 It's another Ag News update. If you were to invest $7 billion, what would you like to get back in return? More after this. Here's farmer and landowner John Proulx. We purchased the land about three years ago, and there was an old farmstead on there with trees. We were going to clear the land so we could farm through it. We thought we knew where the pipe was, so we didn't call to get it located. The work on our property led to the damage of a light crude pipeline.