Foreign Agricultural Land Investment Disclosure (Land Use)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-05-07 — Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act: HR8700 (Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act) introduced: would impose new restrictions on acquisition or control of U.S. farmland and sensitive sites by foreign adversaries, layering onto existing AFIDA disclosure and CFIUS/FARM Act agricultural-review frameworks. (novelty: 2)
2025-03-28 — FARMLAND Act of 2025: 2025 — FARMLAND Act of 2025 introduced: would expand CFIUS review to foreign land transactions over $5M or 320 acres involving agriculture or critical materials, add USDA Secretary and FDA Commissioner to CFIUS, strengthen AFIDA enforcement, bar foreign landowners from Farm Service Agency programs, and require a joint USDA–DHS database of foreign-owned agricultural land. (novelty: 3)
2025-03-12 — SOIL Act of 2025: SOIL Act of 2025 (S1012) introduced: would route agricultural-land investments by persons from nonmarket or national-security-risk countries through CFIUS review, bar federal agricultural assistance to such holdings, and extend AFIDA disclosure to leases longer than five years with annual public reporting focused on China and Russia. (novelty: 3)