The ten largest landowners in America.
Stan sits on top with 2.7 million acres. But the board tells a second story: most of the giants are timber and mineral empires. Only a few keep cattle — and those are the only ones we can help. Here's the honest ledger of what early detection saves the people with a herd, and a blank where there's nothing to listen to.
Of the ten largest landowners in America, only 3 keep a herd we could listen to — the rest are timber and mineral empires. For the ones who do, the conservative floor comes to $507k a year in cattle that respiratory disease would otherwise take. We only counted what we could source.
For each owner with a herd: head × 2% adult annual death loss × 28% that's respiratory disease × 27% caught early, then × $2,600 per head. It is a conservative floor — death loss only, no treatment cost or lost weight. Bison and herd-not-public rows are flagged as such on the board. Nothing is counted that we couldn't source.
- 01The Land Report · 2026-01 — Stan Kroenke — #1 on the Land Report 100
- 02Robb Report · 2026 — The Largest Landowners in the United States (cites Land Report 100)⚠ Secondary aggregator of the Land Report 100; used for the #5–#10 names.
- 03Turner Enterprises — ~45,000 bison — the largest private bison herd in the world⚠ Herd is bison, not cattle; our cattle-calibrated model is applied illustratively.
- 04Encyclopædia Britannica — King Ranch — ~35,000 head of cattle
- 05USDA APHIS NAHMS · 2015 — Adult cattle annual death rate ~2%
- 06USDA NASS · 2011 — Cattle Death Loss — 4.3% of inventory; respiratory disease 28% of non-predator loss⚠ USDA's detailed Cattle Death Loss report has not been reissued since 2011; we do not imply newer national cause-tables exist.
- 07Translational Animal Science (Oxford) · 2025 — Randomized feedlot trial: automated early BRD detection cut untreated deaths ~75% and total fallouts ~27%, treating ~3.7 days earlier⚠ Several authors are employed by Merck Animal Health, which makes the tested device. We cite the statistically-significant mortality/fallout figures, not the marginal per-head economic figure (P=0.06).
- 08CattleFax (via NCBA) · 2026-02 — 2026 full-year feeder average forecast ~$335/cwt (most conservative benchmark)
Stan's the one with the most to gain. We'd start with him.
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