Farmers get fertilizer price data; big suppliers must disclose weekly.

What it does

This bill requires fertilizer manufacturers and wholesalers to report their prices and sales volumes to the U.S. Department of Agriculture weekly, with the USDA publishing aggregated data to farmers and the public. Cooperatives and retail-only sellers are exempt from mandatory reporting but may report voluntarily. The bill aims to give farmers better price information to make smarter purchasing decisions and promote competition in the fertilizer market.

Why we flagged it

The bill's core mechanism is a mandatory price-reporting regime designed to reduce information asymmetry in fertilizer markets and strengthen farmer bargaining power. It is a transparency and competition measure, not a subsidy, tax carve-out, or deregulation.

What the text implies

• Cooperatives are fully exempt from mandatory reporting, which may allow them to avoid disclosure while competing against non-cooperative wholesalers—potentially creating a competitive advantage for cooperative-structured entities.
• The USDA's confidentiality aggregation rules (subsection f(2)) are not specified in detail; if aggregation thresholds are too high, regional or product-specific pricing may remain opaque despite the mandate.
• Weekly reporting and publication cycles may lag actual market conditions, limiting the real-time utility of the data for farmers making time-sensitive purchasing decisions.
• The bill does not establish penalties or enforcement mechanisms for non-compliance with mandatory reporting, potentially weakening the mandate's effectiveness.

Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.

Who it affects

Farmers—the primary citizens affected—gain access to timely, aggregated price data that was previously opaque, enabling more informed purchasing and stronger negotiating positions against large suppliers. The mandatory reporting burden falls on manufacturers and wholesalers (not farmers), and confidentiality protections prevent disclosure of individual company data.

Who stands to gain

• farmers (via improved price transparency and negotiating leverage)
• agricultural cooperatives (exempt from mandatory reporting while competitors must disclose)

Named in the bill

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service, Fertilizer manufacturers, Fertilizer wholesalers, Agricultural cooperatives, Farmers, Capper-Volstead Act, Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, Cooperative Marketing Act, Internal Revenue Code Section 521, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act Section 5

Where it stands

16 cosponsors: 8 Democrats, 8 Republicans.

• Mar 26, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Mar 26, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

4 lobbying clients named this bill on 5 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $3,670,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 20 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.

More lobbying clients named this bill than 72% of bills with at least one filing.

Dusty Johnson, the sponsor, reported $325,500 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.

• Koch Government Affairs, LLC — $2,760,000 on 1 filing
• Agricultural Retailers Association — $420,000 on 2 filings
• Cf Industries Inc — $410,000 on 1 filing
• Koch Government Affairs, LLC — $80,000 on 1 filing

Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 25, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.