Last progress July 14, 2025 (4 months ago)
Introduced on July 14, 2025 by Kevin Cramer
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
This bill adds the Secretary of Agriculture to the federal committee that reviews foreign investments for national security when deals involve farms, farm biotech, or the agriculture industry (like transport, storage, or processing) . It also tells that committee to check certain farmland purchases or leases by foreign buyers when the Department of Agriculture flags them, and to decide if a national security review is needed or if other action should be taken .
A “reportable” farmland deal is one the Agriculture Department believes could fall under the committee’s rules based on intelligence, involves a buyer from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran, and must be reported to USDA under existing farm land reporting law. These special checks end for a country if it is removed from the federal “foreign adversaries” list .
| Key point | What it means |
|---|---|
| Who is affected | Foreign buyers from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran making deals for U.S. agricultural land; U.S. farms and ag companies tied to land, biotech, storage, transport, or processing . |
| What changes | The Agriculture Secretary joins the national security review team for ag-related deals, and flagged farmland deals must be checked to see if a review is needed . |
| When it applies | Now and going forward; the extra checks for a given country stop if that country is taken off the federal foreign adversaries list . |