evidence: Potatoes for McDonald’s fries are grown on Bill Gates’ farmland in fields so big you can see them from space [...] Potatoes for McDonald’s french fries. Carrots for the world’s largest producer. Onions at the grocery store. These are just a few of the numerous crops growing across America on the veritable agricultural empire belonging to Bill and Melinda Gates, who, with more than 269,000 acres to their name, are the biggest owners of farmland in the country. They’ve got so much of it, you can see one of their Washington farms from space.