If you only purchase finished nursery stock, you would owe a base certificate fee per sales location and an additional fee based on how much you spent purchasing finished stock for 2024. Finished nursery stock is plant material you order or pick up from a greenhouse, nursery, or garden center that is typically containerized (or ball and burlap) at a sellable size and you sell it or install it as is.
For example, if you are a landscaper with one sales location and you spent $15,000 buying nursery stock to sell in 2024, your 2025 renewal fee would include the $50 base certificate fee and $100 nursery stock purchases fee. Your total fee would equal $150.
Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) are not considered municipalities, please select "Broker" on your nursery certificate application.
If you only purchase finished nursery stock, you would owe a base certificate fee per sales location and an additional fee based on how much you spent purchasing finished stock for 2024. Finished nursery stock is plant material you order or pick up from a greenhouse, nursery, or garden center that is typically containerized (or ball and burlap) at a sellable size and you sell it as is. If you purchase bare root stock and sell it as bare root stock it is considered finished nursery stock.
For example, if you have one sales location and you spent $15,000 buying nursery stock to sell in 2024, your 2025 renewal fee would include the $50 base certificate fee and $100 nursery stock purchases fee. Your total fee would equal $150.
Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) are not considered municipalities, please select "Broker" on your nursery certificate application.
If you only purchase finished nursery stock, you would owe a base certificate fee per sales location and an additional fee based on how much you spent purchasing finished stock for 2024. Finished nursery stock is plant material you order or pick up from a greenhouse, nursery, or garden center that is typically containerized (or ball and burlap) at a sellable size and you sell it as is. If you purchase bare root stock and sell it as bare root stock it is considered finished nursery stock.
For example, if you have one sales location and you spent $15,000 buying nursery stock to sell in 2024, your 2025 renewal fee would include the $50 base certificate fee and $100 nursery stock purchases fee. Your total fee would equal $150.
Nursery Certification in Minnesota Has Changed for 2025
· Historically, the MDA has offered two types of nursery certificates, one for nursery growers and one for nursery dealers.
· Beginning January 1, 2025, the two certificate types will be combined into one and all nursery certificate holders will be considered Live Plant Dealers:
"Live Plant Dealer" means an entity who:
(1) raises, grows, or propagates nursery stock for sale, outdoors or indoors;
(2) acquires and further distributes nursery stock, including through landscaping or distribution with a tree spade; or
(3) operates a business in Minnesota selling nursery stock with or without taking ownership or handling the nursery stock
2023 Minnesota Statutes 18H.02 Subd. 15b.
· All 2024 nursery certificates will be renewed as Live Plant Dealer nursery certificates for 2025.
· Historically, the MDA has offered two types of nursery certificates, one for nursery growers and one for nursery dealers.
· Beginning January 1, 2025, the two certificate types will be combined into one and all nursery certificate holders will be considered Live Plant Dealers:
"Live Plant Dealer" means an entity who:
(1) raises, grows, or propagates nursery stock for sale, outdoors or indoors;
(2) acquires and further distributes nursery stock, including through landscaping or distribution with a tree spade; or
(3) operates a business in Minnesota selling nursery stock with or without taking ownership or handling the nursery stock
2023 Minnesota Statutes 18H.02 Subd. 15b.
· All 2024 nursery certificates will be renewed as Live Plant Dealer nursery certificates for 2025.
- Many certificate holders grow stock and sell finished stock purchased from others and a single certificate type simplifies participation in the program.
- A single certificate type also allows for one fee schedule for all program participants.
- Many certificate holders grow stock and sell finished stock purchased from others and a single certificate type simplifies participation in the program.
- A single certificate type also allows for one fee schedule for all program participants.
- The MDA first worked with our Nursery Advisory Group, comprised of Minnesota nursey industry stakeholders, to vet this change to the program.
- The MDA then proposed the changes to Minnesota Statute 18H during the 2023 legislative session and the language was passed without opposition.
- The MDA first worked with our Nursery Advisory Group, comprised of Minnesota nursey industry stakeholders, to vet this change to the program.
- The MDA then proposed the changes to Minnesota Statute 18H during the 2023 legislative session and the language was passed without opposition.
