WindAction | Is China really buying up U.S. farmland? Here's what we found
In late July, the Senate passed a ban on China, Russia, North Korea and Iran buying American agricultural land, but it's unclear if the amendment will make it into the final defense spending bill that will go to a vote in Congress this fall. One of the sponsors of the amendment, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, ...said, "Any acre of land that the Chinese Communist Party can use against the United States is a threat that must be taken seriously. We have already witnessed the danger their malign influence poses in our backyard as they bought critical land near our military installatio...