Month: May 2019

This was the first of several podcast and video podcasts that we will be publishing over the next several months. Hopefully we will also be able to publish them in Spanish. Both audio and video versions are available on iTunes, Stitcher and tunic. They should be available on other systems soon. Search for Todd County DFL and sign up today to hear or see them as they come out. Or click on the following links and chose subscribe.

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On Thursday, President Donald Trump praised farmers across the country as true patriots, as he unveiled a $16 billion bailout plan for farmers struggling to make ends meet amid trade tensions between the U.S. and China. 

“You could say with our farmers, they’re patriots,” Trump said, adding that his administration “will ensure that our farmers get the relief that they need.” 

While America’s farmers might be “patriots,” American farmland is increasingly being bought up by outside investors. As NPR noted in a recent report, nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland were held by foreign investors in 2015, nearly double the acres owned by foreign investors a decade before. 

American soil.

Those are two words that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can’t be be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades, which is raising alarm bells in farming communities.

When the stock market tanked during the last recession, foreign investors began buying up big swaths of U.S. farmland. And because there are no federal restrictions on the amount of land that can be foreign-owned, it’s been left up to individual states to decide on any limitations.

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