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Secretaries Rollins and Wright and Administrator Zeldin Hold a Press Conference on Fertilizer Policy, May 19, 2026

May 19, 2026 · USDA · 0:42:01

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What happened

Secretary Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary Chris Wright, Administrator Lee Zeldin, and members of Congress met for a press conference to discuss fertilizer policy at USDA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s description of its May 19, 2026 upload.

Why it matters

Fertilizer policy sits across three portfolios — Rollins’s farms, Wright’s energy inputs, and Zeldin’s environmental rules — and this joint appearance is the three principals presenting that policy as one administration position, three months before the August reshoring events paged on this site.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: the fertilizer-policy positions stated at this press conference by the three officials are recorded here as they stated them, to be checked against the policy’s subsequent record. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, ‘Secretary Rollins Hosts Fertilizer Press Conference,’ May 19, 2026 (official upload, embedded above).