Beginning, limited-resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers make up as much as 40 percent of all U.S. farms. Some Federal conservation programs contain provisions that encourage participation by such “targeted” farmers and the 2008 Farm Act furthered these efforts. This report compares...

Foreign persons owned 14.1 million acres of u.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1994. This is slightly more than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.65 percent of all land in the united States. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in...