TRUMAN and BLUE EARTH, Minn. – Central Farm Service (CFS), TalusAg and CleanCounts announced a collaborative project March 5 to build Talus10 local ammonia production facilities in Minnesota, marking the first time locally produced ammonia fertilizer will be commercially available. Pending support from the Renewable Development Account (RDA), which will be decided in Minnesota’s 2026 Legislative Session, the project will deliver a first-of-its-kind regional supply of ammonia fertilizer directly to CFS member-owners, helping shield farmers from the price volatility seen in ammonia fertilizer markets.

Using electricity from Blue Earth Light & Water, the two Talus10 systems will each convert air, water and power into up to 20 tons per day of locally produced ammonia, enabling reliable, local production of a fertilizer essential to crop production across the region and a fuel for power generation.

For Minnesota farmers – who have endured years of price shocks driven by international gas markets and geopolitical instability – this project offers a new model of price stability, supply certainty and independence. The project will provide supply of ammonia to cover more than two-thirds of CFS’ annual ammonia sales and field applications to more than 100,000 total acres.

“Ammonia prices have swung by more than 300 percent in recent years,” said KC Graner, CEO of CFS, a farmer-owned cooperative serving nearly 4,500 members across southern Minnesota and northern Iowa. “Local production gives our member-owners a level of control and predictability they’ve never had before, and it strengthens the economic resilience of every farm we serve.”

Kurt Koehler, CFS board chair, said, “This is a great example of cooperatives looking to the future to ensure our members have certainty of supply and price for the products they need to produce a quality crop.”

Talus Ag, which completed a one-ton-per-day local ammonia production project in early 2025 in collaboration with Landus, an Iowa-based agriculture cooperative, will bring its modular, rapidly deployable Talus10 technology to Minnesota.

“Local ammonia production is the future of agricultural fertilizer,” said Hiro Iwanaga, co-founder and CEO of TalusAg. “By producing ammonia where it’s used, we ensure reliable supply, reduce transportation costs, and provide price stability to one of American farmers’ biggest variable costs.”

Funding from Minnesota’s Renewable Development Account (RDA) – established under Minn. Stat. § 116C.779 to support innovative energy technologies – is being sought by the partners to cover necessary infrastructure for the project. The RDA’s mission is to accelerate solutions that benefit Minnesota ratepayers, reduce emissions, and spur rural economic development.

As part of the project, CleanCounts – the largest registry and source of truth for compliance and voluntary clean energy markets within North America – will enhance its existing capabilities for issuance, retirement and transacting Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) for ammonia. While known for its best-in-class services focused on supporting electricity and clean fuels markets across North America, CleanCounts is expanding into tracking ammonia. CleanCounts supports more U.S. state and Canadian province regulatory programs than any other single registry and brings the same level of rigor, transparency and verification to voluntary buyers as is required by state regulators nationally.