Dakota Digest
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Plans to block China land ownership
Pres. Donald Trump’ s administration will pursue a ban on Chinese ownership of U. S. farmland as part of an effort to strengthen farm security, according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. Rollins said officials will also try to revoke lands already owned by China-backed entities.
The administration will“ take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries,” she said.
To protect U. S. farmland, the USDA, with help from the Justice Department, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and cooperative state and local governments, will seek to block investment by foreign adversaries and launch an online tool to help farmers report on potential unknown foreign ownership.
The administration will look for vulnerabilities in the agricultural supply chain and attempt to ensure crop and nutrition programs are not being used to fund terrorist or criminal activity, while cutting down on fraud and abuse. The
Jaxon Zimney, Bismarck along with his grandpa Roger Bjerke with whopper bluegill and walleye from Big Stone Lake, SD this summer. Jaxon’ s bluegill was 10.5 inches, while grandpa Roger’ s walleye was 8.3 lbs. and measured 28 inches.
initiative also calls for making sure foreign governments cannot access USDA research grants or other department funding programs.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, said China owned 2.2 million acres of farmland in his state alone – a number that actually describes the acres of land owned by all foreign entities in the state. Chinese entities own no acres in Alabama, according to USDA data.
ND Pronghorn Lottery Held
By August 12 recent, North Dakota’ s ever-popular pronghorn antelope tags were announced, from a usual high numbers of hunters. There were 1,305 licenses available for this fall, and all were issued. In total, 16,488 applications were received, including 837 gratis applications.
In addition to prized bighorn sheep, moose and elk licenses, antelope are highly sought.
The most recent yearend USDA report on foreign investment, in 2023, showed Chinese-linked investors held about 276,000 acres of U. S. farmland nationwide.
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