US Acts on Foreign Ownership of Farmland Amid China Tension (3)

The Trump administration is tightening its grip on foreign ownership of farmland amid continuing concerns over Chinese investment in America’s heartland.

The US Department of Agriculture will work with state lawmakers to end farmland purchases “by nationals for countries of concern or other foreign adversaries,” according to a press event Tuesday. The USDA is also partnering with the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, to review foreign purchases involving the farming industry.

US farms are “under threat from criminals, from political adversaries and from hostile regimes that understand our way of life as a ...