Asset Owners - No. An asset owner can apply for the maximum tax credits for either a rental or a sale for each eligible beginning farmer each year. There is no lifetime limit, and they can continue to apply for the program as long as the beginning farmer they work with is eligible.
Beginning Farmers - Yes. Beginning farmers are only eligible for the FBM tuition reimbursement tax credit for three years. However, beginning farmers can continue to apply for the program with their asset owners for all 10 years that they are considered a beginning farmer (they just won't get an FBM tax credit for years 4-10).
Asset Owners - No. An asset owner can apply for the maximum tax credits for either a rental or a sale for each eligible beginning farmer each year. There is no lifetime limit, and they can continue to apply for the program as long as the beginning farmer they work with is eligible.
Beginning Farmers - Yes. Beginning farmers are only eligible for the FBM tuition reimbursement tax credit for three years. However, beginning farmers can continue to apply for the program with their asset owners for all 10 years that they are considered a beginning farmer (they just won't get an FBM tax credit for years 4-10).
Yes, purchase of shelters for other types of livestock is acceptable.
Yes, purchase of shelters for other types of livestock is acceptable.
Yes, purchase of shelters for other types of livestock is acceptable.
The plant labeling law, commonly referred to as the “pollinator labeling law,” is Minnesota Statutes Chapter 18H.14(e). The statute, effective July 1, 2014 and revised in 2015, requires that plants labeled or advertised as “beneficial to pollinators” must be free of detectable levels of systemic insecticides. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will enforce the law which is designed to protect pollinators, such as honeybees, from exposure to systemic insecticides. The specific language is:
"A person selling at retail or providing to the end user of plant material may not label or advertise an annual plant, bedding plant, or other plant, plant material, or nursery stock as beneficial to pollinators if the annual plant, bedding plant, plant material or nursery stock has been treated with and has a detectable level of systemic insecticide that: (1) has a pollinator protection box on the label; or (2) has a pollinator, bee, or honey bee precautionary statement in the environmental hazards section of the insecticide product label; and a concentration in its flowers greater than the no observed adverse effect level of a systemic insecticide."
Simply put: If, at the point of sale in Minnesota, plants are advertised as attractive or beneficial to pollinators then those plants must not have in their flowers levels of systemic insecticides from products that carry the indicated label language toxic to honeybees.
