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Requires weekly USDA reporting of categorized fertilizer price and quantity data from manufacturers and wholesalers, with cooperative exemptions and domestic/foreign sourcing breakdowns.
Official title: To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to establish a mandatory price reporting program for fertilizer, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 26, 2026 by Dustin Johnson · Last progress March 26, 2026
The bill increases fertilizer market transparency and gives farmers and policymakers timely data to plan and respond, but it imposes new reporting costs, creates risks of exposing sensitive commercial information, and leaves retail reporting gaps due to exemptions for cooperatives and some retailers.
Farmers and other fertilizer buyers will receive weekly public price and quantity data for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and fertilizer products, enabling better purchase planning, budgeting, and short-term decision-making.
Retailers, market participants, and small businesses will gain greater market transparency, which can promote competition and reduce information asymmetries in fertilizer markets.
State and local governments, and university extension services will have access to a public dashboard and regional estimates to monitor input cost trends for policy, advisory, and planning purposes.
Manufacturers and wholesalers will face new weekly reporting requirements and compliance costs, increasing administrative burdens that could be passed on to buyers.
Firms and suppliers risk having commercially sensitive information exposed despite aggregation rules, which could harm competition or weaken negotiating positions for some companies.
Exempting retailers and some cooperatives from mandatory reporting will leave gaps in retail-level price data, reducing the completeness and usefulness of the public market picture for end buyers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a USDA-run fertilizer market reporting program that requires manufacturers and wholesalers to submit weekly categorized price and quantity data for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and fertilizer products so farmers and other market participants have timely market information. The law defines covered actors (manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, cooperatives and affiliates), exempts certain cooperatives, requires domestic/foreign sourcing breakdowns, and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to collect, publish, and use the data to promote informed marketing and competition.