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foreigners in the 18-month period. ’‘On an annual basis, it suggests that the nation's farmlands may be passing into foreign ownership at a rate of about one-half million acres per year, with purchases heavily concentrated in the South,” Robinson said.
The Seventh District lawmaker was a co-sponsor in the House of Representatives of a new law requiring foreigners to report their land acquisitions and transations to the Secretary of Agriculture. He said it had given impetus to the study just released, and would lead to more extensive federal monitoring in the future.
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