Randy Feenstra will protect farmland so it stays in the hands of Iowa families and not foreign adversaries.

Randy Feenstra · Iowa · Republican

policy impact 4.00 specificity 5.00 extraction confidence 98%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

Foreign Agricultural Restrictions to Maintain Local Agriculture and National Defense (FARMLAND) Act – which would enhance oversight on foreign land ownership by increasing transparency and reporting requirements to ensure Iowa farmland stays in the hands of Iowa farmers.

Feenstra highlights a bill to increase oversight and reporting on foreign land ownership to keep Iowa farmland in Iowa hands.

Feenstra Applauds Passage of Farm Bill Out of House and Highlights Major Victories for Iowa Farmers | Representative Randy Feenstra
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Evidence

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Congress.gov lists Rep. Randy Feenstra as the sponsor of H.R.1920, the FARMLAND Act of 2025, introduced March 6, 2025. The bill would expand federal oversight of foreign investment in U.S. agriculture, add USDA-related enforcement and reporting, prohibit foreign land owners/operators from participating in Farm Service Agency programs, and require a USDA/DHS database of agricultural land owned by foreign persons. Its latest listed action was referral to the House Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture on March 28, 2025, with the bill still at the Introduced stage.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Feenstra took a concrete legislative step directly aligned with the promise, but the standalone bill had not become law as of the available official record.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.1920 - FARMLAND Act of 2025
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The Senate Agriculture Committee’s August 6, 2026 business meeting lists S.____, Agricultural Act of 2026, as not agreed to by roll-call vote, 10-11. The same page shows numerous amendments considered, but the underlying farm bill did not advance from committee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The most recent official congressional development found before the August 13-15 lookback window shows the farm-bill path blocked in the Senate, leaving the farmland-protection promise unresolved rather than delivered in law.

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Business Meeting - Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

Feenstra took direct federal action aligned with the promise by sponsoring the FARMLAND Act of 2025 and advancing similar language through House farm-bill activity, and USDA later implemented related farmland-security and AFIDA enforcement steps during his current service. But the standalone FARMLAND Act had not become law, the broader farm-bill route remained blocked, and the available record does not show a completed federal prohibition or durable legal outcome ensuring Iowa farmland stays out of foreign-adversary hands. This supports partial credit for material advancement, not full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%