‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned

They are also words that can’t be be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. “Texas is kind of a free-for-all, so they don’t have a limit on how much land can be owned,” say’s Ohio Farm Bureau’s Ty Higgins, “You look at Iowa and they restrict it — no land in Iowa is owned by a foreign entity.” Huffman says she’s worried about the effects of foreign land ownership on her rural community — which she describes as similar to Walmart pushing local businesses out of the market.

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