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.
Nobody’s buying up Midwest farmland to grow lettuce. You don’t see lettuce fields in Nebraska
'watch the water" is still a concern, to me...how many aquifers, rivers, streams and other natural waters could be dammed up and/or water made to be unusable to sustain life, regardless of actually growing crops, growing our meat animals and poultry, and human water supplies...pollute the skies for raining down on top surfaces of all our lakes, stock tanks, etc. this "one-two punch" could be devastating...