Foreign investors from several of America’s global adversaries currently own millions of acres of U.S. agricultural land, a number expected to rise.
In an effort to deter the expected projection from becoming reality, elected officials from across the country have been searching for solutions and calling attention to the issue.
Leading the fight against future agricultural expansion from foreign entities are Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt. Both legislators, on Monday, took part in introducing the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 which would permanently add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and provide the Secretary authority to flag all U.S. farmland acquisitions by foreign adversaries including China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran.