The USDA reveals the national agricultural security action plan to counter Chinese threats

The American Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled its National Agricultural Safety Action Plan on Tuesday morning.

The plan is specifically intended to treat threats from foreign governments, such as China, and how these threats have an impact on American farmers. It has legislative and executive reforms such as the ban on Chinese nationals to obtain agricultural land in the United States, as well as to assess that holds land near military bases.

“Farm products are not only a commodity, it is a lifestyle that underlies America itself. And that is exactly why it is threatened with criminals, political adversaries and hostile regimes that include our lifestyle as a deep and existential threat,” said the USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins

Secretary Brooke Rollins intends to tackle the threats of China and other opponents on American agricultural land on July 8, 2025. (Tom Williams / Getty)

“For them, agricultural land and our farms, because they are a previous heritage, are weapons to return against us,” she continued. “We see it again and again, from the Chinese communist acquisition of American agricultural land to the criminal exploits of our agriculture system, the flight of operational information required to work on the land and beyond. All this takes what is deeply good and transforms it for perverse ends.”

Rollins was joined by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the interior security Kristi Noem.

“As a person responsible for directing the Ministry of Defense, I want to know who has the land around our strategic bases and to understand why foreign entities, foreign companies, foreign persons could buy land around these bases,” said Hegseth.

Cows are gathering in a pasture in Raw Farm in the county of Fresno, California. (Raw farm)

Bondi has directly referred to the way in which agro -terrorism becomes a major concern for administration. Two Chinese nationals were arrested in Michigan last month for allegedly transferred what FBI director Kash Patel described as a “known agro -terrorism agent”.

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“A country that cannot eat, cannot take care of itself and cannot support its needs, and we must be able to feed to ensure that no other country controls us,” said Noem.

Noem said that during his time as governor of southern Dakota, she had signed a law that prohibited governments from China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Russia and the entities that were linked to them to buy agricultural land in the state.

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary on May 9, 2024. The National Agricultural Security Action Plan provided for the ban on the purchase of American agricultural land by Chinese nationals. (Szilard Koszticsak / Mti via AP)

“And I have been watching bad foreign governments for decades, including China, have entered this country, and they stole our intellectual property. They manipulated their motto, they treated us unjustly in trade agreements. They came and bought our treatment societies, stolen our genetics,” she continued.

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Many states have books on books restricting land purchases by those who have links with China and other foreign opponents. In 2021, more than 383,000 acres had links with China, but the number has decreased in recent years, according to Agricultural.