US government to invest over $570 million in fertilizer manufacturing

Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the selection of eight fertilizer manufacturing projects to receive funding through the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The eight selected projects represent more than $1.34 billion in total proposed investment, including approximately $573 million in proposed federal funding, to strengthen domestic fertilizer manufacturing in the US. 

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The grants will be allocated through the Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-Term Domestic Supply (FIELDS) Program, which the Trump Administration launched to expand domestic manufacturing and address what they call “one of the most significant supply chain vulnerabilities facing American agriculture.” 

“Farm security is national security. America cannot afford to depend on foreign nations for the fertilizer needed to grow our food and feed our families,” said Secretary Brooke L. Rollins. “We are taking decisive action to rebuild America’s fertilizer manufacturing base and bring critical production back to American soil.”

Fertilizer manufacturing projects selected by the USDA

The projects will support new and expanded manufacturing capacity for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur across the United States. These investments are expected to support approximately 1.08 million tons of annual domestic fertilizer production and capacity across the selected projects.

The eight projects selected to move forward in the FIELDS funding process include:

• TalusAg: Selected for approximately $99.8 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $270.2 million project to deploy 20 modular ammonia manufacturing units across 11 locations in seven states. 
  
• Peace Valley: Selected for approximately $19.9 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $50.6 million project to expand manufacturing in Bartow, Florida.  
• PCI Nitrogen: Selected for approximately $100 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $200 million project to modernize manufacturing facilities in Pasadena, Texas, and St. Helens, Oregon.  
• Intrepid Potash: Selected for approximately $139 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $265 million project to construct a sulfate of potash manufacturing facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico.  

  

• AdvanSix: Selected for approximately $47.4 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $98.1 million project to modernize and expand an existing ammonia manufacturing facility in Hopewell, Virginia.  
• SUL4R-PLUS Illinois: Selected for approximately $34.9 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $69.7 million project to expand an existing sulfur manufacturing facility in Marissa, Illinois. 
  
• True Organic Products: Selected for approximately $15.3 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $30.6 million project to expand manufacturing at facilities 
• Agriculture Project Holdco: Selected for approximately $116.9 million in proposed USDA funding toward a $360 million project to develop two fertilizer manufacturing facilities in Lewis, Kansas, and Fair Oaks, Indiana. 

The FIELDS Program is administered by USDA Rural Development’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service using Commodity Credit Corporation authorities.

*Main image is referential from Shutterstock. 

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