314 2nd St NW

Jamestown, ND 58401

Phone: 701-252-1290

Fax: 701-252-1298

grain@csicable.net

Agricultural Marketing Act Fee Schedule

Effective Date: January 1st, 2024. This fee schedule supersedes all other Agricultural Marketing Act Fee 

schedules issued by this office. Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) must approve all fees for official 

services and Official Agencies will assess only those fees appearing on their currently approved fee 

schedule. FGIS user fees included. 

REGULAR HOURS

Office Hours: 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM – Monday thru Friday 

Inspection Hours: 5:00 AM to 2:00 PM – Monday thru Friday. If you would like same day inspection, 

please notify us by 9:00 AM. For weekend or holiday inspection service, please notify us by 12:00 PM of 

the previous business day. 

Sampling Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM – Monday thru Friday. For same day sampling, please notify us by 

11:00 AM. For weekend or holiday sampling service, please notify us by 1:00 PM of the previous business 

day. 

Overtime Hours: Hours beyond regular hours - Monday thru Friday and all day Saturday. 

Double Time: Will be charged for Sundays and Holidays. 

Holidays Include: New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, 

Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, New Years Eve Day after 2:00 PM, 

Christmas Eve Day after 2:00 PM. 

HOURLY RATES:

Regular Hourly Rate: $42.50 per man hour, sampler/technician 

Overtime Hourly Rate: Will be billed at one and half times the normal hourly rate 

and will be assessed in 1⁄4 hour increments. 

Stand-by Hourly Rate: Delays not caused by the agency will be billed at the 

applicable rate per man hour, and will be assessed in 1⁄4 hour increments. 
Travel Hourly Rate: Billed at the applicable rate per man hour, and assessed in 1⁄4 hour increments. 

Prorated when possible. (Plus mileage.) 

Grain Inspection Inc. reserves the right to determine the number of personnel required to properly provide 

the service requested.

Minimum Call Out Time: Two hour minimum, per person, to be billed at applicable hourly rate and 

prorated when possible. 

Mileage: Mileage will be assessed at a rate of less than or equal to the IRS standard mileage rate and will be 

prorated when possible. Mileage rate is subject to change when the IRS rate does.

Finance Charge: 1 1⁄2% per month after 30 days from statement date. 

Per Diem - $10 after 8 hours and $20 after 12 hours per person. 

Service requests not covered by this fee schedule will be performed at the appropriate hourly rate, plus 

travel time and mileage.

Special sampling handling and shipping will be charged the actual cost and sampler travel time plus mileage 

as applicable.

Commodity Cooperative Service Agreement Fees. In addition to all other applicable fees, commodity 

cooperative service agreement fees for commodity inspection services (pulses, hops, and miscellaneous 

processed commodities), excluding rice, will be assessed at the current percentage rate identified in FGIS

Directive 9180.74 (Service Fees and Billing Codes, Attachment 4.) The assessed fees must exclude travel, 

mailing expenses, and state and local taxes. Invoices will identify assessed commodity cooperative service 

agreement fees as separate line items.

Sample and Grade on processed commodity $23.81 

Grade (Thresher run grain) $24.77 

Sampling Only (sampling and certification only per unit) $10.51 Sanitation

$16.18 

Additional Factor to Grade (per factor) $ 5.42 

Factor Analysis (per factor) $ 5.42 

Stowage Examination per Carrier (on request) $14.40 

Mycotoxin Testing $30.72 

Witness Fumigation, per carrier $ 2.88 

Phyto Sanitary Test and 921-2 $ 6.24 

(Plus Appropriate sampling & hourly fee and actual postage) 

Falling Numbers $20.16 

 

All other services not covered in this fee schedule will be billed at the 

appropriate hourly rate.
314 2nd St NW

Jamestown, ND 58401

Phone: 701-252-1290

Fax: 701-252-1298

grain@csicable.net

 

Unofficial Services

Special Handling (forwarding samples to outside laboratories, 

 example North Dakota Dept. of Ag. – in addition to actual 

 freight charges) $ 5.00 

Double Probe $ 6.00 

Duplicate Copies of Certificates $ 2.00 

All other services not covered in this fee schedule will be billed at the appropriate hourly rate.