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After two decades of paying as little as $200 an acre for farms across the plains of Kansas and Colorado, he now wants to rent all his farmland back to local farmers<\/a>. If all goes as planned he will stop farming on roughly 130,000 acres in eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and let other farmers grow grain to store in his Weskan Grain elevator<\/a> at Sheridan Lake near the Kansas border. \u201cBecause I can see that the farmer is affected by me making money off the land,\u201d he says, noting how the price of acres has appreciated exponentially since he first began buying farms \u201cand that\u2019s money farmers could have made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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BREAKING: 231 service members and veterans have signed a letter to inform military leaders that there is a group of troops and vets pledging to the American public that they will do everything lawfully within their power to stop the willful destruction of our military by its own\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/ijm7hmu6eB<\/a><\/p>\n

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) January 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n