SOIL Act of 2025
Current understanding
The SOIL Act of 2025 would extend CFIUS jurisdiction to cover agricultural-land investments by persons from nonmarket or national-security-risk countries, bar federal agricultural assistance for such holdings, and expand USDA foreign landholding disclosure under AFIDA to include leases longer than five years with annual public reporting emphasizing China and Russia. For farmers, the bill could constrain lease and sale options with certain foreign buyers while preserving federal program eligibility for domestic and allied-country holdings; effects on consumers and food prices are indirect and depend on how much foreign investment is deterred. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2026-02-10 — Soil CARE Act of 2026: cross-connection with regenerative-agriculture-policy: Both bills target soil health as a policy lever — SOIL Act (2025) and Soil CARE Act (2026) advance complementary statutory infrastructure for soil health management, with the latter focusing specifically on training NRCS staff and technical service providers. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: 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)