USDA Selects Eight Fertilizer Manufacturing Projects: About $573 Million in Proposed Federal Funding Toward More Than $1.34 Billion in Total Investment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on October 22 that Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins had selected eight fertilizer manufacturing projects to receive funding through USDA's Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-Term Domestic Supply (FIELDS) Program. USDA said Vance made the announcement in Nebraska that day.
The eight selected projects represent more than $1.34 billion in total proposed investment, including approximately $573 million in proposed USDA funding, to strengthen domestic fertilizer manufacturing, reduce America's dependence on foreign suppliers, and increase long-term fertilizer availability for American farmers, USDA said. Under President Donald J. Trump, USDA launched the $500 million FIELDS Program; the Administration is also making additional funding available recovered from failed projects under the previous Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP), redirecting taxpayer resources toward projects with stronger financial viability, private-sector investment, and measurable manufacturing outcomes.
"I was proud to be in Nebraska today to announce 1.3 billion dollars of investment in domestic fertilizer manufacturing right here in the United States," said Vice President JD Vance. "1.87 million farmers who are farming over 8.74 million acres all across the United States of America are going to have fertilizer at lower costs that is made by Americans." Secretary Brooke L. Rollins said: "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." She said USDA is taking decisive action to rebuild America's fertilizer manufacturing base and bring critical production back to American soil.
USDA said America's fertilizer industry has become increasingly consolidated: four companies control approximately 77% of North American nitrogen fertilizer production capacity, two companies account for more than 90% of phosphate production capacity, and two companies produce approximately 90% of North America's potash. USDA economic analysis estimates that the additional production could reduce nitrogen fertilizer prices by 4.4% and potash prices by 5.3%, while increasing domestic nitrogen production by 3.7% and potash production by nearly 40% once the projects are operational. The projects are expected to support approximately 1.08 million tons of annual domestic fertilizer production and capacity, covering nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur fertilizers.
The eight projects are: 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 (Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Nebraska, Illinois, and South Dakota), expected to produce approximately 130,000 tons of anhydrous ammonia annually; Peace Valley in Florida, approximately $19.9 million toward a $50.6 million project to expand fertilizer manufacturing in Bartow, expected to produce approximately 250,000 tons annually; PCI Nitrogen in Texas and Oregon, approximately $100 million toward a $200 million project to modernize facilities in Pasadena, Texas, and St. Helens, Oregon, expected to support approximately 148,280 tons of annual production; Intrepid Potash in New Mexico, approximately $139 million toward a $265 million project to construct a sulfate of potash facility near Carlsbad, expected to produce approximately 220,000 tons annually; AdvanSix in Virginia, approximately $47.4 million toward a $98.1 million project to modernize and expand an ammonia facility in Hopewell, expected to produce approximately 84,000 tons of anhydrous ammonia annually; SUL4R-PLUS Illinois, approximately $34.9 million toward a $69.7 million project to expand a sulfur fertilizer facility in Marissa, expected to support approximately 100,000 tons annually; True Organic Products in California, Oregon, and Arizona, approximately $15.3 million toward a $30.6 million project to expand facilities in Helm, California; Boardman, Oregon; and Arlington, Arizona, expected to support approximately 142,805 tons annually using agricultural byproducts; and Agriculture Project Holdco in Kansas and Indiana, approximately $116.9 million toward a $360 million project to develop two facilities in Lewis, Kansas, and Fair Oaks, Indiana, converting dairy manure into approximately 4,100 tons of liquid ammonium nitrate fertilizer annually.
USDA said the FIELDS Program is administered by USDA Rural Development's Rural Business-Cooperative Service using Commodity Credit Corporation authorities, and that additional information is available through USDA Rural Development.
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：一家尿素化肥厂的工艺装置（资料图）。照片：Mar11，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / File photo: process plant of a urea fertilizer factory. Photo by Mar11, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
