Yes. 270,000 acres is 421 sq miles.
I can only guess that he is strategically buying because he expect adjacent land to become available.
He’s the largest landowner in the US.
My guess is that, with his agenda of artificial meat, he wants to let the land go fallow, price out younger farmers, stop raising beef on that property, force the public into synthetic beef, and force growing of certain GMO crops, of which he’s a shareholder in certain companies.
Interesting article: