Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser

What are the Mormons up to? Or is Nebraska such a backwater that a few land purchases by the Mormons make a splash?

"... Farmland Reserve Inc., a nonprofit owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon church, has been quietly buying up ranch land in Nebraska’s Sandhills for the past three decades.

The Garden County shopping spree, coupled with more buys in four neighboring counties, made the church Nebraska’s top single buyer of land in the past five years. 

The church bought a whopping 57,500 acres – double the amount of the second largest buyer– between 2018 and 2022, according to a Flatwater Free Press analysis of data gathered by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications data journalism class. ..."

Who’s Buying Nebraska? After shopping spree, Mormon church is top land purchaser - Flatwater Free Press In the past five years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought twice as much Nebraska land as the second biggest buyer. If they keep it up, they’ll soon own more than anyone.

Credits: Salt Lake Tribune Mormon Land