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MN Stat § 18C.211 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.211 — Guaranteed Analysis.

18C.211 GUARANTEED ANALYSIS. Subdivision 1. N, P, and K nutrient content stated. (a) Until the commissioner prescribes the alternative form of guaranteed analysis, it must be stated as provided in this subdivision. (b) A guaranteed analysis must state the percentage of plant nutrient content, if claimed, in the following form:     "Total Nitrogen (N) ... percent  Available Phosphate (P2O5) ... percent  Soluble Potash (K2O) ... percent"   (c) For unacidulated mineral phosphatic materials and basic slag, bone, tankage, and other organic phosphate materials, the total phosphate or degree of fineness may also be stated. Subd. 2. Guarantees of the nutrients. (a) A person may guarantee plant nutrients other than nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium only if allowed or required by commissioner's rule. (b) The guarantees for the plant nutrients must be expressed in the elemental form. (c) The sources of other elements, oxides, salt, and chelates, may be required to be stated on the application for registration and may be included as a parenthetical statement on the label. Other beneficial substances or compounds, determinable by laboratory methods, also may be guaranteed by permission of the commissioner and with the advice of the director of the agricultural experiment station. (d) If plant nutrients or other substances or compounds are guaranteed, the plant nutrients are subject to inspection and analyses in accord with the methods and rules prescribed by the commissioner. (e) The commissioner may, by rule, require the potential basicity or acidity expressed in terms of calcium carbonate equivalent in multiples of 100 pounds per ton. (f) The plant nutrients in a specialty fertilizer must not be below or exceed the guaranteed analysis by more than the investigational allowances established by rule. Subd. 3.  [Repealed, 1993 c 367 s 41] Subd. 4. Guaranteed analysis of soil or plant amendment. The guaranteed analysis of a soil amendment or plant amendment must be an accurate statement of composition including the percentages of each ingredient. If the product is a microbiological product, the number of viable microorganisms per milliliter for a liquid or the number of viable microorganisms per gram for a dry product must also be listed. History:  1989 c 326 art 6 s 12; 1993 c 367 s 14; 2002 c 345 s 3
MN Stat § 18C.221 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.221 — Fertilizer Plant Food Content.

18C.221 FERTILIZER PLANT FOOD CONTENT. (a) Products that are deficient in plant food content are subject to this subdivision. (b) An analysis must show that a fertilizer is deficient: (1) in one or more of its guaranteed primary plant nutrients beyond the investigational allowances and compensations as established by regulation; or (2) if the overall index value of the fertilizer is shown below the level established by rule. (c) A deficiency in an official sample of mixed fertilizer resulting from nonuniformity is not distinguishable from a deficiency due to actual plant nutrient shortage and is properly subject to official action. (d) For the purpose of determining the commercial index value to be applied, the commissioner shall determine at least annually the values per unit of nitrogen, available phosphoric acid, and soluble potash in fertilizers in this state. (e) If a fertilizer in the possession of the consumer is found by the commissioner to be short in weight, the registrant or licensee of the fertilizer must submit a penalty payment of two times the value of the actual shortage to the consumer within 30 days after official notice from the commissioner. History:   1989 c 326 art 6 s 14
MN Stat § 18C.225 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.225 — Misbranded Products.

18C.225 MISBRANDED PRODUCTS. Subdivision 1. Sale and distribution prohibited. A person may not sell or distribute a misbranded fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment. Subd. 2. Factors causing misbranding. A fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment is misbranded if: (1) it carries a false or misleading statement on the container, on the label attached to the container; or (2) false or misleading statements concerning the fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment are disseminated in any manner or by any means. History:   1989 c 326 art 6 s 15
MN Stat § 18C.231 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.231 — Adulteration.

18C.231 ADULTERATION. Subdivision 1. Sale and distribution prohibited. A person may not sell or distribute an adulterated fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment product. Subd. 2. Factors causing adulteration. A fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment is adulterated if: (1) it contains a deleterious or harmful ingredient in an amount to render it injurious to plant life if applied in accordance with directions for use on the label; (2) the composition falls below or differs from that which the product is purported to possess by its labeling; or (3) the product contains unwanted crop seed or weed seed. Subd. 3. Certain adulterated products must be disposed. Adulterated products that cannot be reconditioned must be disposed of according to methods approved by the commissioner. History:   1989 c 326 art 6 s 16
MN Stat § 18C.235 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.235 — Storage, Handling, Disposal, And Incident Response Plan.

18C.235 STORAGE, HANDLING, DISPOSAL, AND INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN. Subdivision 1. Plan required. (a) A person required to be licensed under section 18C.415, or a person who stores fertilizers, soil amendment, or plant amendment products in bulk, must develop and maintain an incident response plan that describes the actions that will be taken to prevent and respond to agricultural chemical incidents. The plan must include information the commissioner deems necessary to respond to an agricultural chemical emergency incident. The commissioner shall make sample incident response plan forms available. The plan must be kept at a principal business site or location within this state and must be submitted to the commissioner upon request. The plan must be: (1) updated every three years or whenever information on the form becomes out of date, whichever is earlier; (2) reviewed with employees at least once per calendar year and include documentation of training events; and (3) made available to local first responders and documented accordingly. (b) A person also required to maintain an incident response plan under section 18B.37 is not required to maintain a separate incident response plan under this subdivision. Subd. 2.  [Repealed, 2015 c 44 s 37] History:  1989 c 326 art 6 s 17; 2015 c 44 s 10
MN Stat § 18C.301 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.301 — Mixing Pesticide With Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, Or Plant Amendment.

18C.301 MIXING PESTICIDE WITH FERTILIZER, SOIL AMENDMENT, OR PLANT AMENDMENT. A distributor who blends, mixes, or otherwise adds pesticides to fertilizers, soil amendments, or plant amendments must: (1) be licensed under section 18C.415; and (2) comply with the provisions of chapter 18B and the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Public Law 92-516, as amended. History:   1989 c 326 art 6 s 18
MN Stat § 18C.305 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.305 — Fertilizer Facilities.

18C.305 FERTILIZER FACILITIES. Subdivision 1. Construction permit. A person must obtain a permit from the commissioner on forms provided by the commissioner before the person constructs or substantially alters: (1) safeguards; or (2) an existing facility used for the distribution, handling, or bulk storage of fertilizers, soil amendments, or plant amendments. The commissioner may not grant a permit for a site without safeguards that are adequate to prevent the escape or movement of the fertilizers from the site. Subd. 2. Permit fees. (a) An application for a new facility must be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of $100 for each location where fertilizer is stored. (b) An application to substantially alter a facility must be accompanied by a nonrefundable $50 fee. (c) An additional fee of $250 must be paid by a person who begins construction of, or substantially alters a bulk agricultural chemical storage facility before a permit is issued by the commissioner, except that the $250 additional fee may not be assessed if the person submits a permit application with the required fee to the commissioner before completing the construction or substantial alteration. (d) An application for a facility that includes both fertilizers, as regulated under this chapter, and pesticides as regulated under chapter 18B shall pay only one application fee of $100. Subd. 3. Exemption. A permit and safeguard is not required for agricultural commodity producers who store, on their own property, for their own use, no more than 6,000 gallons of liquid commercial fertilizer. History:  1989 c 326 art 6 s 19; 1990 c 597 s 6; 1993 c 367 s 16; 2007 c 45 art 1 s 28
MN Stat § 18C.405 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.405 — Protection Of Trade Secrets.

18C.405 PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS. Subdivision 1. Notation of protected information. In submitting data required by this chapter, the applicant may: (1) clearly mark any portions that in the applicant's opinion are trade secrets, or commercial or financial information; and (2) submit the marked material separately from other material. Subd. 2. Protection of information by commissioner. (a) After consideration of the applicant's request submitted under subdivision 1, the commissioner may not allow the information to become public that the commissioner determines to contain or relate to trade secrets or to commercial or financial information obtained from an applicant. If necessary, information relating to formulas of products may be revealed to a state or federal agency consulted with similar protection of trade secret authority and may be revealed at a public hearing or in findings of facts issued by the commissioner. (b) If the commissioner proposes to release information that the applicant or registrant believes to be protected from disclosure under paragraph (a), the commissioner must notify the applicant or registrant by certified mail. The commissioner may not make the information available for inspection until 30 days after receipt of the notice by the applicant or registrant. During this period, the applicant or registrant may begin an action in an appropriate court for a declaratory judgment as to whether the information is subject to protection under this section. History:   1989 c 326 art 6 s 21
MN Stat § 18C.415 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.415 — Fertilizer Licenses.

18C.415 FERTILIZER LICENSES. Subdivision 1. License required. (a) A person may not sell or distribute bulk fertilizers for use on agricultural lands, custom apply fertilizers, or manufacture, blend, or otherwise manipulate fertilizers without obtaining a license from the commissioner from each fixed location where the person does business within the state and one license for all fixed locations that are located outside of the state. (b) A distributor may not manipulate fertilizer by means of a mobile mechanical unit without a license from the commissioner for each mobile mechanical unit. For the purposes of this section, fertilizer application equipment owned or operated by a person licensed under paragraph (a) is not considered a mobile mechanical unit. Subd. 2. Copy of label and labeling material. Application for license must include: (1) a designation of the formula such as is provided on an invoice, delivery ticket, label, or label facsimile, for each product manufactured or formulated; and (2) a copy of all labeling material used in this state for promotion of each product manufactured or formulated. Subd. 3. Effective period. Licenses are for the period from January 1 to the following December 31 and must be renewed annually by the licensee before January 1. A license is not transferable from one person to another, from the ownership to whom issued to another ownership, or from one location to another location. Subd. 4. Posting of license. The license must be posted in a conspicuous place in each fixed location in this state and accompany each mobile mechanical unit operated in this state. History:  1989 c 326 art 6 s 23; 1996 c 330 s 18; 2009 c 94 art 1 s 62
MN Stat § 18C.421 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.421 — Tonnage Report.

18C.421 TONNAGE REPORT. Subdivision 1. Annual tonnage report. (a) Each registrant under section 18C.411 and licensee under section 18C.415 shall file an annual tonnage report for the previous year ending June 30 with the commissioner, on forms provided or approved by the commissioner, stating the number of net tons of each brand or grade of fertilizer, soil amendment, or plant amendment distributed in this state or the number of net tons and grade of each raw fertilizer material distributed in this state during the reporting period. (b) A tonnage report is not required to be submitted and an inspection fee under section 18C.425, subdivision 6, is not required to be paid to the commissioner by a licensee who distributes fertilizer solely by custom application. (c) The annual tonnage report must be submitted to the commissioner on or before July 31 of each year. (d) The inspection fee at the rate stated in section 18C.425, subdivision 6, must accompany the statement. Subd. 2. Additional reports. The commissioner may by rule require additional reports for the purpose of gathering statistical data relating to fertilizer, soil amendments, and plant amendments distribution in the state. Subd. 3. Late annual report and inspection fee penalty. (a) If a registrant or licensee fails to submit an annual tonnage report or pay the inspection fee under section 18C.425, subdivision 6, by July 31, the commissioner shall assess the registrant or licensee a penalty of the greater of $50 or ten percent of the amount due. (b) The fees due, plus the penalty, may be recovered in a civil action against the licensee or registrant. (c) The assessment of the penalty does not prevent the commissioner from taking other actions as provided in this chapter and sections 18D.301 to 18D.331. Subd. 4.  [Repealed by amendment, 2009 c 94 art 1 s 63] Subd. 5. Verification of annual tonnage report. The commissioner may verify the records on which the annual tonnage report is based. History:  1989 c 326 art 6 s 24; 1997 c 216 s 28; 2000 c 477 s 19; 2009 c 94 art 1 s 63
MN Stat § 18C.432 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.432 — Manure Applicator Education And Training.

18C.432 MANURE APPLICATOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Subdivision 1. Education and training. (a) The commissioner shall develop, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Extension Service, innovative educational and training programs addressing manure applicator concerns, including water quality protection and the development of manure management plans. (b) The commissioner shall appoint educational planning committees which must include representatives of industry. (c) Specific current regulatory concerns must be discussed and, if appropriate, incorporated into each training session. (d) The commissioner may approve programs from private industry and nonprofit organizations that meet minimum requirements for education, training, and certification. (e) The commissioner shall report to the house of representatives and senate agriculture policy and funding committees by January 30, 2001, with recommendations for training, examination, certification, and costs of a private applicator manure certification program. Subd. 2. Training manual and examination development. The commissioner, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Extension Service, shall continually revise and update manure applicator training manuals and examinations. Questions in the examinations must be determined by the commissioner. Manuals and examinations must include manure management practices that discuss prevention of manure occurrence in waters of the state. History:   2000 c 435 s 1
MN Stat § 18C.433 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.433 — Commercial Animal Waste Application.

18C.433 COMMERCIAL ANIMAL WASTE APPLICATION. Subdivision 1. Requirement. Beginning January 1, 2006, only a commercial animal waste technician site manager or commercial animal waste technician applicator may apply animal waste from a feedlot that: (1) has a capacity of 300 animal units or more; and (2) does not have an updated manure management plan that meets the requirements of Pollution Control Agency rules. Subd. 2.  [Repealed by amendment, 2004 c 254 s 4] Subd. 3.  [Repealed by amendment, 2004 c 254 s 4] History:  2000 c 435 s 2; 2004 c 254 s 4; 2013 c 114 art 2 s 42
MN Stat § 18C.530 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.530 — Citation.

18C.530 CITATION. Sections 18C.531 to 18C.575 are known and may be cited as the "Minnesota Agricultural Liming Materials Law." History:   1990 c 561 s 1
MN Stat § 18C.535 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.535 — Powers And Duties Of Commissioner.

18C.535 POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER. Subdivision 1. Administration. The commissioner shall administer, implement, and enforce sections 18C.531 to 18C.575. The Department of Agriculture is the lead state agency for the regulation of agricultural liming materials which includes the storage, handling, distribution, and use of agricultural liming materials. Subd. 2. Delegation of duties. The commissioner may delegate authorities and duties under sections 18C.531 to 18C.575 to designated employees or agents of the Department of Agriculture. Subd. 3. Delegation to approved agencies. The commissioner may, by written agreement, delegate specific inspection, enforcement, and other regulatory duties of sections 18C.531 to 18C.575 to officials of approved agencies as defined in section 18B.01, subdivision 2. History:   1990 c 561 s 3
MN Stat § 18C.541 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.541 — License.

18C.541 LICENSE. Subdivision 1. License to sell. Before a person may sell, offer for sale, or dispose of in this state agricultural liming material to be used for the correction of soil acidity or soil fertility, the distributor and producer must obtain a license by filing with the commissioner an acceptable application for a license to sell, together with the license fee, on or before January 1 of each year. The application must state the name of the producer or distributor, the location of the principal office of the producer or distributor, the number and location of each source of production covered by the license, and the name, brand, or trademark under which the agricultural liming material will be sold. Subd. 2. Effective dates. A license is effective until January 1 following the date of its issuance or approval. A license may not be transferred from one person to another. Subd. 3. License posting. The license must be posted in a conspicuous place in each location where agricultural liming materials are sold. Subd. 4. Substantiation of claims. The commissioner may require a person applying for a license to sell or produce an agricultural liming material for use in this state to submit authentic experimental evidence or university research data to substantiate the claims made for the product. As evidence to substantiate claims, the commissioner may rely on experimental data, evaluations, or advice furnished by experts at the University of Minnesota and may accept or reject additional sources of evidence in evaluating the agricultural liming material. In all cases, the experimental evidence must relate to conditions in this state for which use of the product is intended. The commissioner may also require evidence of value of the product when used as directed or recommended. Subd. 5. Insufficient evidence. If the commissioner determines that the evidence submitted under subdivision 4 does not substantiate the product's usefulness in this state, the commissioner may require the applicant to submit samples, conduct tests, or submit additional information, including conditions affecting performance, to evaluate its performance and usefulness. Subd. 6. Industrial by-product without charge exempt. Industrial by-product lime material that is transferred between parties without compensation, except for a fair and reasonable transportation charge, is exempt from fees for licensing and inspection. History:   1990 c 561 s 4
MN Stat § 18C.545 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 17 - 43 — Agriculture|Chapter 18C — Fertilizer, Soil Amendment, And Plant Amendment|Section 18C.545 — Labeling.

18C.545 LABELING. Subdivision 1. Product label. An agricultural liming material offered for sale in this state must be labeled in accordance with rules adopted under this chapter. Subd. 2. Bagged and bulk shipment label. If agricultural liming material is transported or sold in bags or bulk, an invoice or delivery ticket in written or printed form as required by subdivision 1 must accompany each delivery and be supplied to each purchaser at the time of delivery. History:  1990 c 561 s 5; 1996 c 330 s 21