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USDA Launches National Farm Security Plan to Block Adversarial Farmland Purchases

It frames U.S. agriculture as a security imperative by blocking adversarial farmland purchases and tightening oversight of supply chains, research and nutrition programs under an America First agenda.

Overview

  • USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled the seven-pillar National Farm Security Action Plan on July 8 to elevate agriculture as a national security priority.
  • The plan bars Chinese and other adversarial nationals from buying U.S. farmland and gives the agriculture secretary a seat on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review and reverse prior acquisitions.
  • It mandates regular assessments of agricultural supply chains to reduce dependence on foreign inputs and institutes heightened biosecurity measures to counter agroterrorism and biological threats.
  • USDA nutrition programs will face stricter enforcement to root out SNAP fraud by transnational criminal networks, and the department will tighten security for U.S.-funded agricultural research to guard against foreign intellectual-property theft.
  • The administration will continue mass deportations of undocumented farmworkers with no amnesty and promote automation to move toward a 100% American workforce under its America First agenda.