Foreign Agricultural Land Ownership – National Security
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-02-18 — Protecting America’s Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2025: cross-connection with protecting-americas-agricultural-land-foreign-harm-act: Bill operationalizes national-security concerns about foreign agricultural land ownership by imposing covered-country purchase/lease bans and USDA program bars. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-01-22 — FARM Act: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: Both address national-security concerns over foreign involvement in U.S. agriculture; FARM Act adds prospective CFIUS review authority for agricultural business acquisitions, complementing land-ownership national security frameworks. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-02-28 — FARM Act: cross-connection with farm-act-cfius-agriculture: Both frame foreign involvement in U.S. agriculture as a national-security issue; the FARM Act operationalizes that framing by adding USDA to CFIUS and classifying agricultural systems as critical infrastructure. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-01-14 — Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act: HR7053 (Preemption of Real Property Discrimination Act), introduced, would preempt state laws restricting real property purchases based on citizenship — directly conflicting with state-level foreign ownership bans often justified on national security grounds near military installations. (novelty: 3)