foreign ownership

Foreign adversaries are blocked from buying American farmland under an amendment added to the House-passed Farm Bill. The amendment, offered by Florida Republican Greg Steube, passed along a voice vote.

Farmers and landowners might find reassurance in a new USDA initiative aimed at monitoring foreign interests in agriculture. It's a big step for national security.

The Organization for Competitive Markets as well as the Competitive Markets Action have launched a $100,000 ad campaign to fight the imminent reintroduction of the Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression Act.  The groups say this legislation threatens states’ rights and family farms by eliminating state agricultural laws.  The campaign ...

The latest report on foreign ownership of U.S. ag land shows that 45.85 million acres of U.S. farmland were held by foreign investors in 2023.  That represents 3.61% of total privately held agricultural land in the U.S.  This marks a 1.58-million-acre (3....

Senate Ag Committee members Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Fetterman (D-PA), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) are asking the USDA to improve its process for foreign-owned farmland disclosures.  The letter follows alleged inaccuracies posted online by the Farm Service Agency under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.   “...

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.

First, it was a competition issue, but recently, foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, especially by China, has become a U.S. national security issue.  With that Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana, the U.S. Air Force is now warning, proposed Chinese land buys in North Dakota are too close to a military drone testing facility.  Io...

The California legislature recently passed a bill outlawing land sales to foreign countries to help protect the nation’s food supply.   “Food can, and is, being used as a weapon like we’re seeing in Ukraine,” said the bill’s author, state Senator Melissa Hurtado. “Recent reports have shown that a nati...

Farm state Senators have joined House colleagues in trying to crack down on foreign ownership of U.S. farmland.  In June, House appropriators included a ban on Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran owning U.S. farmland in their annual USDA spending bill.  Cu...