A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would require USDA to study competition and trends in the fertilizer market. Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa says the legislation would require USDA to publish a report on the fertilizer industry, “to determine what’s influenced the final farm gate price, and obviously, if that shows that there’s antitrust violations, collusion, and all of that sort of stuff that would be a basis for us taking action.”
Democrat Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin tells Brownfield Washington cannot come up with policy answers until the market research is done.
