The Trump administration has rolled out the National Farm Security Action Plan, a multi-agency effort that will include a ban on the purchase of US farmland by Chinese nationals.
The new initiative encompasses the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Homeland Security and Justice. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins viewed the Chinese ownership of US farmland as a security threat.
“Too much American land is owned by nationals of adversarial countries, and more than 265,000 acres in the United States are owned by Chinese nationals, much of which is located near critical US military bases,” said Rollins in a Monday press conference.
The New York Post conducted a review based on Rollins’ statement and found at least 19 of the bases were close enough to fall under tracking surveillance from Chinese-owned farm properties. It is unclear whether the new plan will require the sale or seizure of farmland now owned by Chinese nationals, with the plan only stating the “USDA will ensure transparency of foreign US agricultural land ownership and pursue robust and overdue updates to data collection, reporting, and analysis.”
The new plan will also seek to ensure agricultural and economic prosperity while identifying supply chain gaps and in the supply chain while promoting agriculture research and safeguarding plant and animal health.
We have stupidly allowed too much foreign investment in our country simply chasing better payments in the place of our best interests.
Largest foreign country land owner in USA is Britain. So this must be well thought through. At least i hope so. All you Never Trumpers out there. We are all in this together. This is another 80-20 issue.
how about stopping foreign nationals from buying up cities like New York and Miami Beach?
how about we stop foreign buyers of resort areas like Hawaii?
Can we stop Bill Gates from buying up more large tracts of farmland too, please? It can be called “The No Bill Farmland Bill” 🙂
i SAY SINCE NA AMERICANS CAN BUY ANY REAL ESTATE IN CHINA .THAT WE PURCHASE ALL THE FARMLAND CHINA OR CHINESE CORPORATIONS OWN BE BOUGHT BY OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THS SAME PRICE CHINA AND THEIR CORPORATIONS. IF THEY REFUSE TO SELL BACK AT THE SAME PRICE I SAY WE CONFISCATE ALL LANDS FOR FREE.,THEY ARE OUR ENEMY NOT OUR ALLIES. WE TRAT THEM AS THEY TREAT US. PLUS THEY HAD SPYS IN OUR COUNTRY WITH A DEADLY MAN MADE FUNGUS TO POISON OURCROPS AND OUT CITIZENS. PUT AN END TO THIS BULLSHIT ENEMY WE WILL BE FIGHTING THEM IN A WAR SOON WE NEED ALL OUR RESOURCES HER!!!
My Grandparents were immigrants from Germany. They could not own land in the USA unless they were citizens. Classes to become a citizen were held at a country school. I have a newspaper clipping of several men, one of which was my grandfather in a rural school studying to become citizens. My Grandparents had a large family. My granddad was able to buy a farm. They all worked in the fields as youngsters. Eventually they all owned farms of their own and their children worked in the fields. My parents taught us to work and earn our way as adults.
Great Idea. But who ever is running the country behind the scenes will have to decide if it works for Jerusalem.
This will end up like one of those studies that is used to bore the public and then it goes no where. But our tax dollars will spend money on “the Study”