Fertilizer Research Act of 2025
Latest action · Sep 16, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 16, 2025
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Fertilizer Research Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to publish on the department's website a report on the U.S. fertilizer industry. Among other things, the report must include
- a description of the impacts on the fertilizer industry that influence the prices that agricultural producers receive for their products;
- a description of the size and value of the U.S. fertilizer market over the previous 25 years;
- a description of the importation of fertilizer into the United States and the impacts that antidumping and countervailing duties have on retail fertilizer prices;
- a study of market concentration of the U.S. fertilizer industry;
- an assessment of the regulatory environment governing fertilizer production, distribution, and usage; and
- a description of the extent to which current public price reporting of fertilizer is transparent for market participants and recommendations on whether further reporting is needed.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 16, 2025 to Jun 22, 2026; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IA | Joni Ernst | Original | Sep 16, 2025 |
| D-GA | Raphael G. Warnock | Original | Sep 16, 2025 |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Original | Sep 16, 2025 |
| R-MS | Cindy Hyde-Smith | Sep 30, 2025 | |
| R-KS | Roger Marshall | Mar 20, 2026 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Apr 29, 2026 | |
| R-NC | Ted Budd | Apr 29, 2026 | |
| R-OH | Jon Husted | Jun 22, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee | Referred Sep 16, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2025Introduced in Senate
- Sep 16, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S8493 | Chuck Grassley R-IA | Dec 4, 2025 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S6806 | Chuck Grassley R-IA | Sep 29, 2025 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R49337 | Fertilizer Transportation: In Brief | Report | Sep 4, 2026 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 6192 | Fertilizer Research Act of 2025 | Identical bill | Jan 13, 2026 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish a report on the fertilizer industry, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Fertilizer Research Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2025Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
