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rmah
on Oct 19, 2021
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High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers a...
That article says "As of the start of 2020, Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion". That's out of 900mil acres of farmland in the USA. So about 0.02% -- hardly a "huge amount".
all2
on Oct 19, 2021
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True. For added perspective, the top 100 largest land owners possess about 40 million acres throughout the US [0].
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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-i...
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