Harper Joins National Effort to Secure U.S. Agriculture

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with national ag leaders in support of the newly announced National Farm Security Action Plan. Unveiled earlier this month by the Trump Administration, the plan addresses growing concerns about foreign influence—especially from China—on American agriculture, and it reinforces the importance of food and farmland as national security assets.

Harper joined USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and others in Washington, D.C., to support the plan’s seven core priorities, which range from boosting supply chain resilience to cracking down on foreign farmland ownership and fraud in ag programs. “China and other foreign adversaries are a very real threat to American agriculture,” said Harper, who helped lead the charge to ban China from purchasing Georgia farmland during the last legislative session.

According to the office of Commissioner Harper, Chinese entities now own more than 400,000 acres of U.S. farmland, worth over $2 billion—including properties near key military installations. The office also pointed to high-profile land purchases in Oregon, North Dakota, and Texas as examples of escalating concern.

For more on the plan, visit https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/farm-security-nat-sec.pdf