Sen. Doug Beck has offered SB243. This bill stops foreign corporate ownership of #Missouri farmland by prohibiting any future purchases of Missouri farmland by foreign corporations.
It also eliminates the W-9 loophole that essentially allowed foreign corporations to buy
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It also eliminates the W-9 loophole that essentially allowed foreign corporations to buy
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unlimited amounts of Missouri farmland by bypassing reporting requirements to the MO Dept of Ag.
The Senate Agriculture Committee will be hearing the bill on Monday at 2:30pm. They need to see an outpouring of support for this good bill.
Please call and email today!
The Senate Agriculture Committee will be hearing the bill on Monday at 2:30pm. They need to see an outpouring of support for this good bill.
Please call and email today!
Members of the committee to contact:
Mike Bernskoetter
(573) 751-2076
mike.bernskoetter@senate.mo.gov
Justin Brown
(573) 751-5713
justin.brown@senate.mo.gov
Greg Razer
(573) 751-6607
greg.razer@senate.mo.gov
Jason Bean
(573) 751-4843
jason.bean@senate.mo.gov
Mike Bernskoetter
(573) 751-2076
mike.bernskoetter@senate.mo.gov
Justin Brown
(573) 751-5713
justin.brown@senate.mo.gov
Greg Razer
(573) 751-6607
greg.razer@senate.mo.gov
Jason Bean
(573) 751-4843
jason.bean@senate.mo.gov
Barbara Washington
(573) 751-3158
barbara.washington@senate.mo.gov
Sandy Crawford
(573) 751-8793
sandy.crawford@senate.mo.gov
(573) 751-3158
barbara.washington@senate.mo.gov
Sandy Crawford
(573) 751-8793
sandy.crawford@senate.mo.gov
If you would like to submit written testimony in favor of the bill, please email your testimony to Sen. Beck's Chief of Staff, Lillian Williams, at lawilliams@senate.mo.gov no later than 1pm on Monday, March 1st.
Background on the foreign corporate ownership of Missouri farmland issue:
In 2013, the state legislature added language to a large agriculture omnibus bill in the last two weeks of the legislative session that opened up almost 300k acres (1%) of MO farmland to foreign corporate
In 2013, the state legislature added language to a large agriculture omnibus bill in the last two weeks of the legislative session that opened up almost 300k acres (1%) of MO farmland to foreign corporate
ownership.
Two weeks after the legislation passed, a large Chinese meatpacking conglomerate purchased Smithfield Foods (with financial assistance from the Chinese government) and instantly owned over 40k acres of MO farmland.
In 2015, the state legislature added a loophole that
Two weeks after the legislation passed, a large Chinese meatpacking conglomerate purchased Smithfield Foods (with financial assistance from the Chinese government) and instantly owned over 40k acres of MO farmland.
In 2015, the state legislature added a loophole that
allowed foreign corporations to purchase essentially unlimited Missouri farmland by allowing them to bypass reporting their purchases to the MO Dept of Agriculture which makes tracking the amount of foreign corporate MO farmland impossible.
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