Local residents aren't happy about Bill Gates buying a potato farm in North Dakota.
"I've gotten a lot of feedback on this from all over the state, it's not even from that neighborhood," Goehring said. There are others that are just livid about this.
The sale of roughly 2,100 acres in the northeast corner of the state was first reported by AgWeek's Mikkel Pates.
Pates found public records that showed the connection between Gates and the buyer of the deal.
On Tuesday, the North Dakota Attorney General's Office sent a letter to the Red River Trust notifying Trustee Peter Headley of a Depression-era rule prohibiting companies, limited liability companies and trusts from farming and ranching in the state.
The office needs to confirm how your company uses the land and whether it meets any of the statutory exceptions.
The representatives of Gates didn't reply to the messages from Insider.
The potato farm costs about half of what Gates spent on the soil closer to his home.
Gates and his ex- wife Melinda own a lot of things.
The Gateses had 242,000 acres of farmland, 1,234 acres or recreational land, and 25,750 acres of land that was in transition from farmland to residential and commercial use.
It is not clear how the property is being divided after Bill and Melinda's divorce last year.
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