US & UK conspire to buy Australia

“Investors in the United Kingdom and United States own two-thirds of Australia’s foreign-owned agricultural land, the government’s new land register has revealed.

The first report of the registry of foreign ownership of agricultural land, to be released on Wednesday, shows that 13.6% of Australia’s 385m hectares of agricultural land is foreign-owned.

Of the 52.1m hectares of land that are foreign-owned, UK investors account for 27.5m hectares, almost 53%.

US investors own 7.7m hectares, followed by the Netherlands (2.98m) and Singapore (1.9m).”
- The Guardian (2016)

In case it wasn’t obvious … my point has NOTHING to do with Australia.
(It’s all about conspiracy theories and perspective and a grain of salt).

 

“Foreign persons held an interest in nearly 37.6 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 2020. This is 2.9 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 1.7 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in compliance with the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978.”

- USDA Foreign Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land Through December 31, 2020

 

“The billionaire tech mogul and philanthropist has quietly amassed nearly 270,000 acres of farmland across the country, but that's still a relatively small slice of the nation's nearly 900 million total farm acres.”