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On the recordSeptember 27, 2023
It is time we overhaul the system. We must modernize the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act, which became law in 1978.
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Ernst calls for modernization of agricultural laws to protect U.S. farmland from foreign ownership.

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