CFIUS Agricultural Land National Security Review
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-10-14 — PASS Act of 2025: cross-connection with pass-act: Both require CFIUS review of foreign agricultural land/investment transactions as a national-security screening mechanism. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-28 — FARMLAND Act of 2025: cross-connection with farmland-act-2025: FARMLAND Act operationalizes CFIUS review of agricultural land deals with specific dollar/acreage triggers and a new joint USDA–DHS database. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: SOIL Act of 2025 (S1012) introduced: mandates CFIUS review of agricultural-land acquisitions by persons from nonmarket or national-security-risk countries, bars federal agricultural assistance for such holdings, and expands USDA AFIDA disclosure to leases longer than five years with annual public reporting highlighting China and Russia. (novelty: 3)