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South Dakota fertilizer registration, tonnage report and fees

South Dakota's requirements in one page: licence, product registration, inspection fee, reporting frequency and late penalties — each with the official source. Agency: South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

“tonnage reports are due by January 30 of each year”
SOUTH DAKOTA · FERTILABEL RULE SHEETREVIEWED 2026-09-08
Licence
$25 · DISCREPANCIA: the agency brochure calls the licence annual in one sentence and biennial in the next. Confirm the period with DANR before budgeting
Product registration
Not verified / not applicable
Inspection fee
$0.15 per ton · (ARSD 12:44:06:01 — fifteen cents a ton, except the fee is five cents a ton on products made up entirely of manipulated animal manure)
Work out the South Dakota fee for a given tonnage →
Tonnage report
Annual · due 30 January · the report is due 30 January and the licence renewal 31 January: one day apart, two different filings
Late penalty
10% late fee, minimum $10
Filing route
SD Commercial Feed/Fertilizer online licensing
Public registrant list
SD Commercial Feed/Fertilizer License Search
Rules last reviewed
2026-09-08
Open discrepancy — read this before you file. Two official sources for South Dakota do not agree on the following, and we will not guess:

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 South Dakota the reporting cycle is annual, so the work repeats once 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 South Dakota?
South Dakota 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 South Dakota tonnage report due?
Annual · due 30 January · the report is due 30 January and the licence renewal 31 January: one day apart, two different filings.
What happens if I file the South Dakota tonnage report late?
10% late fee, minimum $10.
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 South Dakota 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 South Dakota last reviewed on 2026-09-08. Anything we could not read in an official source is marked “Not verified” above rather than filled in with a plausible value.