US farmland continues folding to foreign-owned interests - Investigate Midwest

US farmland continues folding to foreign-owned interests - Investigate Midwest

Nearly every state in the country has seen an increase in foreign interests owning farmland since 2014, according to USDA data.Foreign countries and interests own more than 45 million acres of farmland in the country, which accounts for just over 3% of the nation’s private farmland, but the number of agricultural acres owned by foreign interests increased by 67% from 2014 to 2023.While Texas, Colorado and Maine have the largest amount of foreign…