Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, announced the selection of eight fertilizer manufacturing projects to receive funding through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-Term Domestic Supply (FIELDS) Program.
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.
Under President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, USDA launched the $500 million FIELDS Program to expand domestic fertilizer manufacturing and address one of the most significant supply chain vulnerabilities facing American agriculture. The Administration is also making additional funding available recovered from failed projects under the Biden Administration’s 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 J.D. Vance. “1.87 million farmers who are farming over 874 million acres all across the United States of America are going to have fertilizer at lower costs that is made by Americans.”
Source : usda.gov