Foreign investors flock to U. S. farmlands.

The article reports on the increasing number of foreign investors in U.S. farmlands in March 1978. It says that close to 800 million U.S. dollars were invested by foreigners in farmland in 1977 according to the private consulting firm European Investment Research Center. According to the author, the buying interest from Japan, Latin America and Western Europe is also rising. The economic trends in U.S. agriculture and the reaction of U.S. farmers to the continuing wave of investment in U.S. farmland are also discussed.