Inside The Bipartisan Push To Block China From Buying American Farmland

Chinese purchasers have been buying up American farmland at an alarming rate. In 1980, Chinese buyers owned 2,000 acres of American farmland, according to the Department of Agriculture. Now, they own 300,000 acres. “The consolidation of our farmland, the foreign adversarial ownership of farmland, especially from China and other places has really been creeping up ...