The Biden administration is spending $207 million on domestic fertilizer and renewable energy projects, as part of an effort to boost supplier competition for U.S. farmers and ranchers and help lower energy costs for agricultural producers, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Monday.
USDA has awarded $50 million to be split among seven projects in seven states through the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP), which was created to help expand U.S. fertilizer production in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war.
The awards include the building of a fully automated fertilizer facility designed to manufacture custom products in Nebraska, and a company in North Carolina buying and installing a new anaerobic digestion facility for producing organic fertilizer and ammonium sulfate.
Additionally, USDA is awarding $157 million for 675 projects located in 42 states through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
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