One Republican's plan to save America's farmland from foreign investors

International entities currently “hold an interest in 40.8 million acres of U.S. agricultural land,” the United States Department of Agriculture reported. It is a startling figure that is widely unknown and regularly gets ignored, and it’s information to which Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) brought awareness with a press release this week. It’s also a phenomenon that Rosendale wants to halt. He introduced the Land and National Defense, or LAND, Act this week to “protect American farmland from foreign adversaries and land near our military bases,” a press release read.