Farm cooperative CHS Inc. and fertilizer producer OCP North America are proposing a $450 million phosphate fertilizer plant in Louisiana, bolstering domestic supplies as global conflicts have increasingly thwarted the flow of foreign crop nutrients.

The proposed plant in Waggaman, Louisiana, the first of its kind in the US in over four decades, would produce more than a million tons of phosphate-based fertilizer annually, according to a Wednesday press release.

The US produced about 5 million metric tons of finished phosphate fertilizers in 2024, according to Bloomberg Green Markets.

August 26, 2026 at 7:06 PM UTC.