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May 16, 2017

U.S. farm, ranch land being sold for wind power, Big Ag, vacation retreats

  • The new owner of a 440-acre Oregon cattle ranch said she called her husband on their yacht to say: “Honey, I just bought the most amazing birthday gift for you.”
    • By ERIC MORTENSON
    Capital Press

    SALEM, Ore. — Diane Daggett remembers the conversation with the woman who had just purchased the Daggett family's 440-acre cattle ranch in Northeast Oregon's Wallowa County, land that had been in the family for four generations.

    The buyer said she had called her husband, who was aboard their yacht in the Cayman Islands, to share the news. “Honey,” the woman said she'd told him, “I just bought the most amazing birthday gift for you.”


     
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