Farmland for Farmers Act Reintroduced to Stop Corporate Farmland Grabs

WASHINGTON, DC, April 28, 2026 – The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) enthusiastically supports the bicameral Farmland for Farmers Act (S.4391 / H.R.8531), reintroduced yesterday by Senators Cory Booker (NJ) and Bernie Sanders (VT), and Representatives Jill Tokuda (HI-02), Jim McGovern (MA-2), and Shri Thanedar (MI-13). This pivotal legislation would curtail the alarming rising trend of investment firms, pension funds, and other multinational corporations snatching up farmland across the US, often using shady and exploitative practices against food producers and local communities to do so. More than 80 national, state, and local organizations and farmer advocacy groups have endorsed the bill.

“Farmers — especially farmers of color and young and beginning farmers — across the US have seen a crisis involving institutional and corporate buyouts, exacerbating unfair land access and prices,” said Tiffany Bellfield El-Amin, Co-President of NFFC and Executive Director of Kentucky Black Farmers Association. “They prey on struggling farmers and their communities to exploit the land for uses that neither serve nor feed the community, nor employ its residents. Resources are limited and often gatekept due to these corporate buyouts — we must prevent institutional buyers from using resources that farmers rely on for their livelihoods. The Farmland for Farmers Act does more than protect access to farmland; it protects land prices and sustainability which farmers need to continue feeding our families and communities.”