USDA’s Pushing back on FOREIGN OWNership of U.S. FARMLAND
Last month, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the administration is working with states to ban China and other hostile nations from buying our farmland. They’re also looking at ways to claw back land already in foreign hands.
Some say it’s only 0.02% of America’s farmland — just a “drop in the bucket.” But here’s the thing: when you own the dirt, you own the water, the crops, and eventually the decisions about what gets grown and who gets it. That’s not just business — that’s national security.
Arizona farmers are already wrestling with scarce water, rising costs, and urban sprawl. The last thing we need is for our best ground to wind up controlled by people who’ve never walked it, never worked it, and never planned to pass it on to their kids.
Keeping farmland local means keeping it productive — not just profitable. It means decisions are made by people who know the soil, care about the community, and live with the consequences of what’s planted there.
Our land is our livelihood. Let’s make sure it stays that way.
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