USDA released a map showing Chinese-owned farmland in relation to military bases across the U.S. The map was included in USDA’s unveiling of the National Farm Security Action Plan this week, a ...

The Agriculture Department’s new farm security plan should help strengthen federal efforts to track foreign influence over U.S. agriculture, but it could be hampered by a lack of personnel, policy ...

Jiang Lyu, minister for economic and commercial affairs at the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. talks from the stage at the 2026 Top Producer Summit. “We are in this phase of stabilizing this relationship, ...

USDA launched a new national framework tying agriculture more directly to national security and signed a formal agreement with the Department of War. Livestock producers will receive more than $1.89 ...

On July 8, United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced a new installment of the Make Agriculture Great Again initiative, called the USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan. With ...

A robust agricultural sector is a key bedrock of American national security because a nation that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. Food independence ensures that the United States is not ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking new actions to protect American farmland and supply chains from foreign adversaries. The USDA is seeking public input to modernize the Agricultural Foreign ...

Tom Harkin represented Iowa in the U.S. Senate from 1985 to 2015. As someone who spent four decades in Congress fighting for the well-being of American farmers, rural communities, and farm animals, I ...