Fertilizer availability

announcement of long term efforts to address low fertilizer supplies and increased fertilizer prices. Speaker 2: At our rural development mission, we continue to build out production through a $900 million fertilizer production expansion program, and we are now working around the clock with a lot of these dozens of these projects to bring them to fruition. Speaker 1: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins provides one example. Speaker 2: Natural fertilizer products in Ames, Iowa, is near the finish line and will be online and operational this summer, increasing their production by 36,000 tons annually. Speaker 1: The secretary at USDA headquarters, joined by other cabinet members in sharing some of those efforts, including federal funding opportunities for infrastructure construction and operation, and decreasing the time to obtain permits abroad.