Major changes to federal foreign ownership reporting loom

Major changes to federal foreign ownership reporting loom

A federal report shows Arkansas had the nation’s second-highest number of farm acres divested from foreign ownership amid a trend in which the number of states allowing to foreign ownership of farmland was halved. Harrison Pittman, director of the National Agricultural Law Center, discussed the evolution in scope and enforcement authority of state laws on foreign ownership, as well as previewing major changes at the federal level during a July w…