Foreign Agricultural Land Ownership – National Security
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-farmland-sensitive-sites-foreign-adversaries-act: HR8700 would tighten the underlying national-security regime for foreign agricultural land ownership addressed by the existing AFIDA-based reporting framework. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-28 — FARMLAND Act of 2025: cross-connection with farmland-act-2025: FARMLAND Act would create the joint USDA–DHS database of foreign-owned agricultural land central to this policy area. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: cross-connection with cfius-agricultural-land-national-security-review: SOIL Act links CFIUS agricultural-land review to AFIDA-style USDA foreign landholding disclosure, extending reporting to long-term leases and adding public country-focused reporting. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-06 — PASS Act: cross-connection with pass-act: The PASS Act would operationalize the foreign-agricultural-land national-security framework by codifying adversary-country prohibitions on land near sensitive military sites. (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: The bill directly amends AFIDA reporting scope (adding security interests and leases) and layers outright purchase/lease prohibitions on top of the existing foreign agricultural land national security regime. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-02-05 — Critical Mineral Dominance Act: cross-connection with critical-mineral-supply-chain-security: Both address national-security-driven federal land use policy — foreign ag land ownership review parallels the Critical Mineral Dominance Act’s push to prioritize domestic mineral production on federal lands to reduce foreign dependence. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-01-22 — FARM Act: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: Both extend national-security oversight to the agricultural sector — FARM Act via CFIUS review of business investments, and the foreign agricultural land regime via land-ownership reporting/restrictions. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-02-28 — FARM Act: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: Both address national-security concerns over foreign control of U.S. agricultural assets; the FARM Act extends CFIUS jurisdiction to agricultural business investments, complementing the reporting/restriction regime for foreign agricultural land ownership. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-05-07 — Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (DFARS Case 2021-D011): cross-connection with dfars-foci-mitigation: Both address federal responses to foreign ownership/control risks in security-sensitive contexts (defense contracting vs. agricultural land). (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-25 — Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978: USDA proposed rule (2025) would modernize AFIDA implementation by mandating electronic disclosure submission, creating a public internet database of foreign holdings, expanding reporting scope, and strengthening enforcement to better track national-security risks from foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land. (novelty: 3)