U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, alongside U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, have announced the next pillar of her Make Agriculture Great Again initiative: USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan. This plan elevates American agriculture as a key element of the nation’s national security, addressing threats from foreign adversaries, and strengthening the resilience of our nation’s food and agricultural systems.
“Farm security is national security, and it is imperative that we start recognizing this before it is too late,” said U.S. Senator from Kansas, Dr. Roger Marshall. “President Trump understands this, and I applaud the work his administration has done to partner with Kansas agriculture and the biodefense industry to ensure that plant and animal diseases do not compromise our food supply.”
"We feed the world. We lead the world. And we’ll never let foreign adversaries control our land, our labs, or our livelihoods," said Secretary Rollins. "This Action Plan puts America’s farmers, families, and future first—exactly where they belong. Under President Trump’s leadership, American agriculture will be strong, secure, and resilient. He will never stop fighting for our farmers and our ranchers.”
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice charged foreign nationals, including a Chinese Communist Party member, with smuggling a noxious fungus into the United States—a potential agroterrorism weapon responsible for billions in global crop losses. The USDA says the scheme involved a U.S. research lab and highlighted a disturbing trend: America’s enemies are playing the long game—infiltrating our research, buying up our farmland, stealing our technology, and launching cyberattacks on our food systems. These actions expose strategic vulnerabilities in America’s food and agriculture supply chain.
The USDA says protecting the homeland begins with protecting farmland, and the National Farm Security Action Plan puts American farmers and ranchers first by safeguarding our food supply, strengthening critical infrastructure, and defending U.S. agricultural innovation from foreign adversaries.
The National Farm Security Action Plan takes aggressive action across seven critical areas.
1. Secure and Protect American Farmland – Address U.S. foreign farmland ownership from adversaries head on. Total transparency. Tougher penalties.
2. Enhance Agricultural Supply Chain Resilience – Refocus domestic investment into key manufacturing sectors and identify non-adversarial partners to work with when domestic production is not available. Plan for contingencies.
3. Protect U.S. Nutrition Safety Net from Fraud and Foreign Exploitation – Billions have been stolen by foreign crime rings. That ends now.
4. Defend Agricultural Research and Innovation – No more sweetheart deals or secret pacts with hostile nations. American ideas stay in America.
5. Put America First in Every USDA Program – From farm loans to food safety, every program will reflect the America First agenda.
6. Safeguard Plant and Animal Health – Crack down on bio-threats before they ever reach our soil.
7. Protect Critical Infrastructure – Farms, food, and supply chains are national security assets—and will be treated as such.
This National Farm Security Action Plan will serve as the launch point for the USDA to work in further unison with governors, state legislators, and federal partners to further integrate agriculture into the broader national security efforts over the coming months and years, reaffirming the critical nature of agriculture and the need for a cross governmental approach. The USDA says defending access to American abundance and preserving the American experiment is the essence of agriculture security - and why farm security is national security.