About a year ago, Eric O’Keefe came across information he found very curious: Somebody was buying large tracts of prime farmland in Washington State. As Editor and Founder of The Land Report, a publication that keeps close track of major land transactions, he wanted to know who the buyer was. Sales of 1,000 or more acres are considered significant and get special notice in his publication. This transaction was for 14,500 acres. Moreover, the land was in Eastern Washington State, an area which has some of the most expensive farmland in the country.