Title V, AGRICULTURE (Ch. 159 - 215A)

The secretary shall publish at least annually, in such forms as the secretary may deem proper, information concerning the sales of commercial fertilizers, together with such data on their production and use as the secretary may consider advisable. The secretary shall report semia…

1. a. The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing minimum general safety standards for the design, construction, location, installation, and operation of equipment for storage, handling, transportation by tank truck or tank trailer, and utilization of a ferti…

1. Upon satisfactory evidence that the registrant or licensee has used fraudulent or deceptive practices or has willfully violated any provisions of this chapter or any rules adopted under this chapter , the secretary is authorized and empowered to do any of the following: a. Can…

The secretary may issue and enforce a written or printed “stop sale, use or removal” order to the owner or custodian of any lot of commercial fertilizer or beneficial substance, if the secretary finds the commercial fertilizer or beneficial substance is being offered or exposed f…

Any lot of commercial fertilizer or beneficial substance not in compliance with the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to seizure on complaint of the secretary to a court of competent jurisdiction in the county or adjoining county in which the commercial fertilizer or be…

A licensee who sells ammonium nitrate on a retail basis shall comply with all of the following: 1. The licensee shall store the ammonium nitrate in a location which secures it from unauthorized access, and which prevents and provides for the detection of its theft. 2. A licensee …

1. If it shall appear from the examination of any commercial fertilizer or beneficial substance or any anhydrous ammonia installation, equipment, or operation that a provision of this chapter , including any rule adopted under this chapter , have been violated, the secretary shal…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or avoid sales or exchanges of commercial fertilizers or beneficial substances to each other by importers, manufacturers, or manipulators who mix fertilizer materials for sale or as preventing the free and unrestricted shipme…

This chapter shall be administered by the secretary of agriculture. [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §200.2 ] 2021 Acts, ch 76, §44

1. Except as provided in subsection 2 , a person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute any of the following: a. Phosphatic fertilizer containing less than eighteen percent available phosphoric acid (P 2 O 5 ). b. Nitrogen fertilizer containing less than fifteen percent to…

In a nuisance action or proceeding against an anhydrous ammonia plant brought by or on behalf of the person whose established date of ownership is subsequent to the established date of operation of an anhydrous ammonia plant, proof of compliance with applicable provisions of this…

1. As used in this section : a. “Local governmental entity” means any political subdivision, or any state authority which is not the general assembly or under the direction of a principal central department as enumerated in section 7E.5 , including a city as defined in section 36…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Ammonium nitrate” means a compound that is chiefly composed of ammonium salt of nitric acid which contains not less than thirty-three percent nitrogen, one-half of which is in the ammonium form and one-half in t…

1. Any person who manufactures, mixes, blends, mixes to customer’s order, offers for sale, sells, or distributes any fertilizer or beneficial substance in this state must first obtain a license issued by the secretary and pay a twenty dollar license fee for each place of manufact…

1. Each brand and grade of commercial fertilizer and each beneficial substance shall be registered before being offered for sale, sold, or otherwise distributed in this state; except that a commercial fertilizer formulated according to special specifications furnished by a consum…

1. a. Any commercial fertilizer offered for sale or sold or distributed in this state in bags or other containers shall have placed on or affixed to the container in legibly written or printed form, the information required by section 200.5, subsection 2 , either on tags affixed …

Only those persons licensed under section 200.4 shall be permitted to add pesticides to commercial fertilizers. These persons shall at all times produce a uniform mixture of fertilizer and pesticide and shall register and label their product in compliance with both chapter 206 an…

1. a. There shall be paid by the licensee to the secretary for any commercial fertilizer or beneficial substance sold or distributed in this state, an inspection fee to be fixed annually by the secretary at not more than twenty cents per ton. The sale of a commercial fertilizer o…

Fees collected for licenses and inspection fees under sections 200.4 and 200.8 , with the exception of those fees collected for deposit in the agriculture management account of the groundwater protection fund, shall be deposited in the general fund of the state. Moneys deposited …