Trump Admin Launches Program to Protect Farms From China
“We feed the world. We lead the world. And we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods.”
President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, launched the National Farm Security Action Plan.
“We feed the world. We lead the world. And we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods,” said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “This Action Plan puts America’s farmers, families, and future first—exactly where they belong. Under President Trump’s leadership, American agriculture will be strong, secure, and resilient. He will never stop fighting for our farmers and our ranchers.”
BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced the National Farm Security Action Plan, a strategy to protect American farmlands from foreign influence which includes banning China from buying farmland.pic.twitter.com/xgiM8uFAOc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 8, 2025
The National Farm Security Action Plan targets seven areas:
- Secure and Protect American Farmland – Address U.S. foreign farmland ownership from adversaries head on. Total transparency. Tougher penalties.
- Enhance Agricultural Supply Chain Resilience – Refocus domestic investment into key manufacturing sectors and identify non-adversarial partners to work with when domestic production is not available. Plan for contingencies.
- Protect U.S. Nutrition Safety Net from Fraud and Foreign Exploitation – Billions have been stolen by foreign crime rings. That ends now.
- Defend Agricultural Research and Innovation – No more sweetheart deals or secret pacts with hostile nations. American ideas stay in America.
- Put America First in Every USDA Program – From farm loans to food safety, every program will reflect the America First agenda.
- Safeguard Plant and Animal Health – Crack down on bio-threats before they ever reach our soil.
- Protect Critical Infrastructure – Farms, food, and supply chains are national security assets—and will be treated as such.
Leslie recently wrote about the arrest of two Chinese nationals accused of “potential agroterrorism.”
The government accused the nationals “of conspiring to bring the fungus Fusarium graminearum (classified in scientific literature as a potential agroterrorism weapon) into the country supposedly for research purposes at a University of Michigan laboratory.”
We’ve also had numerous stories about China purchasing farmland in America, especially near military bases, spanning back to 2022.
Many marijuana farms across the country have connections to China.
Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ threatened to sue Oklahoma over its immigration law despite AG Genter Drummond telling Congress how Biden’s immigration policies affected the state:
“A very large population of Mexican cartel members and Chinese syndicated crime organization members, who have found a way to Oklahoma via the Mexican border,” Drummond said.
He said one of the biggest problems is the drug movement.
“We know with absolute certainty that the fentanyl product is coming from China into Mexico, manufactured in Mexico,” Drummond said.
In 2022, a quadruple murder shook Oklahoma at an illegal marijuana farm in Hennessey, OK. A Chinese national pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder. He claimed the four people owed him $300,000.
A month later, the DOJ announced a 10-count indictment against Los Angeles-based people of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel in connection with a massive drug money laundering scheme totaling over $50 million linked to Chinese organized crime.
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Don’t stop with farms and don’t stop with the Chinese. Prevent any adversary from being a majority (or controlling) owner in anything in this country, China wouldn’t allow an American to own a factory. The reverse should be true and frankly extended out to all countries. As with tariffs, tit for tat, and if that ensnares allies like the Japanese, so be it.
Fixed that for you. The CCP doesn’t allow U.S. ownership of any factory/company/business that resides within their borders.
Where China is concerned, they have an outstanding debt which should be extracted with compounded interest. China likes debt traps, they are in one now, no more BS. It is a good time to start collecting, starting with any land they own.
This post on X (with apologies to “Men in Black”) would explain LI’s silence on the Epstein cover-up …
https://x.com/Lukewearechange/status/1942971689240818061
It’s not easy to mess up badly enough to make Jamie Raskin look good, but Trump did it:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-democrats-demand-release-epstein-200319402.html
How about this, Raskin. How about we release all of the Epstein files, unreacted and in their full glory, no matter who they name. Betting there’s a few “top democrats” that don’t want that to ever happen. So all or nothing, that’s the deal.
Off topic AGAIN, dingus.
Trump’s cover-up of the Epstein files has been just about the hottest “topic” on X and in the media for two days now. It’s likely to alienate enough first-time DJT voters to cost Trump the midterms.
Why do you want LI to keep ignoring it?
Off topic, dingus.
I’m sure there’s somewhere else you can go complain.
Actually, LI seems to be the only news/political website that isn’t covering this scandal.
Off topic, Moonmouth, means “your post does not have anything to do with the article.”
As has already been noted, if you don’t like the content here please feel free to start your own site.
I’m sure JR and TeeJayVee will be happy to post there.
Why would I need to as start my own site? As I’ve already told you, just about every political/news site except LI — including people who had been strong DJT supporters — is devoting lots of time to Trump’s cover-up of the Epstein files.
if we are really worried about communism/fascism then why is omar in charge of anything
especially if it is allowed access to any military information
Why is Omar still a citizen and has not been deported yet?
Honestly? Because, so far as I’ve seen, she did not commit fraud on her immigration or naturalization. No fraud, at least provable fraud, means she remains a US citizen with all the rights and responsibilities of one.
Which stinks, because I agree with you that she needs to go.
Now THIS I can agree with. She has violated her Congressional Oath more times than I can count. We may not be able to take her citizenship and deport her (no provable fraud at this time), but there should be a way to ban her from any public office higher than the local dog catcher.
The government should FORCE all existing foreign-owned land of significant size to be sold, with current owners being fairly compensated. I would even negate that 20% uranium land deal that Hillary made with the Russians. I can’t people as a “people” – we are incredibly stupid beyond belief.
And does said land then become federal land? (Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!)
Or does the government favor certain people/corporations to make the bids?
Is it an open auction? What if no one wants it?
I would say start with open auctions. For farmland, if no one takes a particular parcel, then split it into smaller pieces. I’d say continue that until it gets to down to, say, 100 acre parcels. At that point, if no one buys it, it becomes open range.
For mines, like the aforementioned uranium deal, working at a law firm that does a heavy amount of landmineral rights, someone will definitely buy it. At open auction. No private bids or government favored buyers.
Apply the value of the uranium mine as a payment on China’s debt.
Address U.S. foreign farmland ownership
This is where I’m having trouble. First, how are they going to address it?
Second, if they ban Chinese (or even all foreign) ownership of “agricultural” land, how will they define it (if the farmer sells it, does it then have to remain in agricultural production? it can’t be turned into housing?) and on what Constitutional basis will they stop people from selling to whomever they want?
I’m all for keeping China and others from buying up a bunch of land, but how do you stop it without undermining the right to property (and, therefore, its disposal) or causing lots of horrid unintended consequences down the road. Will government labels of land use become more rigid? One of our big complaints about the EPA in the last few decades was their restrictions on land use.
First, I don’t think it will be a ban on agricultural land but a ban on all Chinese/foreign purchase of all land (say anything greater then 5 acres). A Chinese national can have a house (within a reasonable commute to his/her consulate) with a couple acres for a garden/whatever. Nothing more. At least that’s how I envision it. Chinese/foreign government/company/agent? Not a chance in heck.
But let’s say they do just “agricultural” land. We define it as “if it has been used for agricultural purposes anytime over the past 250 years, then it it treated as agricultural land now. There you go.
As for “on what Constitutional basis will they stop people from selling to whomever they want?” The exact same Constitutional basis they use to prevent the sale of military technology, weapon tech, etc. etc.. There are thousands, if not millions, of products and product categories that cannot be sold to any foreign agent/company. It hasn’t seemed to “undermining the right to property (and, therefore, its disposal) or causing lots of horrid unintended consequences down the road”.
Just my $0.02. You get what you pay for.
And to whomever downvoted him, his post does make some good points. I think they can easily be overcome, but that doesn’t make them any less valid.
the usa government REGULARLY strips american citizens via the eminent domain which has been abused more and more by the government and the scotus upholding such bs as
the land would be put to better use as a larger tax entity etc
So sonce that is 100% true
then ANYTHING else in the context of foreign ownership would be fair game
like it or not