Farmland

There are several considerations farmers need to take into account when they are looking to expand their land assets.   “There are some instances where, hey, it's right next door. It makes sense," Matt Gunderson is with Farmers National Company noted.  "It's a ...

A recent study by the University of Illinois determined farmland continues to disappear across the U.S.  The study from Farmdoc said land in farms declined in each region of the country and was led by pastureland.  The decline in pastureland was likely facilitated by a growth in livestock confinement operations.  Planted cropland ...

House Republicans may try to attach several bills to a must-pass funding measure needed by month’s end to avert a government shutdown.  Among those is a ban on foreign adversaries owning U.S. farmland.  The ban on China and other foreign adversaries owning U.S. farmland, especially n...

It is becoming a growing security issue, says Newhouse and other GOP leaders.

Congressman Dan Newhouse introduced legislation to prevent foreign adversaries from exploiting U.S. land near national security sites by giving the CFIUS jurisdiction over any potential land purchases by foreign adversaries.

As you travel across the Pacific Northwest, you will experience many types of landscapes. High deserts, forests, mountains, and coastline. And while you drive these diverse terrains you see it, a field tornado, the tracks of a Tasmanian devil, a field demon: a dust devil.

USDA’s annual Farms and Land in Farms Report shows the country’s largest farms with sales of $1 million or more operate nearly 26% of all American farmlands.  The agency also says there were 2.003 million farms in the nation during 2022, a drop of 0.5 percentage points f...

A former U.S. national security advisor recently told the House select panel investigating the Chinese Communist Party that the CCP may be infiltrating Midwest U.S. farm interests.  And, it didn’t start with a Chinese spy balloon.  H.R. McMaster...

Earlier this month, central Washington’s Dan Newhouse led his House colleagues in the introduction of the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act.  The legislation would prohibit the purchase of public or private agricultural land in the United States by foreign nationals associated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China.  The Chair of the Western ...

On Thursday, Representative Dan Newhouse and his House colleagues introduced the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act.  Supporter say the legislation would prohibit the purchase of public or private agricultural land in the United States by foreign nationals associated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China.   "The Ch...