Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to a P.O. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment company.
The Mormon Church now owns about 370,000 total acres of zoned agricultural land in Nebraska. That's about the size of Douglas and Sarpy counties combined.