LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) are main a bipartisan initiative so as to add phosphate to the U.S. Essential Minerals Record to boost meals safety.
The letter notes that phosphate is a important fertilizer ingredient. Slotkin stated in a information launch that over 60 lawmakers are looking for to cut back reliance on overseas sources, together with China and decrease prices for American farmers by securing a secure provide of phosphate, a key ingredient in fertilizers.
“Phosphate, like potash, is indispensable to global food production and U.S. agriculture,” the senators wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum in a information launch despatched to six Information.
“Phosphate, like potash, is indispensable to global food production and U.S. agriculture. It has no substitutes in farming, and disruptions in supply have immediate and far-reaching consequences for American producers, food prices, and national security,” stated lawmakers in a letter to Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum in a information launch despatched to six Information. “Farmers across the country are already experiencing the impacts of market volatility and supply pressures tied to phosphate availability.”
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U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and Kat Cammack (R-FL) are main the corresponding effort within the Home.
