Agricultural Sciences Division - Administrator: Greg Ames, (406) 444-2944 



The Department: 



■ Licenses 450 pesticide dealers and registers 8,000 pesticide products. 



■ Licenses 8,000 private pesticide applicators; 1,800 commercial and government applicators. 

 Registers 4,990 honey bee locations in Montana. 



Issues 1,145 export certificates to enable products to be shipped to other states and nations. 

 Issues 3,599 inspection certificates on a total of 262 million pounds of potatoes shipped for seed, 

 processing and fresh uses. 



Analytical Laboratory, operated jointly with MSU at Bozeman, annually performs 12,000 tests on 3,000 

 samples of feed, fertilizers, pesticides and water. 



Pesticide Disposal program assists producers, homeowners and businesses in disposing of unwanted 

 and unusable pesticides - a total of 307,000 pounds since 1994. 



Fertilizer program inspects 55 anhydrous ammonia storage sites and 600 nurse tanks for the health and 

 safety of workers and area residents. The department is distributing anhydrous ammonia tank locks under 

 2005 legislation to prevent thefts by drug manufacturers. 



Noxious Weed Trust Fund annually distributes $2.1 million in grants for weed management, research 

 and education from automobile license weed management fund, federal grants and interest received on 

 Noxious Weed Trust Fund principal. 



Board. Councils and Committees 



Agriculture Development Council * 



Alfalfa Seed Committee * 



Cherry Advisory Committee 



Hail Insurance Board * 



Mint Committee * 



Noxious Weed Management 



Advisory Council 



Noxious Weed Seed Free Forage Advisory 



Council 



Noxious Weed Summit Advisory Council 



Organic Commodity Advisory Council 



Potato Advisory Committee 



Pulse Crop Advisory Committee 



Wheat & Barley Committee * 



* Attached to department for administrative purposes under Montana Code Annotated 2-15-121 



6 General 



Montana Agricultural Statistics 2007 



