How much US land is owned by foreigners? Foreign persons held an interest in nearly 37.6 million acres of U.S. farmland as of December 31, 2020. This is 2.9 percent of all privately owned agricultural land and 1.7 percent of all land in the United States. How much US land is owned by China? The latest USDA data shows that China owns over 191,000 acres of US land, but that was before...