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As Foreign Investment In U.S. Farmland Grows, Efforts To Ban And Limit The Increase Mount

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | June 7, 2019

Foreign investors acquired at least 1.6 million acres of agricultural land in the United States in 2016, the largest increase in more than a decade, a Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting of the latest available federal data shows.

Podcast

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

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.