S. 5526
Agricultural Act of 2026
Sponsor: John Boozman · 0 cosponsors
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I Commodities
A Commodity Policy
B Dairy
C Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance
D Administration
II Conservation
A Conservation Reserve Program
B Environmental Quality Incentives Program
C Conservation Stewardship Program
D Funding and administration
E Agricultural Conservation Easement Program
F Regional Conservation Partnership Program
G Forest Conservation Easement Program
H Other Conservation programs
III Trade
A Food for Peace Act
B Agricultural Trade Act of 1978
C Other agricultural trade laws
D Reports
IV Nutrition
A Supplemental nutrition assistance program
B Commodity distribution programs
C Miscellaneous
V Credit
A Farm Credit System
B Farm ownership and operating loans
C Administrative provisions
VI Rural Development
A Rural Electrification Act of 1936
I Rural broadband access
II Additional amendments
B Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act
C Miscellaneous
I Rural care economy
II Other miscellaneous provisions
VII Research, Extension, and Related Matters
A National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977
B Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
C Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998
D Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
I Agricultural security
II Miscellaneous provisions
E Other Matters
VIII Forestry
A Forest data modernization
B Forest health and management
I Forest Service management
II State and private partnerships
III Timber innovation
C Forest conservation
D Land designations
E White oak resilience
F Other matters
IX Energy
X Horticulture
A Horticulture marketing and information
B Regulatory reform
XI Crop insurance
XII Miscellaneous
A Livestock
B National security
C Fertilizer
(a) In general. Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Economic Research Service, shall publish on the website of the Department a report on the United States fertilizer industry, including—
(1) a description of the impacts on the fertilizer industry that influence the prices that agricultural producers receive for their agricultural products at the location of the farm;
(2) a description of the current size and value, and the size and value over the previous 25 years, of the United States fertilizer market, including—
(A) any trends over the previous 25 years; and
(B) such sizes and values by each type of fertilizer;
(3) a description of any patterns in pricing of fertilizer over the previous 25 years;
(4) a description of the importation of fertilizer into the United States, including—
(A) a list of types of fertilizer that are imported into the United States, including the quantity of each type of fertilizer imported;
(B) a list of foreign companies and domestic companies that import into the United States fertilizer, including the quantity of fertilizer imported by each company;
(C) a list of the countries from which fertilizer is imported into the United States; and
(D) a description of the impacts that antidumping duties and countervailing duties have on prices of fertilizer paid at the retail level;
(5) an overview of the manufacturing level, distribution channels, and retail level of the fertilizer supply chain, including transportation, logistics, and supply chain disruptions from natural disasters;
(6) a study of the concentration of the United States fertilizer industry in United States fertilizer companies, including an evaluation of the extent to which concentration has had any anticompetitive impacts;
(7) a description of the prices, crop-use efficiencies, and crop yields of emerging fertilizers and fertilizer technologies, including biological fertilizers and other recently developed tools, compared to conventional fertilizers and fertilizer technologies;
(8) an assessment of the regulatory environment governing fertilizer production, distribution, and usage, including a description of areas in which regulatory burden is hampering domestic production, distribution, and usage of fertilizer;
(9) a description of the extent to which current public price reporting of fertilizer is transparent for market participants and the extent to which further public price reporting is needed to achieve transparency for market participants, including—
(A) an evaluation of the potential for the Secretary to establish a fertilizer reporting mechanism in which the fertilizer industry is required to report fertilizer prices at multiple levels of the supply chain on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis; and
(B) a recommendation to Congress on whether a reporting mechanism described in subparagraph (A) should be established; and
(10) a description of the projected growth of the United States fertilizer market and the anticipated economic and political risks to fertilizer production as a result of that growth.
(b) Confidential information. The report published under subsection (a) shall not include any confidential business information.
D United States grain standards reauthorization
E Year-Round E15 and RFS reform
F Other miscellaneous provisions