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Foreign Ownership
Focusing on Foreign Investments: Congressional Considerations on Evaluating Foreign Acquisitions in U.S. Agriculture
Over the past decade, foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land have grown. At the start of...
Focusing on Foreign Investments: Congress Aims to Add Agriculture to CFIUS
On September 11, 2024, the House passed the Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign...
Farm Bill 2024: Themes in the Proposed Energy and Miscellaneous Titles
As of August 2024, three proposals have been released on the 2024 Farm Bill – one in the House of...
Limits on Land Acquisitions: Three States Amend Their Foreign Ownership Laws
Since January 2024, the majority of states have proposed at least one piece of legislation to...
South Dakota Amends State Restriction on Foreign Acquisitions of Ag Land
On March 4, 2024, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed into law House Bill 1231 (“HB 1231”)...
Eleventh Circuit Narrowly Blocks Florida From Enforcing Foreign Ownership Law
On February 1, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted a partial...
Who Owns the Ag Land? Congress Considering Changes to the Federal Reporting Regime
On January 25, 2024, Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024 (S....
USDA Proposes Updates to Foreign Held Agricultural Land Reporting
Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) announced that it is seeking public...
Who Owns the Business? Corporate Transparency Act and Foreign Entity Disclosures
As previously discussed, the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) (7 U.S.C. §§...