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Private Pesticide Applicator Categories

1 - Grain and Cereal Crops

application to cereal crops as grown for dry grain including corn, grain sorghums, other small grains and soybeans

2 - Forage Crops

application to crops grown primarily for use as hay, forage, fodder, or ensilage, and includes but is not limited to such crops as corn and legumes

3a - Field Vegetables and Speciality Crops

application to field-grown vegetables, sugar beets, sweet corn and other horticultural crops grown primarily for human consumption

3b - Tobacco

application to tobacco crops

4 - Fruit Crops

application to common orchard fruit crops, and small fruits including but not limited to strawberries, brambles and grapes

5 - Ornamentals and Turf Crops

application to commercial nursery crops including but not limited to trees, shrubs, grasses and herbaceous plants produced for replanting for their ornamental value or for future fruit production

6 - Greenhouse Crops

application to crops grown under glass or plastic cover either for food production or for ornamental value

7 - Forest Crops

application to tree crops as produced for use as Christmas trees, or for their utilitarian value, as timber, pulp wood, poles, etc.

8 - Livestock & Livestock Buildings

application to domestic and other animals, including poultry, and their quarters, but it does not include pets or pet quarters housed in human habitations

9 - Non-Crop Land

application to lands unsuitable and/or unused as pasture or for production of food, fibre, or timber

10 - Stored Grain

application to seeds, cereal grains or soybeans stored and intended for use as human food or animal feed

11 - Aquatics

application to lakes, ponds, and marshes from which it may be desirable to remove or reduce undesirable vegetation or animal life

12 - Seed Treatment

application of one or more pesticides to seeds for control of organisms detrimental to germinating seeds or emerging seedlings

13 - Wood Preservation

application of pesticides to wood products such as crossties, poles, posts, or other wood products that are not part of a structure when treated and are or will be exposed to insects, fungi, or weather

 

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