Washington – Recently, Nebraska Representative Don Bacon, Minnesota’s Brad Finstad and other lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation, H.R. 4362, the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2025, to address concerns about foreign farmland ownership.
The AFIDA Improvements Act codifies recommendations published by the GAO to amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) to ensure there is timely and detailed data sharing of foreign investments in agricultural land transactions, better oversight and validation of information, and a better way to help identify those foreign entities who do not file notification they have purchased land in the United States. This legislation will help the United States better track and combat the CCP trying to buy up farmland.
The full text of H.R. 4362 the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2025 can be found here.
“Food security is national security, and Americans deserve to know how and to what extent foreign investment in American farmland, especially by our adversaries like China, poses a risk to our family farms and food supply,” said Rep. Finstad. “As a fourth-generation farmer, I believe it is critical that American farmland be owned by American farmers and I’m proud to join Rep. Bacon in introducing the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, which will help us prevent foreign entity ownership.”
Last Congress, AFIDA was successfully included in the Farm Bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee.
News release from Rep. Bacon’s office
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