S. 2808: Fertilizer Research Act of 2025

This bill, titled the Fertilizer Research Act of 2025, is designed to require the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare and publish a comprehensive report on the fertilizer industry in the United States within one year of the bill's enactment. The report will cover several key areas regarding the production, pricing, importation, and impact of fertilizers on agricultural markets.

Key Components of the Report

• Impact on Prices: The report will analyze how the fertilizer industry affects the prices that farmers receive for their products.
• Market Overview: It will include a detailed description of the current size and value of the fertilizer market, comparing it to data from the past 25 years, along with trends and values of different fertilizer types.
• Pricing Patterns: The document will delve into pricing trends for fertilizers over the last quarter-century.
• Import Information: A comprehensive list of fertilizers imported into the U.S., the quantities, and the foreign and domestic companies involved will be provided, along with countries from which fertilizers are imported. It will also examine how antidumping and countervailing duties affect retail prices.
• Supply Chain Analysis: The report will review the fertilizer supply chain at various levels — manufacturing, distribution, and retail — while considering transportation and logistics, including disruptions caused by natural disasters.
• Industry Concentration: An evaluation of the concentration within the U.S. fertilizer industry will be made, assessing any anticompetitive effects resulting from this concentration.
• Emerging Technologies: The report will compare new fertilizers and technologies with conventional options, evaluating their efficiency and crop yield impacts.
• Regulatory Environment: There will be an assessment of U.S. regulations affecting fertilizer production and distribution, focusing on any barriers these regulations may pose to domestic operations.
• Price Transparency: The report will critique the current transparency of public price reporting on fertilizers and explore the potential need for enhanced reporting mechanisms, including recommendations for Congress on the establishment of such mechanisms.
• Future Growth and Risks: It will project the growth of the fertilizer market along with associated economic and political risks linked to that growth.

Confidentiality Clause

The report will not contain any confidential business information to ensure transparency and public accessibility of the findings.

Relevant Companies

• NTR: Nutrien Ltd. may have its business impacted due to changes in pricing mechanisms and transparency requirements if this bill passes.
• CF: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. could experience regulatory impacts as the report analyzes the supply chain and pricing structures within the industry.
• <IAF: International Agricultural Products may find its import/export strategies evaluated in the context of importation data required by the bill.