FARM Act — USDA on CFIUS & Agricultural Critical Infrastructure
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-05-07 — Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act: cross-connection with protecting-us-farmland-sensitive-sites-foreign-adversaries-act: HR8700’s acquisition restrictions complement the FARM Act’s CFIUS-based national-security review of foreign agricultural investments. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-10-14 — PASS Act of 2025: PASS Act of 2025 introduced with overlapping CFIUS provisions — adding the Secretary of Agriculture to CFIUS and requiring review of certain foreign agricultural investments — while going further than the FARM Act by imposing outright bans on CN/RU/IR/KP persons and entities acquiring U.S. ag land or companies (with presidential waiver authority). (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: cross-connection with soil-act-2025: Both bills route foreign agricultural-land or agribusiness investments through CFIUS; SOIL Act focuses on nonmarket/security-risk-country landholdings while FARM Act adds USDA to CFIUS and classifies ag systems as critical infrastructure. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-06 — PASS Act: cross-connection with pass-act-foreign-ag-land-cfius: Both bills add the Agriculture Secretary to CFIUS for ag-related transactions; PASS Act pairs that with adversary-country prohibitions on ag land near sensitive sites, while FARM Act frames ag systems as critical infrastructure. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-02-18 — Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2025: cross-connection with protecting-americas-agricultural-land-foreign-harm-act: Both bills target foreign (particularly adversary-nation) involvement in U.S. agriculture — this bill uses outright purchase/lease and USDA program bars, while the FARM Act layers CFIUS national-security review onto agricultural investments. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-01-22 — FARM Act: S.179 (119th Congress) introduced and referred to Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (2025-01-22); would add the Secretary of Agriculture to CFIUS, mandate CFIUS review of foreign-control investments in U.S. agricultural businesses, and classify agricultural systems and supply chains as critical infrastructure and critical technologies. (novelty: 3)