Grassley Presses for Answers on High Fertilizer Prices, Calls for Increased Transparency to Drive Down Costs

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong family farmer and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, pressed for answers on the high cost of fertilizer at a committee hearing today.

Grassley repeated his call for the Trump administration to remove the Biden Phosphate Duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco that are driving up costs for family farmers. Grassley spoke about the need to increase transparency on the market factors driving the high cost of fertilizer, including through his Fertilizer Research Act. In his response to Grassley’s question, South Dakota Corn Growers President Trent Kubik endorsed Grassley’s Fertilizer Research Act.