H.R. 6192

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6192 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.

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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

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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 Representatives 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 Agriculture, in consultation with the 
Administrator of the Economic Research Service, shall publish on the 
website of 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 imported 
into the United States, including the quantity of each 
type of fertilizer imported;
(B) a list of foreign companies and domestic 
companies that import into the United States 
fertilizer, including the quantity of fertilizer 
imported by each company;
(C) a list of the countries from which fertilizer 
is imported into the United States; and
(D) a description of the impacts that antidumping 
duties and countervailing duties have on prices of 
fertilizer paid at the retail level;
(5) an overview of the manufacturing level, distribution 
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 impacts;
(7) a description of the prices, crop-use efficiencies, and 
crop yields of emerging fertilizers and fertilizer 
technologies, including biological fertilizers and other 
recently developed tools, compared to conventional fertilizers 
and fertilizer technologies;
(8) an assessment of the regulatory environment governing 
fertilizer production, distribution, and usage, including a 
description of areas in which regulatory burden is hampering 
domestic production, distribution, and usage of fertilizer;
(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 transparency 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 industry 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 anticipated economic and 
political risks to fertilizer production as a result of that 
growth.
(b) Confidential Information.--The report published under 
subsection (a) shall not include any confidential business information.
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