Trump Admin Launches Program to Protect Farms From China

MARY CHASTAIN JUL 9, 2025 3:00 PM

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.”

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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