The Trump administration is suggesting that Chinese owners are snapping up land near the Army's Yuma Proving Ground. But the ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unveiled a seven-point national security plan ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the nation’s food supply was a national security issue on par with energy and water ...

In what it calls a comprehensive action plan for agriculture security, USDA unveiled seven critical areas the Trump ...

The USDA’s new plan restricts foreign land ownership—especially targeting China—to protect U.S. agriculture and national ...

Today, agriculture, food, and related trades employ more than one in 10 American workers and contribute over $1.5 trillion to our annual Gross Domestic Product. In Nebraska, one in four ...

The 2022 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics discusses building an inclusive U.S. economy and reforming capitalism to address inequality. The full agenda is available here. This ...

The issue of foreign ownership of agricultural land received a lot of attention in 2023 – both at the federal as well as at the state level in numerous states. It’s not a new issue.

In the 1970s, the issue of foreign investment in and ownership of agricultural land received additional attention because of several large purchases by foreigners and the suspicion that the build ...

USDA staff fail to “sufficiently verify” the accuracy of foreign land ownership data and are slow to share information on those landholdings with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the ...

Since 2010, reported foreign-held agricultural land in the U.S. has grown by 21 million acres — an 85% increase — averaging an annual gain of 1.62 million acres.