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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6192 
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a report on the fertilizer 
industry, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 20, 2025 
Mrs. HINSON (for herself, Ms. BUDZINSKI, Mr. FEENSTRA, Ms. PEREZ, and 
Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Agriculture 
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 Representa-
tives 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 Agri-
culture, in consultation with the Administrator of the Eco-
nomic Research Service, shall publish on the website of 
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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 im-
ported into the United States, including the 
quantity of each type of fertilizer imported; 
(B) a list of foreign companies and domes-
tic companies that import into the United 
States fertilizer, including the quantity of fer-
tilizer imported by each company; 
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(C) a list of the countries from which fer-
tilizer is imported into the United States; and 
(D) a description of the impacts that anti-
dumping duties and countervailing duties have 
on prices of fertilizer paid at the retail level; 
(5) an overview of the manufacturing level, dis-
tribution 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 im-
pacts; 
(7) a description of the prices, crop-use effi-
ciencies, and crop yields of emerging fertilizers and 
fertilizer technologies, including biological fertilizers 
and other recently developed tools, compared to con-
ventional fertilizers and fertilizer technologies; 
(8) an assessment of the regulatory environ-
ment governing fertilizer production, distribution, 
and usage, including a description of areas in which 
regulatory burden is hampering domestic production, 
distribution, and usage of fertilizer; 
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(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 trans-
parency 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 in-
dustry 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 antici-
pated economic and political risks to fertilizer pro-
duction as a result of that growth. 
(b) CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.—The report pub-
lished under subsection (a) shall not include any confiden-
tial business information. 
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