No, China is not buying up all US farmland
May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024
ITHACA, New York, May 29 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Despite concerns that China is buying or leasing all the farmland in the United States, new Cornell-led research shows that this is not the case.
Using a federal dataset of more than 40,000 foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land as of 2020, Wendong Zhang, assistant professor and extension economist at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and collaborators show th . . .
Despite concerns that China is buying or leasing all the farmland in the United States, new Cornell-led research shows that this is not the case.
Using a federal dataset of more than 40,000 foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land as of 2020, Wendong Zhang, assistant professor and extension economist at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and collaborators show th . . .