To amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to establish a mandatory price reporting program for fertilizer, and for other purposes.
Establish a mandatory price reporting program for fertilizer.
Occurrences
introduced the bipartisan Fertilizer Transparency Act to increase transparency in fertilizer markets and provide farmers with better information on the price of key crop inputs. The bill would require the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a mandatory reporting program for fertilizer prices and quantities sold in the United States.
Evidence
The committee's latest posted press release is dated June 16, 2026 and concerns USDA implementation of land-grant university funding, not a fertilizer price-reporting program.
The June 10, 2026 opening statement centers on the USMCA hearing and agricultural trade, showing the committee's current agenda is elsewhere in the lookback window.
The draft bill adds "Mandatory reporting of dairy product processing costs" and, for fertilizer, only authorizes research grants "to improve fertilizer use efficiency".
Assessments
There is no evidence here that a mandatory fertilizer price-reporting program was enacted or formally established. The strongest legislative evidence points the other way: the posted 2026 farm-bill text uses mandatory reporting for dairy processing costs, while fertilizer provisions are limited to research and efficiency grants, which does not satisfy the promise. Recent House Agriculture Committee activity also shows no visible delivered outcome on fertilizer price reporting. Because Johnson is still in office and the record shows some policy-related legislative effort but not a completed outcome or a clearly final defeat, the best judgment is unresolved rather than delivered or never.