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Arkansas fertilizer registration, tonnage report and fees

Arkansas's requirements in one page: licence, product registration, inspection fee, reporting frequency and late penalties — each with the official source. Agency: Arkansas Department of Agriculture (State Plant Board).

ARKANSAS · FERTILABEL RULE SHEETREVIEWED 2026-09-07
Licence
$50 · per facility/location · annual
Product registration
$25 · per brand · annual
Inspection fee
$2.40 per ton · charged on the fractional ton too, so small shipments are not rounded down
Work out the Arkansas fee for a given tonnage →
Tonnage report
Monthly · due the 20th of the following month · (Ark. Code 2-19-209 — monthly tonnage reports)
Late penalty
"1-14 days late: normal fee + 10%; 15-30 days: + 20%; 31+ days: normal fee doubled"
Filing route
Arkansas Department of Agriculture payment portal
Public registrant list
None found
Rules last reviewed
2026-09-07

What this means in practice

Every state sets its own calendar, its own fee and its own filing route, and none of them warn you before a deadline passes. In Arkansas the reporting cycle is monthly, so the work repeats twelve times a year for as long as you distribute there.

If you also sell in other states, none of those dates line up. That is the whole problem Fertilabel exists to solve: one calendar, one place, every form prefilled, every fee calculated, and the official source next to every rule so your own team can check it.

Questions

Do I need to register my fertilizer product in Arkansas?
Arkansas regulates fertilizer at state level — there is no federal fertilizer registry in the United States. The licence and registration requirements above come from the official sources listed at the foot of this page. Confirm your specific product with the agency: what applies depends on the product type and package size.
How often is the Arkansas tonnage report due?
Monthly · due the 20th of the following month · (Ark. Code 2-19-209 — monthly tonnage reports).
What happens if I file the Arkansas tonnage report late?
"1-14 days late: normal fee + 10%; 15-30 days: + 20%; 31+ days: normal fee doubled".
Does Fertilabel file this for me?
No. We prepare the calendar, the prefilled forms and the fee math, and you submit under your own state account. You stay the registrant of record. We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice.

Know the day Arkansas changes a rule

One email when a fee, a date or a form on this page changes, with the official source. Nothing else: no newsletter, no sales sequence. And a seat on the early-access list for the calendar, prefilled forms and fee math.

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Official sources

Rules for Arkansas last reviewed on 2026-09-07. Anything we could not read in an official source is marked “Not verified” above rather than filled in with a plausible value.