Tree-Farmer
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Can someone school me on this?
I want to buy 60 tons of chicken manure from Farm Nutrients in Iowa to fertilize ahead of corn this spring. They basically said that's a small amount, so their trucking companies wouldn't want to transport it. They said I could hire my own trucker to haul it.
Then they said that this person would have to have a CMS, Commercial Manure Applicator license to haul or, or specifically: To pick it up at their facility. Said they wouldn't let a truck driver have it, without this license.
However, I'm in Missouri and I don't think there is such a CDL type license in Missouri. Each state makes up their own rules, for some things.
Do you know how this would work? Is there an equivalent to a CMS license in Missouri? Or does that mean that I would have to hire a trucking company in Iowa to haul manure for me?
Does it matter that the trucker wouldn't be actually applying the manure, he would just be dumping it in my field?
For something like this, normally I might just call around, asking trucking companies if they'd be willing to haul and let them choose to be concerned about the legalities or not. But the Farm Nutrients sales person made a point of telling me this, so I assume that's their rules.
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/immag/commercial-manure-applicators
Thanks for any advice!
This post was edited by Tree-Farmer on 02/09/2023 at 06:09 pm.
I want to buy 60 tons of chicken manure from Farm Nutrients in Iowa to fertilize ahead of corn this spring. They basically said that's a small amount, so their trucking companies wouldn't want to transport it. They said I could hire my own trucker to haul it.
Then they said that this person would have to have a CMS, Commercial Manure Applicator license to haul or, or specifically: To pick it up at their facility. Said they wouldn't let a truck driver have it, without this license.
However, I'm in Missouri and I don't think there is such a CDL type license in Missouri. Each state makes up their own rules, for some things.
Do you know how this would work? Is there an equivalent to a CMS license in Missouri? Or does that mean that I would have to hire a trucking company in Iowa to haul manure for me?
Does it matter that the trucker wouldn't be actually applying the manure, he would just be dumping it in my field?
For something like this, normally I might just call around, asking trucking companies if they'd be willing to haul and let them choose to be concerned about the legalities or not. But the Farm Nutrients sales person made a point of telling me this, so I assume that's their rules.
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/immag/commercial-manure-applicators
Thanks for any advice!
This post was edited by Tree-Farmer on 02/09/2023 at 06:09 pm.