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S. 2808: Fertilizer Research Act of 2025

119th Congress · introduced 2025-09-16 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Fertilizer Research Act of 2025

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Fertilizer Research Act of 2025 This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to publish on the department's website a report on the U.S. fertilizer industry. Among other things, the report must include a description of the impacts on the fertilizer industry that influence the prices that agricultural producers receive for their products; a description of the size and value of the U.S. fertilizer market over the previous 25 years; a description of the importation of fertilizer into the United States and the impacts that antidumping and countervailing duties have on retail fertilizer prices; a study of market concentration of the U.S. fertilizer industry; an assessment of the regulatory environment governing fertilizer production, distribution, and usage; and a description of the extent to which current public price reporting of fertilizer is transparent for market participants and recommendations on whether further reporting is needed.

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Fertilizer Research Act of 2025

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Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] · 8 cosponsors

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Record fed-us-cong119-s2808 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills