Legislation introduced to classify phosphate and potash as critical minerals

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the in the U.S. House that would list phosphate and potash as critical minerals.

Vice President of Government Affairs for the Fertilizer Institute Ed Thomas tells Brownfield, “It is bipartisan legislation that we feel will be really helpful in a movement to increase domestic fertilizer supply.”

Co-sponsor Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, says being dependent on Russian and Chinese minerals for crop fertilizers putsthe U.S.

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