West of Mpls MN about 50 miles on Hwy 12 | All a person has to do is apply...I wonder if Nutrien will sell me the local plant they recently shut down that's sitting abandoned and growing up into weeds?
https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/business-programs/fertiliz...
Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-term Domestic Supply
Application Window:
Open
Program Application Period:
July 1, 2026, to August 17, 2026
What does this program do?
The Fertilizer Investment & Expansion for Long-term Domestic Supply (FIELDS) Program is intended to expand, or bring into operation new, independent domestic fertilizer production capacity in order to provide agricultural producers with additional domestic fertilizer options and strengthen the U. S. fertilizer supply chain. Program funding is intended to support projects that significantly increase domestic process manufacturing capacity and fertilizer availability, including expansions or upgrades of existing facilities, construction of new domestic production facility, shovel-ready projects capable of rapidly increasing domestic supply, and on-site fertilizer terminals and transportation infrastructure that improve supply chain efficiency.
Who may apply?
Entities are eligible regardless of legal structure and may include Tribes, Tribal Entities, Alaska Native Corporations, for-profit entities, corporations, non-profit entities, producer-owned cooperatives and corporations, certified benefit corporations, and state or local government entities. Private entities must be independently owned and operated.
Are there other requirements?
Eligible applicants must:
• Operate within the U.S. and its territories and propose projects that are physically located within the U.S. and its territories ; and
• Be Domestically Owned; and
• Process manufacture or plan to process manufacture in accordance with all federal, state, Tribal and local regulations governing fertilizer process manufacturing; and
• Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) and must maintain annual SAM registration while an application is active and through the term of an award.
• Additionally, eligible applicants, including affiliates of the eligible applicant, must not hold a market share in production greater than or equal to the entity that holds the fourth largest share of that market for any of the following nutrients or components: nitrogen, sulfur, phosphate, potash, or any combination thereof.
• Multiple applications from affiliated applicant entities (with ‘‘affiliation’’ defined by the Small Business Administration regulation 13 CFR 121.103, or successor regulation) are not permitted.
Multiple projects owned by the same applicant entity should be combined into one application before submission. |
Opportunity to lower fertilizer inputs...
