2024 Legal Spotlight: Foreign Land Ownership
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I’m Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Today is the final installment of what has been a four-part series involving legal issues and agriculture. Giving us the insight this week has been Director of the Ag Law Center Harrison Pittman. So far we’ve dove into the Endangered Species Act, Waters of the U.S., and Proposition 12 ad Pittman talks through what his organization perceives will be the biggies in 2024. Up next, foreign land ownership…
“We're going to be several states advance bills again this year. Because there have been numerous federal proposals but they haven't had a good vehicle yet legislatively to get enacted, I would expect something at the federal level to be enacted as potentially part of the farm bill process, which is, you know, within basically delay with a one-year extension. But they're still working on a multi-year farm bill that could happen there, or parts of these federal proposals could find their way into an appropriations bill should we be able to get one, hopefully without a government shutdown.”
According to the National Ag Law Center, approximately twenty-four states have laws that seek to restrict to some degree foreign ownership or investments in private agricultural land within the boundaries of their state. That list does include Florida and Alabama. For more on what we’ve talked about this week, head on back to our website, AgInfo.NET.
