I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1920 
To amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 to 
strengthen oversight over foreign investment in the United States agricul-
tural industry, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2025 
Mr. FEENSTRA (for himself, Ms. MCDONALD RIVET, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. RILEY 
of New York, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, and Mr. SORENSEN) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and 
in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, and 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure 
Act of 1978 to strengthen oversight over foreign invest-
ment in the United States agricultural industry, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Agricultural 
Restrictions to Maintain Local Agriculture and National 
Defense Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘FARMLAND Act of 2025’’. 
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SEC. 2. AGRICULTURAL FOREIGN INVESTMENT. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1) agriculture is vital for the national security 
and economic prosperity of the United States and is 
a key element of United States national power; 
(2) agriculture of the United States feeds the 
people of the United States and the world, and has 
been a key contributor to advancements in tech-
nology and medicine; 
(3) strategic competitors of the United States 
have hegemonic goals to dominate the global agri-
culture industry and undermine the United States 
agriculture sector through intellectual property theft 
of seeds and other patented agriculture-related tech-
nologies; 
(4) China in particular has increased agricul-
tural investments tenfold over the past decade and 
continues to make investments in United States ag-
riculture, agribusiness, and animal processing indus-
tries, including by acquiring ownership of farmland 
in the United States; 
(5) the United States must prevent agricultural 
espionage and theft of intellectual property con-
ducted by China and other foreign entities of con-
cern (as defined in section 9 of the Agricultural For-
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eign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 
3508)); 
(6) agricultural intellectual property theft may 
enable global competitors to undercut United States 
producers in international seed markets; 
(7) the Federal Government does not fully exer-
cise its authorized oversight over investment trans-
actions within the agricultural industry, causing— 
(A) United States farmland to be under 
foreign acquisition; and 
(B) the influence of foreign adversaries on 
agriculture in the United States to be an un-
known risk factor; and 
(8) the Federal Government must enforce and 
modernize existing laws to monitor and prevent ma-
lign actions of foreign entities of concern (as defined 
in section 9 of the Agricultural Foreign Investment 
Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3508)) on the 
farms and land of the United States. 
(b) CIVIL PENALTIES.—Section 3 of the Agricultural 
Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 
3502) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (d); 
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