If you have questions or need information regarding a specific license,
please contact the program listed below:

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Pesticide & Fertilizer
(785) 564-6688

Feed Stuffs
(785) 564-6734

Dairy
(785) 564-6732

Food Safety
(785) 564-6767

All major credit cards will be accepted for payment of fees if you do not wish to pay by check, cashiers check or money order.  Please complete and submit the Credit Card Fillable Form along with the application for the license you are applying for.

If you are completing an application for Lodging or Food Safety and would like to pay with a credit card, debit card or electronic check, please complete the Electronic Payment Form and submit with your application.

Pesticide Product Application & Product Renewal
Please refer to: Pesticide Products

Commercial Pesticide Applicator Certification Exam Schedule

Commercial Pesticide Applicator Certification Application
Please refer to: Pesticide Applicator
Examination fee is $45 per exam, general exam and exam retakes are also $45 each. Certification is issued for 3 years.

Pesticide Business License Application
Please refer to: Pesticide Business
License fee is $140 per category. Must have proof of financial liability (insurance, escrow account, surety bond, or letter of credit) and employ at least one certified commercial applicator in each category or subcategory in which applications are made. 

Report of Change Form
Please refer to: Pesticide Applicator - Registered Technician
The licensee must submit the $15 fee required for each new uncertified individual employed to apply pesticides who worked for more than 10 days in a 30 day period or for 5 consecutive days.

Registered Technician Application
Please refer to: Pesticide Applicator
Fee of $40.00 is required per technician. Certification expires December 31. Registered technicians can be renewed yearly by completing 6 hours of training.

Pesticide Secondary Containment Application
Please refer to: Secondary Containment

Online Pesticide Dealer Registration
Pesticide Dealers can register or re-register online.

Pesticide Dealer Registration Application
Please refer to: Pesticide Dealer
The registration fee is two-tiered based on pesticide product sales during the previous year, $25 for a new application and for annual sales less than $2,500, $100 for annual sales of $2,500 or more. Expires June 30.

Escrow Form 
Pesticide Business License Application Supplement Form

Letter of Credit
Pesticide Business License Application Supplement Form

Insurance
Certificate of Liability Insurance for non-aerial applicators.
Pesticide Business License Application Supplement Form

Aerial Insurance
Pesticide Business License Application Supplement Form

Government Agency Registration Application
Any governmental agency wishing to apply pesticides within the State of Kansas on premises other than their own.  Fee is $50 and expires December 31.

Government Agency Report of Change Form
Use this form to report a change in a Government Agency.

Surety Bond Pesticide Business License Application Supplement Form

Fertilizer Blender License
A license is needed for anyone who blends only registered commercial fertilizers at the request and according to specifications furnished by the customer or purchaser. Registration Fee is $125 and expires December 31.

Bulk Fertilizer Storage Form
This document summarizes the secondary containment and bulk storage requirements for both liquid and dry fertilizers. It includes flow charts to assist in the application of bulk storage requirements, and also includes an application for a bulk fertilizer storage facility.

Fertilizer Product Instructions
Fertilizer Product Registration Information

Fertilizer Codes

Fertilizer County Codes

Fertilizer Product Registration Application 
Effective July 1, 2019, the registration fee is $45 per product.

The registrant of a commercial fertilizer is required to file an affidavit with Kansas Department of Agriculture and keep adequate records showing the tonnage of each commercial fertilizer shipped to or sold, offered or exposed for sale, or distributed - for use in Kansas.

Semi-annual Tonnage Inspection Fee Affidavit
(this form plus the following 2 all need to be turned in)
Semi-Annual Tonnage affidavit. The registrant of a commercial fertilizer is required to file an affidavit with Kansas Department of Agriculture and keep adequate records showing the tonnage of each commercial fertilizer shipped to or sold, offered or exposed for sale, or distributed - for use in Kansas. Inspection fee at $1.67 per ton. Reporting period from January 1 to June 30, and July 1 to December 31. Fertilizer Tonnage Instructions (instructions on how to fill out the reporting form)

      Fertilizer Tonnage Confidential Report (to be turned in with Tonnage Reporting)

      Fertilizer Tonnage Paid by Others (to be turned in with Tonnage Reporting)

Soil Amendment Application
The Kansas Soil Amendment Act (KSA 2-2801 et. seq.) requires registration and proof of efficacy for any substance which is intended to improve physical, chemical or other characteristics of the soil, or improve crop production. Exempted from the act are commercial fertilizers; agricultural liming materials, including ground and slaked lime; unmanipulated animal manures; vegetable compost; and pesticides.

The registration fee is $100 for each product. All registrations expire on December 31 of the year in which the product is registered. Along with the application for registration, the applicant must submit a copy of the label and all advertisements, brochures, posters and television and radio announcements to be used in promoting the sale of the soil amendment.

Soil Amendment Guidelines (to be used with Soil Amendment Application)

Lodging Establishment Application & Fee Schedule
Lodging Establishments are operations that offer sleeping accommodations for a charge. Lodging Establishments include guest houses, hotels, motels, bed & breakfast homes, lodges, rooming houses, and boarding houses. The application fee is based on the total number of rooms with an additional license fee depending on the number of rooms. You will need to have a Food Establishment License if you plan to serve food to the public, including overnight guests.

Application Fee:
1 – 29 Rooms = $100
    30+ Rooms = $200

License Fee:
 1 – 9 rooms……$ 30.00
10 – 19 rooms……$ 40.00
20 – 29 rooms……$ 50.00
30 – 39 rooms……$ 60.00
40 – 49 rooms……$ 70.00
50 – 59 rooms……$ 80.00
60 – 69 rooms……$ 90.00
70 – 79 rooms……$100.00
80 – 89 rooms……$110.00
90 – 99 rooms……$120.00
100 – 109 rooms……$130.00
110 – 119 rooms……$140.00
120 – 129 rooms……$150.00
130 – 139 rooms……$160.00
140 – 149 rooms……$170.00
150 – 159 rooms……$180.00
160 – 169 rooms……$190.00
170 – 179 rooms……$200.00
180 – 189 rooms……$210.00
190 – 199 rooms……$220.00
200 – 209 rooms……$230.00
210 – 219 rooms……$240.00
220 – 229 rooms……$250.00
230 – 239 rooms……$260.00
240 – 249 rooms……$270.00
250 – 259 rooms……$280.00
260 – 269 rooms……$290.00
270 – 279 rooms……$300.00
280 – 289 rooms……$310.00
290 – 299 rooms……$320.00
300 – 309 rooms……$330.00
310 – 319 rooms……$340.00
320 – 329 rooms……$350.00
330 – 339 rooms……$360.00
340 – 349 rooms……$370.00
350 – 359 rooms……$380.00
360 – 369 rooms……$390.00
370 – 379 rooms……$400.00
380 – 389 rooms……$410.00

Live Plant Dealer Application
Businesses or persons who grow live plants for sale or distribution; buys or obtains live plants for the purpose of reselling or reshipping within this state; plants, transplants or moves live plants from place to place within the state with the intent to plant such live plants for others and receives compensation for the live plants, for the planting of such live plants or for both live plants and plantings; or gives live plants as a premium or for advertising purposes; is required to obtain a Kansas Live Plant Dealer License before selling or offering for sale or delivering any live plants in Kansas. There is a fee for each location and the license period is from February 1 to January 31. No fee if you meet the exemption qualifications.

Live Plant Inspection Application Export Service (Online Form)
All states in the United States have requirements for shipping nursery stock and other live plants into their borders.

These requirements vary from state to state, but all require some type of inspection prior to shipment to ensure Kansas plant materials meet that state's import requirements.

Specific state requirements can be found at the National Plant Board's web site.

Plants shipped to other states without the proper inspection and certification documents are subject to rejection or other regulatory action by the receiving state.

Request for Growing season Inspection-Including Weed Free Forage Inspection Export Service (Online Form)
Growing season inspections occur prior to harvest in the field where the parent plants are growing. Many foreign countries have pest freedom standards that require such inspections in order to determine the absence of certain plant pests before the seeds of those plants can be imported and planted.

Weed-free forage inspection is a typical growing season inspection, generally for domestic export, and must occur if the forage is to be certified to meet the North American Weed Free Forage program standards. The Kansas Department of Agriculture does not require this weed-free forage certification but, upon request, will conduct a growing season inspection of forage intended for certification under those standards. An inspection report is given to the producer and after harvest a copy to this report is returned to the KDA identifying the number of bales harvested on each inspected site. Based upon the returned report, the amount of certified weed free forage for each site will be recorded and tracked. Producers can then request bale tags and/or make applications for transit certificates for their certified weed free forage.

Growing season inspections must be planned for well in advance. Applications for growing season inspections should be submitted early in order to determine inspection requirements and schedule staff time.

Request of Export Inspection - Foreign or Domestic (Online Form)
Many states and most foreign countries have established legal requirements for the entry of plant products that may facilitate the artificial movement of plant pests. Requirements vary between the importing entities but generally they can be met through an inspection and the subsequent issuance of the appropriate certificate.

At a minimum, plant commodity certification will generally require a visual inspection of the product being exported. In addition to a visual inspection, the importing state or country may require microscopic examination or other laboratory analysis of a commodity. In other instances, the certification must state that the parent plants were inspected during the growing season for the presence of specific plant diseases, insects and weeds.

The type of certificate issued will depend upon the importing entities requirements, the type of plant product and the extent to which it may have been processed.

Applications for inspection of these plant commodities should be submitted as early as possible.

Export Certificate Application (Online form)
Many states and most foreign countries have established legal requirements for the entry of plant products that may facilitate the artificial movement of plant pests. Requirements vary between the importing entities but generally they can be met through an inspection and the subsequent issuance of the appropriate certificate.

At a minimum, plant commodity certification will generally require a visual inspection of the product being exported. In addition to a visual inspection, the importing state or country may require microscopic examination or other laboratory analysis of a commodity. In other instances, the certification must state that the parent plants were inspected during the growing season for the presence of specific plant diseases, insects and weeds.

The type of certificate issued will depend upon the importing entities requirements, the type of plant product and the extent to which it may have been processed.

Applications for inspection of these plant commodities should be submitted as early as possible.

Monthly Statement of all Stocks

The Kansas Department of Agriculture issues two types of food licenses to food businesses. They are food establishment (restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, schools, bakeries, delicatessens, bars, drinking establishments, senior meal sites, caterers and mobile food units) and food processor (food wholesalers, food warehouses, food re-packers, and food manufacturers). A business may be required to have both licenses, depending on their operation.

To receive a license, the facility must pass a licensing inspection and the licensee must submit a signed license application along with the appropriate fees. Fees include an application and an annual license fee.

Payment may be made by credit card, check, cashiers check or money order. For credit card payments, please complete and submit the electronic payment form along with the license application.

All licenses expire each year on March 31. The department does not prorate license fees.

Food Establishment License

Food License Online Renewal

Online renewals are now available. To renew your Food Safety & Lodging license online, click here. 
Paper renewals were mailed in early February. Please contact the program at (785) 564-6767 or (785) 564-6733 or records@kda.ks.gov for more information.

Meat and Poultry Application for Registration
Registered facilities include fully inspected meat plants - those which can sell directly to the consumer, hotels and restaurants and retail stores within Kansas; custom plants - those which process meat for the owners, their families and guests; wholesalers; animal food manufacturers and brokers.

An applicant for a registration must provide all information requested and pay an application fee of $25. Only the person who is named on the registration can conduct operations at that registered establishment. Persons interested in entering this business should contact us. Our review team will visit your establishment and make suggestions to meet requirements necessary to become registered and begin operating. Registration expires December 31 of each calendar year.

Meat and Poultry Application for Custom and Retail Operation Exemption
If you checked any of the Custom fields on the Application for Registration, you will need to fill out the Meat and Poultry custom form.

Meat and Poultry Application for Registration
Wholesalers and Public Warehousemen are required to register with Kansas Department of Agriculture before they engage in business. You will need to list all persons, individuals, partners, officers, holders or owners of 10 per centum or more of voting stock, and employees in a managerial or executive capacity in the business. To obtain label approvals, you must contact the inspector at the plant where the animals are processed. There is a $25 fee and the registration expires December 31 of each calendar year.

Wholesale Supplement
This is an additional form required for those registering as a wholesaler. Only fully inspected and properly labeled product can be sold. Please indicate what inspected slaughter and processing facility (or facilities) you use.

Wholesale Guidelines
This information is to provide you with specific requirements to be fulfilled as a wholesaler of meat and/or poultry products.

Commercial Feeding Stuffs License
Manufacturers, importers, jobbers, firms, associations, corporations, or persons that sell, offer or expose for sale or distribute commercial feed in Kansas must have a commercial license for each manufacturing facility located in the state. Commercial feed includes feed for livestock, poultry, pets, specialty pets, and customer formula feed regardless of package container size or amount. A license is not required of persons distributing only commercial feed products of a Kansas licensee. Out-of-state manufacturers, importers, jobbers, firms, associations, corporations, or persons not having a distribution facility in the state must have a license for that entities principal office if feed is sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale, or distributed in Kansas. The fee for a commercial feeding stuffs license is $10 and shall be renewed on or before July 1st. Kansas Department of Agriculture mails renewal packet yearly.

Feed Stuff Tonnage Application

Distillers Wet Grains Exemption Information Sheet
This information document is to clarify the exemption for feed that consists of 60 percent or more of water from commercial feeding stuffs.

Feed Small Pet Product Application
This application is to be included with the Commercial Feeding Stuffs License application if you are manufacture or distribute pet food. In the case of pet foods which are distributed in the state in packages of 10 pounds or less, an annual fee of $25 per product shall be paid in lieu of tonnage reporting.

Feed Specialty Pet Product Application
This application is to be included with the Commercial Feeding Stuffs License application if you manufacture or distribute specialty pet food. The term "specialty pet" means any domesticated animal pet normally maintained in a cage or tank, including but not limited to gerbils, hamsters, canaries, psittacine birds, mynahs, finches, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes and turtles. An annual registration of specialty pet food products distributed in packages of one pound or less is required. Annual fee of $15 per product shall be paid in lieu of tonnage reporting. Appropriate remittance and labels must accompany the request for registration.

Feed Tonnage Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides information on reporting tonnage on the Commercial Feeding Stuffs License application. Feed manufacturers are required to pay an inspection fee on feed products and ingredients sold in Kansas. The current fee is 9 cents per ton of feed sold with a minimum fee of $15. These fees are used to fund the Kansas Department of Agriculture's Feed and Seed (ACAP) Program.

Grade A Producer Information Packet
Dairy farm permits are issued to the applicant and are valid until a change in ownership or a quit. An application for a dairy producer farm permit is included in the Grade A producer information packet.

Dairy Milk Distributor License
A dairy distributor is any person who first sells or offers for sale in Kansas any packaged milk, milk products or dairy products. Dairy distributor licenses expire December 31. License fee is $200. No milk distributor license is required for a licensed dairy manufacturing plant which distributes only those products which it manufactures.

Dairy Milk Hauler License
The dairy inspection program licenses and trains milk haulers, the people who collect milk at the dairy farm. Milk haulers in Kansas are licensed and evaluated on their ability to sample, collect and transport raw milk from the farm to the processing plant. Representative samples from each producer's shipment of milk are collected by the hauler. Producers are paid based on the testing of that sample. New milk haulers must complete a training exercise and a written test before they are licensed by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Licenses expire June 30 and the fee is $35.

Dairy Manufacturing Plant License
Dairy manufacturing plant means any place where dairy products, Grade A milk or milk products are manufactured or prepared for sale or distribution either at wholesale or retail. License expires December 31. License fee is $200.

Dairy Permit Application
Kansas permits to sell, receive and distribute Grade A milk and milk products are issued to the applicant and are valid for one full calendar year. Dairy fees are required to be paid by producer cooperatives, processors or distributors on Grade A raw milk produced on Kansas farms, Grade A raw milk processed in Kansas manufacturing plants and Grade A packaged milk products sold in Kansas.

Dairy Receiving Transfer Station Application
A transfer station is a facility where a smaller load of milk is pump or "transferred" from one truck to another, usually to a larger truck for transport. The owner or company operating the transfer station should fill out the form.

A receiving station is similar except it is a facility where the milk is pumped from the tanker truck and received into a storage tank(s) until it is further commingled with other milk. License expires December 31 of every year with a fee of $100.

Dairy Single Service Manufacturing License
A license is required to manufacture single-service dairy containers or to manufacture single-service dairy container closures. A single-service container is intended to be used once to package, handle, store or serve Grade A milk or Grade A milk products. License expires December 31 and fee is $100.

Dairy Clean or Sanitizing Permit
Owners of milk tank truck wash stations should fill out the application for milk tank truck cleaning and/or sanitizing permit. License expires December 31 and the fee is $100.

T1A Grade A Milk Producer Sales or Deliveries

T1B Manufacturing grade raw milk monthly reporting form

T3A Grade A packaged dairy products quarterly reporting form

T5A Grade A raw milk used for processing monthly reporting form

T5B Manufacturing grade raw milk used for processing monthly reporting form

T7 Frozen dairy dessert quarterly reporting form

Chemigation Equipment Operator Manual
Certified chemigation equipment operator examination manual.

Chemigation Equipment Operator Application
A certified chemigation equipment operator is an individual who has successfully completed an examination provided by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Examination fee of $25. The CEO certification is valid for five years, expiring December 31 of the fourth calendar year after the year of issue.

Chemigation User's Permit Application
A Chemigation User's Permit must be obtained before chemigating. The permit is valid for one year, expiring on December 31. The permit application/renewal fee is payable annually only on wells or water points of diversion to be used in the chemigation process during current year; $75 for the first well/water point of diversion and $15 for each additional well/water point of diversion. Anti-Pollution Plan and Plan for Handling Tailwater is required.

Anti-Pollution Plan
Chemigation Users Permit requires an Anti-Pollution Plan. The Kansas Chemigation Safety Law (K.S.A. 2-3301 et seq.) requires that irrigation systems which are used to apply pesticides, fertilizers, or other chemicals, or animal wastes, must be equipped with certain functional anti-pollution devices.

Plan for Handling Tailwater
Chemigation Users Permit requires a Plan for Handling Tailwater -Tailwater is excess irrigation water which reaches the lower end of a field. Tailwater is reused to irrigate crops.

Additional Point of Diversion

Conversion Table Guide
Chemigation Chemical Use Report CSL-400 - Conversion Table Guide

Chemigation CHEMICAL USE REPORT

Online Seed Business Registration
Seed businesses and dealers can register or re-register online.

Seed License Application  All businesses and individuals who sell agricultural seed are required to register with the State of Kansas, obtain a seed license and comply with the Kansas seed law. Agricultural seed means the seed of grass, legume, forage, cereal and fiber crops or mixtures thereof, but shall not include horticultural seeds. All businesses selling seed are subject to inspection, which includes sampling and analyzing seed and verifying all labeling requirements. Seed licenses expire August 31.

Seed Retailer - A retail business is one that sells to the end user, and it must have a $30 retail license.

Seed Wholesaler - A wholesaler is any person who is in the business of selling agricultural seed at wholesale to any person other than the end user. License fee is $250.

Combination (Wholesaler and Retailer) - If a business is both a retailer and a wholesaler, a $280 fee must be paid for licensing.

Seed Conditioners - We require all seed conditioners to register every two years, but we currently do not require a registration fee.

Seed Fact Sheet

Technician Application
Application for registration as a Technical Representative or Service Technician permits removal of rejection tags placed on weighing and measuring devices by the State of Kansas and City jurisdiction Weights and Measures officials; place in service repaired devices which have been previously rejected; place in service newly installed devices; perform annual testing of commercial devices as required by Kansas law. There is no fee for this application but you are required to pass an exam and be employed by a licensed Service Company. Licenses expire June 30.

Service Company License Application
Application for a license for a service company to test weighing or measuring devices. Separate applications must be filed for each place of business. The license will include authority to remove rejection and out-of-service tags placed on devices by the State and City jurisdiction Weights and Measures officials; authorizes service companies to place "in service" newly installed devices (only devices with an NTEP Certificate of Conformance). The licensee may also perform annual testing as required by Kansas Law. There is a $100 fee and the licenses expire June 30. Weights have to be tested within the last year by an approved lab or KDA's metrology lab.

Scale DI701 form
KDA requires that a test report be submitted with this installation report no later than 10 days after the service has occurred. If multiple devices are being installed at the same facility that are covered by the same Certificate of Conformance the serial numbers of the new devices and the devices being replaced may be listed on the back of he DI-701.

Egg Application
Any person selling, offering for sale or distributing, or grading eggs in Kansas needs to obtain a license. A producer of eggs when selling ungraded eggs of the producer's own flock production is exempted if the producer owns 50 or fewer hens.

Licensees shall keep and retain for 3 years such records required to verify the quantity of eggs bought, sold, offered for sale or distributed in the State of Kansas. Inspection fee of 3.5 mills for each dozen of graded eggs sold, offered or exposed for sale or distributed needs to be reported quarterly. Minimum fee is $15. License Fee is $5 and expires December 31.

Egg Distributor or Last Handler
This form is a supplement to the Egg Application and needs to be submitted by all last handlers or distributors.

Egg Stamp Application
Egg inspection fee stamps may be purchased at a minimum order of 1,000 carton stamps.

Egg Quarterly Inspection Report

Egg Fact Sheet for Last Handler

Egg Fact Sheet for Farmers Market

 

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