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Major tracked eminent-domain cases tied directly to active food-producing farmland.
Flagship Platform Priority
This is happening everywhere.
American Agricultural Sovereignty
Protect the land that feeds this country, stop eminent domain abuse against working farms, and rebuild food sovereignty around family farmers instead of extractive capital.
It is not just one farm. It is a national pattern of eminent domain abuse reaching across the agricultural Midwest, the Gulf Coast, the rural South, and beyond.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
180 days
Mandatory notice period proposed before any physical alteration of taken agricultural land.
2,000 acres
Agricultural land the executive order says America loses every day.
Overview
Jeff Melin's farm in Georgia is not an isolated story. The agricultural source documents gathered by this campaign describe a broader national pattern: active food-producing land is being seized, concentrated, flipped, or converted while the public is told it is development, progress, or inevitability.
The National Pattern
The campaign's agricultural materials track a repeated structure: a private commercial interest wants land, the government supplies eminent-domain power or permissive policy, and the family on the land is left with less power, less time, and often less than true value.
The cases stretch from carbon-capture corridors in Iowa, South Dakota, and Louisiana to airport expansion in Georgia and Texas, to long-held Black family land in Georgia, to cattle-farm displacement in New York. Different states. Same basic mechanism.
- Active farmland is being treated as disposable infrastructure for private projects.
- Generational landholders are often forced into compressed timelines and unequal negotiations.
- Federal approvals, grants, or tax incentives frequently sit somewhere behind the project structure.
- Food-producing land loss is being tolerated as if it were a minor side effect instead of a sovereignty issue.
Platform Response
What the Agricultural Sovereignty Platform Does
End farmland capture by extractive capital
Ban private-equity control of food-producing farmland and require divestiture back toward farming families, nearby family farmers, or state land trusts.
Block foreign state-linked control
Treat foreign state-linked ownership of agricultural land as a national food-security vulnerability while distinguishing it from private foreign investment that is responsibly disclosed.
Restore just compensation and due process
Require independent federal appraisal, real market-rate compensation, meaningful notice, agricultural-impact review, and federal enforcement when farmland is targeted.
Set one national food standard
Move toward a Top Tier Organic Production and Care standard that governs soil health, animal welfare, input transparency, and public-food integrity.
Publish Stack
Primary Documents
These pages turn the agricultural source set into searchable, indexable public documents while keeping the PDFs available as source material.
Source Set
Source PDFs
The supporting agricultural packet includes the congressional letter, Jeff Melin correspondence, foreign state-linked acquisition framework, policy position paper, and the three primary publish documents below.
Agricultural land is not just acreage. It is production capacity, local memory, family continuity, and national resilience. This platform treats it that way.