MO Plant Law & Pesticide Use
Act/Pesticide Applicator User Training
PART 1
Missouri Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Division
• Nursery and Greenhouse Certification
• Export Certification
• Pest Survey
• Asian Longhorn Beetle
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Gypsy Moth
• Thousand Cankers Disease, Walnut
• Pesticide Certification Programs and Enforcement
Missouri Plant Law-Nursery and Greenhouse Certification
• The Missouri Plant Law (RSMO 263.010 - 263.180)
• Provides the authority for certification of nursery growers and sellers inside the nation of
Missouri.
• This certification process not only works to offer nursery inventory free of dangerous plant
pests
• Also allows the interstate movement of nursery stock. Annual inspections are carried out at
nursery growers to become aware of and mitigate the presence of harmful plant pests.
Missouri Plant Law
• Establishes a division tasked with coping with country nursery inspections.
1. State Entomologist - manages the division. Collin Wamsley, State Entomologist/Program
Administrator
2. State Nursery Inspectors - manipulate a territory inside the department.
Missouri Plant Law - Nursery / Greenhouse Inspections
• Depends on what is being inspected, typically inspections are performed yearly.
• Nursery dealers price $25/50 annual inspection
• Nursery growers' fees are based on acres of salable stock
, • This is a gadget of report retaining and accountability and manages motion of flowers.
• Establishes protocol for detecting and coping with pests.
Missouri Certified Nurseries
• Sod is taken into consideration nursery stock in Missouri and requirements are the same as
above.
• Bulbs, brambles, and strawberry flora also are defined as nursery stock and that they acquire
twin inspections every 12 months.
Missouri Certified Greenhouses
• The inspection/certification of greenhouses isn't always compulsory under the Missouri Plant
Law and is accomplished simplest upon request.
• A grower of greenhouse plants who desires a certificate of greenhouse inspection, may
additionally obtain a semiannual inspection in their greenhouse premises and plant life by way
of making utility to the kingdom entomologist.
• Vegetable transplant inspections are performed upon the request of the owner and are based
totally upon the requirements of the vacation spot state.
Missouri Certified Nursery Dealers
• The Missouri Plant Law calls for that each nursery provider, before selling, presenting for sale,
or otherwise distributing nursery inventory inside this kingdom, need to reap a Nursery Dealer's
Registration-Inspection Certificate yearly for every individual area from which the stated provider
sells or offers for sale nursery stock.
• Each nursery provider shall make utility on forms to be furnished via the nation entomologist
for every character location.
• A nursery supplier shall attain and distribute handiest inspected and licensed nursery stock.
• The kingdom entomologist might also look into, or motive to be inspected, the premises such
as any income backyard, packing shed, nursery stock available or gadget for the presence of
dangerous and unfavorable insect pests and plant diseases which can be disseminated on
nursery stock.
Missouri Pesticide Use Act
• Gives felony authority for the Missouri Dept. Of Ag. To pesticide software programs and
implement legal guidelines relating packages.
• The Pesticide Program is administered through the Bureau of Pesticide Control inside the
Plant Industries Division.
Missouri Pesticide Use Act - "Certified business applicator"
Act/Pesticide Applicator User Training
PART 1
Missouri Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Division
• Nursery and Greenhouse Certification
• Export Certification
• Pest Survey
• Asian Longhorn Beetle
• Emerald Ash Borer
• Gypsy Moth
• Thousand Cankers Disease, Walnut
• Pesticide Certification Programs and Enforcement
Missouri Plant Law-Nursery and Greenhouse Certification
• The Missouri Plant Law (RSMO 263.010 - 263.180)
• Provides the authority for certification of nursery growers and sellers inside the nation of
Missouri.
• This certification process not only works to offer nursery inventory free of dangerous plant
pests
• Also allows the interstate movement of nursery stock. Annual inspections are carried out at
nursery growers to become aware of and mitigate the presence of harmful plant pests.
Missouri Plant Law
• Establishes a division tasked with coping with country nursery inspections.
1. State Entomologist - manages the division. Collin Wamsley, State Entomologist/Program
Administrator
2. State Nursery Inspectors - manipulate a territory inside the department.
Missouri Plant Law - Nursery / Greenhouse Inspections
• Depends on what is being inspected, typically inspections are performed yearly.
• Nursery dealers price $25/50 annual inspection
• Nursery growers' fees are based on acres of salable stock
, • This is a gadget of report retaining and accountability and manages motion of flowers.
• Establishes protocol for detecting and coping with pests.
Missouri Certified Nurseries
• Sod is taken into consideration nursery stock in Missouri and requirements are the same as
above.
• Bulbs, brambles, and strawberry flora also are defined as nursery stock and that they acquire
twin inspections every 12 months.
Missouri Certified Greenhouses
• The inspection/certification of greenhouses isn't always compulsory under the Missouri Plant
Law and is accomplished simplest upon request.
• A grower of greenhouse plants who desires a certificate of greenhouse inspection, may
additionally obtain a semiannual inspection in their greenhouse premises and plant life by way
of making utility to the kingdom entomologist.
• Vegetable transplant inspections are performed upon the request of the owner and are based
totally upon the requirements of the vacation spot state.
Missouri Certified Nursery Dealers
• The Missouri Plant Law calls for that each nursery provider, before selling, presenting for sale,
or otherwise distributing nursery inventory inside this kingdom, need to reap a Nursery Dealer's
Registration-Inspection Certificate yearly for every individual area from which the stated provider
sells or offers for sale nursery stock.
• Each nursery provider shall make utility on forms to be furnished via the nation entomologist
for every character location.
• A nursery supplier shall attain and distribute handiest inspected and licensed nursery stock.
• The kingdom entomologist might also look into, or motive to be inspected, the premises such
as any income backyard, packing shed, nursery stock available or gadget for the presence of
dangerous and unfavorable insect pests and plant diseases which can be disseminated on
nursery stock.
Missouri Pesticide Use Act
• Gives felony authority for the Missouri Dept. Of Ag. To pesticide software programs and
implement legal guidelines relating packages.
• The Pesticide Program is administered through the Bureau of Pesticide Control inside the
Plant Industries Division.
Missouri Pesticide Use Act - "Certified business applicator"
