Sec. 5. Farmland ownership data collection
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The Secretary shall collect and, not less frequently than once every 5 years report, data and analysis on farmland ownership, tenure, transition, and entry of beginning farmers and ranchers (as defined in section 343(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act ( 7 U.S.C. 1991(a) )) and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers (as defined in section 2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 2279(e) )). In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall, at a minimum— collect and distribute comprehensive reporting of trends in farmland ownership, tenure, transition, barriers to entry, profitability, and viability of beginning farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; develop surveys and report statistical and economic analysis on farmland ownership, tenure, transition, barriers to entry, profitability, and viability of beginning farmers and ranchers, including a regular follow-on survey to each Census of Agriculture with results of the follow-on survey made public not later than 3 years after the previous Census of Agriculture; and require the National Agricultural Statistics Service— to include in the Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land survey questions relating to— the extent to which non-farming landowners are purchasing and holding onto farmland for the sole purpose of real estate investment; the impact of these farmland ownership trends on the successful entry and viability of beginning farmers and ranchers and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers; the extent to which farm and ranch land with undivided interests and no administrative authority identified have farms or ranches operating on that land; and the impact of land tenure patterns, categorized by— race, gender, and ethnicity; and region; and to include in the report of each Tenure, Ownership, and Transition of Agricultural Land survey the results of the questions under subparagraph (A).
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