Trump’s $500m FIELDS push for U.S. fertilizer

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched the $500 million Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-Term Domestic Supply (FIELDS) Programme to expand domestic fertilizer manufacturing and reinforce the U.S. fertilizer supply chain. The scheme will fund “shovel ready, financially viable” projects that can quickly increase production of nitrogen, phosphate, potash, sulphur and other key crop nutrients, with individual awards of $15 million to $150 million.

“The FIELDS programme is a positive step toward strengthening US fertilizer production, but meaningful expansion will require sustained policy certainty and significantly more capital over many years. Large-scale fertilizer projects are measured in billions of dollars and years, not millions and months,” commented Justin Rackleff, CRU’s Americas Lead, Fertilizer Value Chain.