI).”
The wikipedia article about Michael Larson claimes Los Arboles is a subsidiary of Cascade Investment, of which Michael Larson is the chief investment officer, and that Cascade (informally known as Bill Gates Investments, or BGI) is the main investment fund for Bill Gates and for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This wikipedia article about Cascade Investment says Gates is Chairman of Cascade Investment and Larson is Manager and CIO.
No, I’m not depending on Wikipedia. Those links are also attested in what Andy Serwer and Jeanne Lee wrote for Fortune Magazine 15 March 1999, One Family’s Finances: How Bill Gates Invests His Money Like a lot of people, he’s got stocks, bonds, and a money manager. But there are differences. For one thing, his personal portfolio is the size of a large mutual fund.
Here’s a Jamie Cobb on LinkedIn who worked first for Cascade and then for Los Arboles (August 2008 to April 2012).
So the chain of LLC ownership is clear, from Bill Gates down to Cottonwood Ag Management and Lakeland Sands LLC.
They posted this on LinkedIn at the end of August 2014,
HR Manager
Job description
Cottonwood Ag Management, a privately held Agricultural Asset Management Company, is searching for an HR Manager to join its ag mgt team to support the growth of the agricultural asset portfolio consisting of production farmland and production/processing facilities across the U.S. This position will oversee t he human resources programs and support the farming and processing operations in the Georgia market.Cottonwood Ag Management—Savannah, Georgia Area
[About this company
Cottonwood Ag Management is a national investment manager of agricultural real estate, direct farming and processing operations, overseeing nearly 220,000 acres of prime domestic farmland in major agricultural regions, including California, the Midwest, Southeast, and the Louisiana Delta region.]
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Bill Gates buys 25,000 acres of Arizona desert to build a smart city
By Jonathan Hilburg (@jhilburg) • November 13, 2017
Aerial view of Arcosanti (Courtesy U.S. Department of State)
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A Bill Gates-run investment firm is hopping on the thriving smart city trend and recently paid $80 million to acquire 25,000 acres of land in Arizona with plans to build a technologically-integrated community from the ground up.
Gates sees the city, tentatively named “Belmont,” as a chance to build information networking into the bedrock of any future development there.
“Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs,” said a representative from Belmont Partners, Gates’ Arizona-based real estate investment group.
Currently an undeveloped patch of desert 45 minutes west of Phoenix, the future of Belmont might hinge on old-fashioned infrastructure. While currently without water or electricity, the city’s growth would also be driven by the completion of I-11, an interstate highway connecting Phoenix to Las Vegas, Nevada. While the highway is tentatively set to complete construction in 2018, no timetables for Belmont have been publicly announced yet.
What has been laid out is how the land will be divided up. Out of the 25,000 acres, 470 will be used for public schools, while 3,800 acres will go towards retail, office and commercial space. The remaining land will hold 80,000 residences.
Arizona is no stranger to utopian city projects. The iconic Arcosanti, only an hour north of Phoenix, was founded in the 1970’s with the intent of merging the built environment with the natural world. Sadly, Arcosanti’s ambitious goal of demonstrating the efficiency of a smartly planned city never quite came to pass. While still a learning space and monument to designer Paolo Soleri, Arcosanti currently only houses between 50 to 150 people at any one time.
View of the skyline from the central park of Songdo, South Korea. (Courtesy Wikimedia)
“Smart” planned communities have a history of going awry, and Songdo, South Korea is a prime example. Originally built as an interconnected smart city meant to lure international investment, the majority of residents are now South Koreans who have been priced out of Seoul. Despite the underground trash system and personalized language learning programming for residents, Songdo also remains sparsely populated. Only time will tell if Gates’ city will be an inclusive, holistically planned community, or just a test ground for Microsoft products.
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