Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach touched on a bill that will probably come back up in the 2025 session of the Kansas Legislature when he spoke to a Military Affairs Council breakfast audience in Junction City on Thursday. The measure would prevent the purchase of Kansas agricultural land by foreign national corporations. In the United States 35.2 million acres are already owned by foreign nationals.
Kobach noted that the Chinese government uses nontraditional surveillance methods. Acquisition of land could allow food production control as leverage against the U.S. Surveillance of U.S military installations was another concern.
This measure did not receive legislative approval in Kansas in the recent past but in 24 other states has already been approved. Some of those include Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and South Dakota.
The Military Affairs Council of the Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the breakfast at the Geary County Convention Center.