As of three years ago, the Chinese had already accumulated 192,000 acres of U.S. farmland.  We have not been given a more recent figure than that, but what we do know is that the Chinese spent a whopping 6.1 billion dollars on realestate in the United States during one recent twelve month period. The number of farms in the U.S. has been steadily shrinking. In 1900, there were 5.7 million farms in the United States. Today, there are only about 2 million farms in the United States even though our population is now much larger.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This is a trend that should deeply disturb all of us. Allowing the Chinese, gigantic corporate behemoths and eccentric billionaires such as Bill Gates to buy up our farmland is a really bad idea, but so far very few of our polititions seem interested in stopping them. Food supply, pharmaceutical supply, those are all that's all part of national security. Why would we allow this to happen? Nobody else should be allowed to purchase our farmland. Other countries have such laws, and we should too.