Chinese Land Ownership Increases Dramatically; ArkLATex Leaders Try To Stop It

By T.W. Starr

KTBS-TV

The U.S. produces a food surplus, so shortages aren't a problem. But that's not that case in every part of the world, and one country in particular, China has been very active in buying American land.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows that Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland leapt more than 20-fold in a decade, from $81 million in 2010 to $1.8 billion worth of holdings in 2020.

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