by Elizabeth | Oct 31, 2023 | Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, Foreign Ownership, Forestry, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, Spotlighting State Restrictions on Foreign Land Investments
On April 11, 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law Senate Bill 383 (“SB 383”) which seeks to restrict certain foreign investments in land located within the state. Since January 2023, the majority of states have proposed at least one piece of...
by Elizabeth | Oct 19, 2023 | Checking in on Crop Insurance, Climate Change, Commodity Credit Corporation, Conservation Programs, Crop Insurance, Disaster Assistance Programs, Farm Bill, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Finance and Credit, Samantha Capaldo, United States Department of Agriculture
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, for the 2022 crop year, there were 493 million acres of land in the U.S. enrolled in the Federal Crop Insurance Program (“FCIP”). USDA estimated that row crops accounted for half of the acres enrolled in the FCIP...
by Elizabeth | Oct 17, 2023 | Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, Spotlighting State Restrictions on Foreign Land Investments
On May 31, 2023, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Alabama Property Protection Act (codified under Ala. Code § 35-1-1.1) which seeks to restrict certain foreign purchases of land, specifically agricultural land, within the state. Last year, the Alabama...
by Elizabeth | Oct 5, 2023 | Department of Labor, Farm Labor, Immigration, Labor, Samantha Capaldo, United States Department of Agriculture
The H-2A program allows agricultural employers to hire foreign workers when there is a shortage in domestic labor. According to Philp Martin from UC Davis and Zachariah Rutledge from Arizona State University, H-2A workers account for approximately ten percent of all...
by Elizabeth | Oct 3, 2023 | Foreign Ownership, Land Ownership, Micah Brown, State Proposals on Restricting Foreign Ownership of Farmland
In the past two years or so, as discussed in the first article of this series, the issue of restricting foreign investments and ownership in privately held farmland emerged or reemerged in the majority of states. This reemerging interest in restricting foreign...
