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As Foreign Investment in U.S. Farmland Grows, Efforts to Ban and Limit the Increase Mount

June 8, 2019/

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The latest government data shows that foreign investors control 28.3 million acres of farmland, an area about the size of the state of Ohio. Efforts to pull back the reins on that growth are starting to gain traction.

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

 


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