A Bipartisan Push on China Is at Risk of Falling Apart Alongside the Farm Bill

A proposal to increase transparency on foreign ownership of U.S. land has support across Congress, but has a cloudy path toward becoming law this year.

A tractor harvesting corn.
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Members of Congress from both parties are watching their priorities on China slip away as part of a faltering Farm Bill renewal. And there’s not much they can do about it besides wait for next year.

“It doesn’t look like we’re gonna get a Farm Bill,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday. “All these add-ons we have … [that] I want to vote on, we won’t have a chance this year.”

One of those provisions would increase transparency on foreign ownership of U.S. land.