# 2025-15768: Grain Inspection Fees Rise Slightly for 2025 Farmers

2025-15768, 2025/2026 Rates for Grain Inspection and Weighing Services Under the United States Grain Standards Act, is a Federal Register notice from Agriculture Department, Agricultural Marketing Service published 2025-08-19, effective The 2025/2026 hourly, unit, and tonnage rates will be applied at the beginning of fiscal year 2025/2026.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15768
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15768
- Title: 2025/2026 Rates for Grain Inspection and Weighing Services Under the United States Grain Standards Act
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Agriculture Department; Agricultural Marketing Service
- Citation: 90 FR 40320
- Published: 2025-08-19
- Effective: The 2025/2026 hourly, unit, and tonnage rates will be applied at the beginning of fiscal year 2025/2026.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Grain Inspection Fees Rise Slightly for 2025 Farmers

## Summary

Starting in fiscal year 2025/2026, farmers and grain businesses will see some fees go up for official grain inspection and weighing services. These changes help cover rising costs and keep the program running smoothly. The new rates are based on careful cost reviews and will be posted online for everyone to check out.

## Abstract

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS or the Agency) is announcing the 2025/2026 rates it will charge for official grain inspection and weighing services, supervision of official grain inspection and weighing services, and miscellaneous fees for other services performed under the United States Grain Standards Act (USGSA), as amended. This action publishes the resulting fees from the annual review of fees. The 2025/2026 hourly, unit, and tonnage rates will be applied at the beginning of the fiscal year. This action establishes the rates for user-funded services based on costs incurred by AMS. This year, cost-based analyses indicated the need to increase certain user fee rates when current rates are insufficient to cover the costs of providing the service. While cost-saving measures have and will continue to be implemented, user fee rate increases are necessary to offset rising operational costs and rebuild the user fee reserve. Prospective customers can find the fee schedule posted on the Agency's public website: https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/fgis-program- directives.

## Effects PRIA read

- Higher Fees for Grain Inspection Services: cost, medium. If you are a farmer or run a grain business, some fees for official grain inspection, weighing, supervision, and other related services will increase in fiscal year 2025/2026. The new hourly, unit, and tonnage rates are cost-based, were raised because current rates didn’t cover costs, and will be a…

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## Sources
- [2025-15768 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/19/2025-15768/20252026-rates-for-grain-inspection-and-weighing-services-under-the-united-states-grain-standards)
- [2025-15768 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-19/pdf/2025-15768.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15768 (as of 2026-06-08).