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The USDA released its National Farm Safety Action Plan Tuesday morning.
The program is specifically designed to address threats from foreign governments, such as China, and how these threats affect American farmers. It proposed legislative and administrative reforms, such as prohibiting Chinese nationals from obtaining farmland in the United States and assessing who owns land near military bases.
Brooke Rollins, USDA Secretary, said: “The farm produce is not only a commodity, but a way of life based on the United States itself. That’s why it is threatened by criminals, political opponents, and hostile regimes that understand our way of life as a far-reaching and existential threat to themselves.”
Secretary Brooke Rollins outlines plans to address threats from China and other rivals on U.S. farmland on July 8, 2025. (Tom Williams/Getty)
“For them, agricultural land and our farms, because they are former inheritances, are weapons against us,” she continued. “We see it again and again, from the acquisition of American farmland by Chinese communism to the criminal exploitation of our agricultural system, to theft of operating information needed for working land and beyond. All of this takes profound benefits and turns it to evil purposes.”
Rollins and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“As the head of the Ministry of Defense, I want to know who owns land around our bases and strategic foundations and understand why foreign entities, foreign companies, foreigners may buy land around these bases,” Hegsth said.
Cattle gather on the ranch in Raw Farm in Fresno County, California. (Original Farm)
Bondy directly mentioned how agricultural terrorism became the government’s main focus. Last month, two Chinese nationals described as “FBI Director Kash Patel” on suspicion of smuggling “As known agricultural terrorists.”
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“A country that cannot support itself, cannot take care of itself, cannot provide itself is unsafe, and we must be able to support ourselves to ensure that no other country can control us,” Noam said.
Norm said she signed a law that prohibits her during her tenure as governor of South Dakota Chinese GovernmentIran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Russia and entities related to their purchase of farmland in the state.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech at a press conference held in Budapest, Hungary on May 9, 2024. The National Farm Safety Action Plan requires Chinese nationals to be prohibited from purchasing American farmland. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
“For decades, I have been watching evil foreign governments, including China, come into this country, and they steal our intellectual property. They manipulate their currency, they treat us unfairly in terms of trade transactions. They come in and buy our processing companies, steal our genetics.”
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Many states have laws on their books that restrict land purchases for people with connections to China and other foreign rivals. According to 2021, more than 383,000 acres have ties to China, but the figures have fallen in recent years. Agricultural diving.
