This is a National Science Foundation newsletter from 2009, it says Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the NSF $50 Million. This is old news but $50 million goes a long way.
National Science Foundation Announces Partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Foster Sustainable Agricultural Solutions
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114493&org=NSF
13 years later what does the National Science Foundation do?
Gives $500,000 to University of California Riverside scientist to see whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/09/16/grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines
Now, does this explain why Bill Gates has been buying up all the farm land?
Fair warning, better start growing your own food or you will become a lab rat in the next Bill Gates research experiment.
Actually the point about Bill Gates buying up farmland is that he should be in jail, not buying up food industries to possibly poison the nation with.
Well, he could also influence specific regions with his produce using this potential technology.
It might not be "huge" in the scheme of the entire country, but what if, say... A major provider's lettuce suddenly has, oh I don't know, e.coli contamination.
Here comes Gates' mRNA lettuce to temporarily asssist in the void dahdahdun, now mixed in with other products sourced from out of state is his mRNA vaccine.
We already know that shedding occurs to at least some degree.
So even a narrow yet rising amount of farmland could have far reaching and profound effects if technology like this came to fruition.
We've already seen the FDA destroying portions of products.. who's to say they can't make the FDA enforce a recall on chosen crops exhibiting successful modification to create this opportunity?
This is an excellent point.
I remember back, several years ago - a couple of decades maybe - when GMO crops really burst onto the ag scene, big companies like Monsanto started SUING smaller farmers if their nonGMO crops were incidentally cross-polinated with the altered crops (think birds, bees and other insects, wind, etc.). And the big companies won! That's the power of their lobbyists in action.
So rather than the Monsanto et al being punished for contaminating other farmers' crops, they got to stick it to the little guy for 'stealing their intellectual property'. No joke.
Swinging back around to your point, even if Bill Gates only owns a small percentage of the whole in terms of productive acreage, if he can figure out how to plant mRNA crops that transmit the same capabilities to other farmers' fields through pollination, then it's all over!
This is a very big deal. And after all the dishonesty we've seen with the vaccines, I definitely would not put it past them to try this.