(Background) Soybeans grow on a farm on July 09, 2025 near Belvidere, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) / (L-Top) U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is interviewed outside the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
OAN Staff Blake Wolf 4:12 PM – Wednesday, July 9, 2025
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins stated on Tuesday that Chinese nationals, along with other foreign adversaries, will no longer be allowed to purchase farmland in the United States — under the newly announced National Farm Security Action Plan.
Rollins cited national security and food security threats for the reasoning behind the change.
As a result, the USDA has already canceled seven agreements with foreign adversaries, removing a total of around 70 individuals affiliated with the contracts. The USDA is also in the process of removing 550 other foreign entities as well.
“Today we are taking this purpose and our American farmland back,” Rollins stated. “American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us.”
“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,” she continued.
“For them, agricultural lands and our farms, because they are a previous inheritance, are weapons to be turned against us,” Rollins added. “We see it again and again, from Chinese communist acquisition of American farmland to criminal exploits of our system of agriculture, to the theft of operational information required to work the land and beyond. All of this takes what is profoundly good and turns it toward evil purposes.”
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins highlights the importance of banning China from owning American farmland.
“The Chinese owning farmland in our Country is a massive national security issue.” pic.twitter.com/wL7m9SqM0v
Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem spoke at the unveiling of the National Farm Security Action Plan, where she explained: “A country who cannot feed itself, cannot take care of itself, and cannot provide for itself, is not secure, and we have to be able to feed ourselves to make sure that no other country ever controls us.”
“And I’ve watched for decades as evil foreign governments, including China, have come into this country, and they have stolen our intellectual property. They’ve manipulated their currency, they’ve treated us unfairly in trade deals. They’ve come in and purchased up our processing companies, stolen our genetics,” Noem added.
The announcement follows after Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.) introduced legislation prohibiting “Chinese Community Party-linked companies” from purchasing or leasing land around military bases.
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