Bill Gates isn’t even close to America’s largest private landowner. It’s ‘Silent Stan’ Kroenke, Walmart husband and LA Rams owner
- Posted on January 16, 2026
- By Fortune
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Bill Gates isn’t even close to America’s largest private landowner. It’s ‘Silent Stan’ Kroenke, Walmart husband and LA Rams owner

Kroenke’s purchase of nearly 1 million acres of ranchless marks a growing trend of the ultrawealthy snapping up farmland as an alternative asset.