119-s2808

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2808 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2808

 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a report on the 
 fertilizer industry, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 16, 2025

 Mr. Grassley (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, Ms. Ernst, and Mr. Warnock) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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 A BILL

 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a report on the 
 fertilizer industry, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Fertilizer Research Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FERTILIZER INDUSTRY REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the 
Administrator of the Economic Research Service, shall publish on the 
website of the Department of Agriculture a report on the United States 
fertilizer industry, including--

    (1) a description of the impacts on the fertilizer industry 
 that influence the prices that agricultural producers receive 
 for their agricultural products at the location of the farm;

    (2) a description of the current size and value, and the 
 size and value over the previous 25 years, of the United States 
 fertilizer market, including--
        (A) any trends over the previous 25 years; and
        (B) such sizes and values by each type of 
 fertilizer;

    (3) a description of any patterns in pricing of fertilizer 
 over the previous 25 years;

    (4) a description of the importation of fertilizer into the 
 United States, including--
        (A) a list of types of fertilizer that are imported 
 into the United States, including the quantity of each 
 type of fertilizer imported;
        (B) a list of foreign companies and domestic 
 companies that import into the United States 
 fertilizer, including the quantity of fertilizer 
 imported by each company;
            (C) a list of the countries from which fertilizer 
 is imported into the United States; and
            (D) a description of the impacts that antidumping 
 duties and countervailing duties have on prices of 
 fertilizer paid at the retail level;

    (5) an overview of the manufacturing level, distribution 
 channels, and retail level of the fertilizer supply chain, 
 including transportation, logistics, and supply chain 
 disruptions from natural disasters;

    (6) a study of the concentration of the United States 
 fertilizer industry in United States fertilizer companies, 
 including an evaluation of the extent to which concentration 
 has had any anticompetitive impacts;

    (7) a description of the prices, crop-use efficiencies, and 
 crop yields of emerging fertilizers and fertilizer 
 technologies, including biological fertilizers and other 
 recently developed tools, compared to conventional fertilizers 
 and fertilizer technologies;

    (8) an assessment of the regulatory environment governing 
 fertilizer production, distribution, and usage, including a 
 description of areas in which regulatory burden is hampering 
 domestic production, distribution, and usage of fertilizer;

    (9) a description of the extent to which current public 
 price reporting of fertilizer is transparent for market 
 participants and the extent to which further public price 
 reporting is needed to achieve transparency for market 
 participants, including--
        (A) an evaluation of the potential for the 
 Secretary of Agriculture to establish a fertilizer 
 reporting mechanism in which the fertilizer industry is 
 required to report fertilizer prices at multiple levels 
 of the supply chain on a daily, weekly, or monthly 
 basis; and
        (B) a recommendation to Congress on whether a 
 reporting mechanism described in subparagraph
        (A) should be established; and

    (10) a description of the projected growth of the United 
 States fertilizer market and the anticipated economic and 
 political risks to fertilizer production as a result of that 
 growth.

    (b) Confidential Information.--The report published under 
subsection

    (a) shall not include any confidential business information.
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