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Who has the largest farm in America?

Largest cranberry grower in the world is A.D. Makepeace in Mass. Over 1,750 acres of cranberry bog over 5 towns. Largest producer of berries for Ocean Spray. Not a million acres, but still a pretty neat fact.
 
Depends on the kinda farm you are talking about. 5000 acres of hay is way more work than 5000 acres of grain. So an acre isn't the best measuring tool unless you are comparing apples to apples.
 
Ted Turner is the largest individual land owner in the USA. A guy named Maurice Wilde had the largest farm in IL and Mo at one time. This was a few years ago.
 
Maybe not the biggest; don't know if they still exist, but XIT ranch used to be a biggun........stood for 10 (counties) in Texas. Nowadays, could be Ted Turner is the largest land owner.
 
A rancher in Texas was telling his old high school friend from Oklahoma about his ranch. He told him he could get in his truck at his house and drive west all afternoon and not get to the boundry of his ranch. His old buddy from Oklahoma said "yep, I used to have a truck like that".
 
When I was driving truck, we used to go to Gallo winery a lot. Heard when I was there one time, third Gallo brother was milking 15,000 cows somewhere in central CA. This was 20+ years ago.
 
Kinda of a silly twist on this question. Are you talking acres connected or just land owned by X Farms? Here in NE there are several farmers who farm 10,000 acres+ but are scattered out in different areas. Many of the sandhill ranches are more or less connected, but most have more than one location.
 
Amana farms may be the largest land owner in Iowa.

26,000 acres of crop, pasture and forest land.

Gary
 
A farmer family near where I grew up in west central Saskatchewan owned an entire township, that's 36 square miles or about 23,000 acres. Most of it was cultivated.
 
Tenneco (bought out Case, etc many years ago) was supposed to-according to their annual report to stockholders-have land accumulation equivalent to the state of ? Actually I'm in the state of confusion as old age has me forgetful!
 
There are quite a few farms in N.D. that are one owner farms that are a 100 quarters or more. That's 16,000 acres. Corporate companies cannot own land in N.D. In fact if a lending institution repossess any farm land they have to sell within three years. You can incororate family farms here but one of the members has to actively be active on the farm(whatever that means). A lot of farmers farm a lot more than that but most of it is rental land.
 
Several ranches within 50 miles of me have over 30,000 acres. the Trinchera ranch SE Co has 150,000+
Not all in one area,but in shear size one needs to look at the Deseret Land and Cattle Co ie the LDS church, they are one of the nations largest cow-calf outfits with ranches in several states.
 
Interesting reading on the King Ranch on their official website (its the first thing on the list if you google "King Ranch"). I always just assumed King Ranch was a 40 mile an hour ranch- where cow has to graze at 40 MPH just to get enough grass to keep from starving to death- and logically would be in the desert of west Texas. Not the case- its south of Corpus Christi (a lot of it fronts the Gulf of Mexico)- and they crop farm 60,000 acres in Texas (mostly cotton, milo and sod), plus 20,000 acres in Florida (largest producer of orange juice in the US). Plus still do ranching. And hunting trips. And a museum. And, I'd be willing to bet, a gift shop. Oh, and tens of thousands of acres in two ranches in Australia.

Lets just give 'em General Motors- they'd probably have it hummin' in a year or so.
 
You forgot about the hundreds of oil wells on their land as well....not to mention the Santa Getrudis cattle and the world's finest cutting horses!!
 
That could be my place some days, walked back to the house just last week because the place was so big the truck couldn't get from one end to the other.

Dave
 
When I was at Texas A&I, now Texas A&M at Kingsville, we took field trips on the King Ranch. I thought it was about 900000 acres, mostly brush country, a lot of which has been root plowed and seeded with grass. It is not all in one unit, but I think in one or two counties. It is "near" Corpus Christi, maybe 40 miles or so away, but it is headquarted in Kleberg County, county seat is Kingsville, Texas.
 
back in the late 80's I worked at a JD dealership & we sold a lot of repair parts to the King Ranch in TX...had a picture of 86 of their 4 row cotton pickers in the same field...foreman that gave me the pic. said that they had 20 or so in the shop on some days......boss made us jump when they called for parts !!..Kent
 
As far as cattle go, there is a feedlot here in Nebraska that has an average of 175,000 head in 2 lots split 150,000 and 25,000. Absolute max cap. is near 200,000 but they dont run quite that many head. The silage pile and wet corn pile are so big the push dozers look like tonka toys.
 
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