Advance farmland security legislation to improve transparency and compliance for foreign ownership reporting of U.S. farmland.

Farmland Security Act would improve transparency and compliance on reporting requirements of foreign ownership of U.S. farmland;

Grassley pointed to the Farmland Security Act as one of his bills included in the Senate farm bill discussion draft.

Q&A: Farm Bill Update
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Congress.gov lists Chuck Grassley as an original cosponsor of S.4667, the Farmland Security Act of 2022, with a cosponsor date of 07/28/2022.

Grassley took concrete legislative action by original-cosponsoring the Farmland Security Act, a bill focused on foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land.

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Cosponsors - S.4667 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Farmland Security Act of 2022
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Congress.gov shows S.4667 was introduced on 07/28/2022, referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and had the status Introduced. The CRS summary says the bill would require USDA to submit an annual report on foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land and establish a public database.

The bill matched the commitment’s transparency goal, but Congress.gov shows it did not advance beyond introduction in the 117th Congress.

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S.4667 - Farmland Security Act of 2022 117th Congress (2021-2022)
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CRS states that the 117th Congress enacted certain new USDA reporting requirements related to disclosure of foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural lands, while also noting current federal law imposes no restrictions on how much private agricultural land may be foreign-owned.

Some AFIDA-related reporting requirements were enacted, but broader farmland ownership restrictions and further reforms remained live policy questions for later Congresses.

partial same_term A for effort

Foreign Ownership and Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land
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GAO found USDA did not share timely AFIDA data, had flawed processes for collecting and reporting key information, and lacked plans and timelines for the online submission process and public database Congress required by the end of 2025.

GAO shows the underlying transparency and compliance problem was still not fully resolved after enactment of reporting-related requirements.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Foreign Investments in U.S. Agricultural Land: Enhancing Efforts to Collect, Track, and Share Key Information Could Better Identify National Security Risks
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GAO reports that USDA began work on an online filing portal and revised FSA-153 form, but projected that a full portal and public database would cost $36.7 million and require additional funds.

Implementation of the promised transparency infrastructure had begun but was not complete, supporting a partial rather than delivered assessment.

partial same_term A for effort

Foreign Investments in U.S. Agricultural Land: Enhancing Efforts to Collect, Track, and Share Key Information Could Better Identify National Security Risks
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GAO says USDA identified suspected AFIDA non-filers through data matching and related outreach, closed one data-mining recommendation as implemented, but other recommendations on timely sharing, verification, and complete reporting remained open.

There was measurable compliance progress, but GAO still treated key transparency and data-reliability reforms as unfinished.

partial same_term A for effort

Foreign Investments in U.S. Agricultural Land: Enhancing Efforts to Collect, Track, and Share Key Information Could Better Identify National Security Risks
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%