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Soil and Plant Amendment Product Registration
Soil and Plant Amendment Product Label
Soil and Plant Amendment Annual Tonnage Report
Minnesota Department of Agriculture administers a Soil & Plant Amendment Program. The objective of the program is to promote fair trade practices among businesses that offer these products and protect consumers through product content reviews. The Program also ensures accurate and meaningful product labeling is provided to the consumers.
A person may not sell soil/plant amendments in Minnesota unless they are registered. Registration of a soil/plant amendment is not a warranty by the state. (Minn. Stat. § 18C.411)
Products Requiring Registration
The State of Minnesota defines soil and plant amendments as follows:
Soil Amendment: a substance intended to improve the structural, physical, or biological characteristics of the soil or modify organic matter at or near the soil surface, except fertilizers, agricultural liming materials, pesticides, and other materials exempted by the commissioner's rules.
Plant Amendment: a substance applied to plants or seeds that is intended to improve germination, growth, yield, product quality, reproduction, flavor, or other desirable characteristics of plants except fertilizers, soil amendments, agricultural liming materials, pesticides, and other materials that are exempted by rule.
Soil and Plant Amendment fees can be found on MDA's Soil and Plant Amendment Product Registration page.
The registration period is January 1 to December 31.
Soil and Plant Amendment Product Registration