What farming really is:
Posted on 05/31/2019 9:24:18 AM PDT by Maudeen
All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to "the heartland of America", the truth is that vast stretches of that "heartland" is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans have no idea that this is happening.
These days, a lot of people are warning about the "globalization" of the world economy, but in reality our own soil is rapidly being "globalized".
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Good time to cut agricultural subsidies.
The way I see this is that while they may have title to the land it is still located within the USA, so it is still American land. So there!
So.. roughly an acre for every Mexican we’ve imported.
About 3%.
For perspective, the US controls 2.35 billion acres of land. Not 1% of the country’s land is foreign-owned.
I’d like to see a graph of foreign ownership over time.
I remember reading alarming reports ~25 years ago that Russia was buying up a lot of American farmland.
I keep telling people this but some do not get the idea. Just because they have a title does not mean they can cut it out of the ground and head back home with it.
According to the Mexican constitution Americans legally in Mexico get a 2nd class treatment. Besides being unable to vote one must also be a citizen to own land and Mexico is very restrictive about granting citizenship. Because of that a US citizen besides not being able to vote,and cannot have title in their name to any land property in Mexico. It’s time the US should consider making that reciprocal.
Prohibit and fully legally enforce punishment to violators offering any illegal entrant employment, voting, and land ownership privileges .In other words the incentives to those thinking of sneakimg into this country are removed and those that do better expect expulsion no job no voting no landowning ..
Thanks to Filthy Heathen Liberal Democrats.
I pay rent(property tax) to the government every year on the land I’m suppose to own.
Would $5000/acre be an average price? Around $150 billion worth?
The way to fix this is to correct the trade inbalances, which is what Trump is doing with Tariffs.
When other countries are buying as much trade goods from us as we are buying from there, there is no excess funds to buy our land, equities or debt.
We need more tariffs and they need to be permanent.
a square of land is 640 acres. 30M acres is 46,000 sq miles or roughly the same as Pennsylvania.
Meh...
Only about 20% is foreign-owned farmland, and most of that is by Canadians.
Where they own it may be the problem. Some of the latter generation farm families just aren’t into agriculture.
the Chinese purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013
Smithfield (as in Smithfield Hams with spokesperson Paula Deen) is big on hiring illegals. They've strategically bought up Hawaii despite Hawaii's laws. Mostly the Japanese but China high on the list.
What farming really is:
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