NEW ULM — According to the USDA, fertilizer and nitrogen costs rose by a quarter to a third in the past couple weeks. Four U.S. lawmakers from the Midwest are working together to help farmers deal with those rising input costs Bipartisan bills introduced in March by U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD) and U.S. representatives Brad Finstad (R-MN) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) would provide more reliable information about fertilizer and fertilizer product costs. The Fertilizer Transparency Act would create mandatory price reporting structure to wholesalers, retailers ...