USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA is making domestic fertilizer production investments in nine states to increase competition, lower fertilizer costs for American farmers and reduce food costs for U.S. consumers.

USDA is awarding over $116 million through the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP) to help eight facilities expand innovative fertilizer production in California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

Funded by the Commodity Credit Corporation, the FPEP provides funding to independent business owners to help them modernize equipment, adopt new technologies, build production plants and more.

Through the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program, the USDA has invested $517 million in 76 fertilizer production facilities to expand access to domestic fertilizer options for American farmers in 34 states and Puerto Rico. These investments will increase U.S. fertilizer production by 11.8 million tons annually, creating more than 1,300 jobs in rural communities.

Read more about the USDA investments through the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program here.