Senate Agriculture Committee members Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, are urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve its process for the electronic submission and retention of foreign-owned farmland disclosures. The bi-partisan letter, signed by a bevy of other senators, follows alleged inaccuracies posted online by the Farm Service Agency, pursuant to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.
The senators wrote to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, “The current practice of manual data entry, including the re-typing of paper-filed reports into FSA systems, can lead to the publication of problematic and inaccurate information,”