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  1. Mar 25, 2024 · Microsoft Co-Founder and billionaire Bill Gates owns a farm that produces potatoes used in McDonald's french fries. Rating: True. About this rating.

  2. Sep 28, 2023 · None of the potatoes from the farm owned by Bill Gates are GM. 1 of 2 claims. Posts on Facebook falsely claim all McDonald’s French fries come from Bill Gates and a “genetically modified potato farm”.

  3. Jun 10, 2021 · Bill Gates is the largest private farmland owner in the US — and according to a new report from NBC, potatoes that make McDonald's fries grow in his fields.

    • Mary Hanbury
  4. Apr 4, 2024 · Bill Gates owns a farm in Washington state that produces potatoes for McDonald's French fries, a fact confirmed by Snopes and acknowledged on McDonald's website.

  5. The Microsoft co-founder acquired the farm when he purchased farmland in Washington, near the Oregon border, through holding companies in 2018, according to Snopes. Continue reading. But while...

  6. 100 Circle Farms grows potatoes in circles so big they’re visible from space. Then our trusted processor, Lamb Weston, cuts them into fries at 70 miles per hour. “We can dig anywhere from a thousand to twenty-four hundred tons of potatoes per day…and the majority of these will go into McDonald’s Fries ”.

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  8. Sep 28, 2023 · Gates was involved in the $13.5 million purchase of 2,100 acres of potato farms in North Dakota in 2022, AgWeek reported. Red River Trust, an entity associated with Gates, bought the acreage located in the northern Red River Valley, from the three Campbell brothers.

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