爱荷华等三州玉米种植者协会10月27日联名致信特朗普，敦促推进化肥市场反垄断调查
爱荷华州马里昂县诺克斯维尔市消息，爱荷华玉米种植者协会与俄亥俄、得克萨斯两州玉米种植者协会10月27日联名致信美国总统特朗普，敦促联邦政府支持并推进对化肥市场反竞争行为的调查。联名信感谢联邦政府为支持农民所做的努力，包括近期的柴油纾困措施，但指出化肥价格高企抵消了这些措施的好处，持续上涨的化肥价格与缺乏有效市场竞争值得联邦监管机构采取执法行动。信中呼吁联邦政府支持联邦贸易委员会对化肥行业的市场集中与反竞争行为采取有依据的执法行动；这一诉求源于2025年12月的一项行政命令，该命令指示司法部与联邦贸易委员会调查食品供应链中的价格操纵与反竞争行为，并特别点名化肥市场。爱荷华玉米种植者协会的史蒂夫·库伊珀说，农民面对的化肥成本根本不反映一个有竞争的市场，农民需要一个透明、有竞争的化肥市场才有盈利的可能。信中还提到，爱荷华农民看到的氨价报价在柴油纾困宣布后不久就上涨了约每吨150美元。联邦政府是否推进调查以官方后续表态为准。
Corn Grower Associations from Iowa and Two Other States Write to Trump on October 27 Urging Fertilizer Antitrust Investigation
Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa — The Iowa Corn Growers Association, together with the Ohio and Texas corn grower associations, sent a joint letter to President Trump on October 27 urging the federal government to support and advance an investigation into anticompetitive conduct in the fertilizer market. The letter thanked the administration for its efforts to support farmers, including the recent diesel relief announcement, but said high fertilizer prices outweigh those benefits, and that persistent price increases and a lack of meaningful competition warrant enforcement action by federal regulators. It called on the administration to support the Federal Trade Commission in pursuing well-grounded enforcement against market concentration and anticompetitive behavior in the fertilizer industry — a request rooted in a December 2025 executive order directing the Justice Department and the FTC to investigate price fixing and anticompetitive behavior in the food supply chain, with specific attention to fertilizer markets. Steve Kuiper of the Iowa Corn Growers Association said farmers face fertilizer costs that simply do not reflect a competitive marketplace, and that farmers need a transparent, competitive fertilizer market to stand a chance of being profitable. The letter noted that ammonia price quotes seen by Iowa farmers rose by about $150 per ton shortly after the diesel relief announcement. Whether the federal government advances the investigation awaits official statements.
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图片来源：图：爱荷华州玉米田（资料图）。Don McCulley 摄，CC0，来源：Wikimedia Commons / Photo: An Iowa corn field (file photo). By Don McCulley, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
