Sen. Baldwin and Grassley introduced Farmland Security Act of 2025

On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Farmland Security Act of 2025 to build on their work to safeguard rural communities and protect American farmland from being secretly bought up by foreign investors. The bipartisan legislation will build on a Baldwin-Grassley law to ensure that all foreign investors, including “shell companies,” who buy American agriculture land report their holdings, strengthen penalties for those who evade filing, and invest in research to better understand the impact foreign ownership of American farmland has on agricultural production capacity. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has catalogued foreign ownership of approximately 45 million acres of American agricultural land, an 85 percent increase since 2010.