JEFFERSON CITY — A push to ban foreign companies from owning farmland in Missouri is facing pushback from major industry groups. Each seeks to limit foreign ownership of Missouri agriculture land on the grounds of food security and national security. His office would be in charge of tracking foreign ownership, while the Missouri attorney general’s office would enforce the law. A similar measure sponsored by Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, would ban new foreign ownership beginning next year. Missouri’s law against foreign agricultural ownership dates to 1978, when increased foreign investment in the U.S. was creating concerns about economic autonomy.
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