Foreign Ownership of Ag Land: Federal & State Legislative and Litigation Update – National Agricultural Law Center

Foreign Ownership of Ag Land:

Federal & State Legislative and Litigation Update

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In recent years, foreign investments in agricultural land have garnered significant attention at both the state and federal levels.  As of December 31, 2023, foreign persons reported holding an interest in almost 45 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, accounting for 3.5% of  all privately held U.S. agricultural land and about 2% of all U.S. land.  At the state level, approximately 30 states now have some type of restriction on certain nonresident aliens, foreign business entities, or foreign governments. These laws vary though there are some similarities.  In the past couple of years, several federal legislative proposals introduced in Congress as well as some legislative enactments, Executive Orders, and developments within USDA.   This webinar will update on state-level developments, developments regarding the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA), relevant Executive Orders, key federal proposals and activity, and relevant litigation in the foreign investment space.    

Event Details:

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (ET)

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (CT)

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Harrison M. Pittman, Director, National Agricultural Law Center

Harrison M. Pittman is the director of the National Agricultural Law Center. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law after attending Mississippi State University and graduating from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and a minor in history. He then earned an LL.M. in Agricultural Law from the University of Arkansas School of Law’s Graduate Program in Agricultural Law. Harrison has worked at the NALC since 2001, serving in roles including graduate assistant, staff attorney, co-director, interim director, and currently director, a position he has held since 2007. He is an active member of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA) and received the AALA Distinguished Service Award in 2025 and the inaugural AALA Excellence in Agricultural Law Award in 2010. He has taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law as part of the Ben J. Altheimer Distinguished Professorship for Agricultural Law and has served as a visiting professor at Drake University Law School, as well as teaching Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Introduction to Agricultural Law in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, & Life Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, where he received the 2011-2012 Agricultural Business Club Teaching Award; he has also taught online agricultural law courses through the University of Arkansas’ William H. Bowen School of Law and Faulkner Law – Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. He is an active member of the Rotary Club of Fayetteville and serves on the Board of Directors for Leading Harvest.

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