JEFFERSON CITY — Family farmers packed a House hearing room to testify in favor of two bills banning foreign ownership of agricultural land, at one point unspooling three rolls of signatures on a petition supporting the bill across the hearing room and out the door.

The bills would reverse the legislature’s 2013 move to allow up to 1 percent of Missouri’s agricultural land to be foreign-owned. Foreign companies and individuals would be allowed to keep their land, but would not be able to sell to another foreign entity.