Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the nation’s food supply was a national security issue on par with energy and water supplies.

Hands off our dirt. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday the administration will work with state lawmakers to ban sales of U.S. farmland to buyers from China and other countries due to national security concerns.

Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that the department would no longer allow “Chinese nationals” and other foreign adversaries to purchase farmland in the United States. The USDA has already canceled seven active agreements with foreign countries of concern and removed roughly 70 people affiliated with those contracts,