Texas News Foreign Investors Stage an Agricultural Land Grab in Texas KWBU | By Texas Standard Published July 18, 2017 at 2:17 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:27 Calsidyrose/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Cotton fields off Highway 87 near Lubbock. Investors from Canada, China and elsewhere have bought some 1.7 million acres of agricultrual land in Texas during the past 10 years.