A new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) online portal streamlines reporting of transactions of U.S. agricultural land by foreign persons, including businesses and governments, under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA).

The new online portal is part of a broader effort to strengthen enforcement and protect American farmland, USDA said.

“President Trump is putting America First, and this includes increasing transparency and scrutiny of one of our most valuable national assets: American farmland. We are working to improve reporting of foreign-owned land in the United States. This move to streamline the reporting portal will increase compliance and assist our efforts to effectively enforce accurate reporting of interests held by foreign adversaries in U.S. farmland,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said. “The online portal will allow us to obtain verifiable information about foreign interests in American agricultural land and protect the security of our farmers.”

Farmers, ranchers and members of the general public can now electronically report transactions involving U.S. agricultural land by foreign persons under AFIDA.

The portal is available at afida.landmark.usda.gov and can be accessed with the Login.gov secure sign-in service.

The new portal is part of USDA’s efforts to streamline its process for electronic submission and retention of AFIDA disclosures, as initially required by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. The data obtained from AFIDA disclosures are used in the preparation of an annual report to Congress, which is published online. USDA is also sharing its annual AFIDA report for 2024 with Congress, which is available online. The report lists foreign holdings of U.S. agricultural land as 46 million acres, as of Dec. 31, 2024, and includes a section on land held and acquired by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in recent years.

AFIDA became law in 1978, and its regulations were created to establish a nationwide system for the collection of information pertaining to foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land. The regulations require foreign investors who acquire, transfer or hold an interest in U.S. agricultural land to report such holdings and transactions to the secretary of agriculture.