Between 2009 and 2019, the amount of U.S. agricultural land owned by foreigners doubled. In 2021, that number amounted to over 40 million acres of private U.S. farmland owned by either a foreign individual or foreign subsidiary.
Despite that lengthy list of legislative proposals to combat foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, there seems to be less interest in coming up with ways to reduce our reliance on imports of foreign agricultural commodities and products. Displacing American farmland owners is just as destructive as displacing American agricultural producers on grocery store shelves and in consumer households.
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