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

In what it calls a comprehensive action plan for agriculture security, USDA unveiled seven critical areas the Trump administration will address, and securing and protecting U.S. farmland from being owned by China topped that list.

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.