Dear Eric Hovde: No, wet head, China is not buying up large stretches of American agricultural land. Best, Retiring Guy

 

Hadlin:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 

U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde, who is running against Baldwin in Wisconsin, recently claimed that China is buying up large stretches of American agricultural land. 

Wendon Zhang, an assistant professor of economics with Cornell University, joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” and poured some cold water on that idea. 

Zhang and two other researchers recently published an article — “Mapping and Contextualizing Foreign Ownership and Leasing of U.S. Farmland” — in the 2024 Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

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