Farmer Bill and the Great Reset While many media outlets claim this makes Gates the biggest farmland owner in the U.S., 1 that may be an exaggeration, seeing how there are at least 50 other families that own far greater landmasses, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. 2 According to a USA Today investigation 3 published in November 2019, Bezos owns a respectable 420,000 acres, most of it located in Texas. Is Bill Gates Too Powerful? Either way, Gates certainly owns a sizeable chunk of U.S. farmland, which places him, yet again, in a position to have a significant impact on the direction of American agriculture and food production. In the video above, Russell Brand reviews some of these controversies.