By unlocking the export potential China offers the pig industry, not to mention the red meat sector as a whole, we could gain entry into a marketplace which comprises a fifth of the world’s population.Foreign-owned agricultural land in US at 22.2m acres
USDA’s Farm Service Agency reports that in 2009, 22.2million acres of US agricultural land was owned in part by foreign persons.
That is an increase of 1.3 million acres from 2008.
Agricultural land
The annual FSA report shows foreigners have an interest in 1.7 per cent of all privately held US agricultural land.
Also, some 59 per cent of all US forestland has some foreign ownership.
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