By William Miller, for Eurasia Business News, July 8, 2025. Article no. 1604

The Trump administration has announced a comprehensive initiative called the National Farm Security Action Plan aimed at banning Chinese nationals from purchasing U.S. farmland, particularly near military bases, due to national security concerns. This plan is a multi-agency effort involving the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security.

“The farm’s produce is not just a commodity, it is a way of life that underpins America itself. And that’s exactly why it is under threat from criminals, from political adversaries, and from hostile regimes that understand our way of life as a profound and existential threat to themselves,” USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a press event in Washington, D.C.

Key points of the plan include:

  • Prohibiting Chinese purchases of U.S. farmland to prevent potential espionage or influence over critical food supplies, especially near strategic military installations.
  • Collaborating with state lawmakers to enforce bans on farmland purchases by nationals from countries deemed hostile or adversarial, with 26 states already having restrictions or outright prohibitions on foreign farmland ownership.
  • Reviewing and potentially clawing back past Chinese farmland acquisitions, as Chinese entities currently own about 265,000 acres of U.S. land, including holdings by major companies like Smithfield Foods and Syngenta, both linked to Chinese ownership.
  • Enhancing penalties for inaccurate or late reporting of foreign farmland ownership and improving transparency and oversight of foreign investments in agriculture.
  • Protecting U.S. agricultural research and innovation from foreign interference, including terminating agreements with foreign adversaries and scrutinizing research funding to prevent intellectual property theft or agroterrorism.
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized the importance of knowing who owns land around military bases to prevent foreign adversaries from gaining strategic advantages.

The move follows bipartisan concerns and legislative actions, such as the 2023 Senate vote (91-7) blocking Chinese businesses from buying U.S. farmland, and local opposition to Chinese-owned projects near sensitive sites, such as a blocked corn milling facility near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.

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Overall, the Trump administration frames this policy as essential to safeguarding U.S. national security, food supply, and technological innovation from foreign adversaries, particularly China, amid rising geopolitical tensions with Beijing.

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