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Farmland Ownership In the U.S., And How It Relates To Food Security

By Lyle Muller, with Jeff Stein, Johnathan Hettinger and Brant Houston | July 24, 2017
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Iowa corn field, taken in southeast Iowa, near Muscatine, in July 2017 file photo.

One important way to ensure food security in the United States is to keep farmland ownership from going into foreign hands. That doesn’t always happen.

We dig into why in this IowaWatch Connnection radio report/podcast with the help of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, which produced a comprehensive report on foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, and how Iowa law prohibits foreign farmland ownership.

For more on the IowaWatch Connection, go to this link.

 

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