Foreign Ownership of American Agriculture Continues to Grow | Eastern North Carolina Now

According to this article published in The Center Square, investments from China held $2 billion worth of American farmland in 2020, up tenfold in just a decade.

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    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Brian Balfour.

    According to this article published in The Center Square, investments from China held $2 billion worth of American farmland in 2020, up tenfold in just a decade.

    But China's ownership of U.S. agriculture is not the largest foreign investment. That designation belongs to the Netherlands, topping out at over $6 billion.

    The chart below shows the ten largest foreign investments in American farmland.


    Six states, according to the article, legally ban foreign ownership of farmland. These states are: Iowa, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Minnesota, Mississippi, and North Dakota.
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