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California fertilizer registration, tonnage report and fees

Q: How often is the California tonnage report due?

Semiannual · due 31 July and 31 January · (3 CCR 2321(a)).

California's requirements in one page: licence, product registration, inspection fee, reporting frequency and late penalties — each with the official source. Agency: CDFA.

CALIFORNIA · FERTILABEL RULE SHEETREVIEWED 2026-09-04

Licence

$100 · per business location · biennial · additional $50 if renewed after 1 February · the $100 is the fee the agency's own guide publishes; the statute sets higher caps. Guide last revised 2017, currency not reconfirmed

Product registration

$100 · renewal $50 · organic input materials (OIM) $500 · per product label · biennial

Inspection fee

mill assessment · $0.001 x 2 per dollar of sales · quarterly · (FAC 14611 and 14613)

Work out the California fee for a given tonnage →

Tonnage report

Semiannual · due 31 July and 31 January · (3 CCR 2321(a))

Late penalty

license: $50 per month · registration: $50 per label · mill assessment: 15% · report: $200

Filing route

ExtraView

Public registrant list

Product database, about 1,700 companies

Rules last reviewed

2026-09-04

Open discrepancy — read this before you file. Two official sources for California do not agree on the following, and we will not guess:

whether the published $100 licence and registration fees are still current: $100 per the agency guide (last revised 2017) / the statute sets higher caps ($300 and $400); the currently charged amount is not reconfirmed

Confirm with the agency before relying on it. When we close it, this page changes and the source is cited.

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 California the reporting cycle is semiannual, so the work repeats twice 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 California?

California 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 California tonnage report due?

Semiannual · due 31 July and 31 January · (3 CCR 2321(a)).

What happens if I file the California tonnage report late?

license: $50 per month · registration: $50 per label · mill assessment: 15% · report: $200.

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 California 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 California last reviewed on 2026-09-04. Anything we could not read in an official source is marked “Not verified” above rather than filled in with a plausible value.