USDA Efforts to Boost Fertilizer Production

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins recently announced a few major steps toward strengthening American fertilizer production. Those included wrapping up permitting of the world’s largest ammonia plant in Louisiana over the course of the next 45 days, as well as taking steps to increase transparency to farmers. Secretary Rollins also said they are fixing the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program and working directly with awardees to move high impact projects forward.

Rollins… “We'll be assisting the higher impact awardees with project completion. For example, an eighty million dollar investment in Washington State under this program that was stalled was projected to produce seven hundred thousand tons annually of hydrogen ammonia fertilizer that will support over two hundred jobs. We expect construction to begin this year. Another example, because these FPEP projects were all over from small to big, the small ones are important too, as we talk about deconsolidating and deregulating and having smaller alongside larger. A three point nine million dollar project in Iowa will host a ribbon cutting this summer specifically to work to expand domestic organic fertilizer production capacity through large scale composting and nutrient processing.”

Secretary Rollins called this “an important step toward reshoring fertilizer production and putting American agriculture first again.”