1E Relating to agriculture; establishing a Minnesota agricultural fertilizer research and education council and program; requiring the council to review applications and select projects to receive agricultural fertilizer research and education program grants; specifying certain council membership requirements, powers and duties; imposing certain checkoff fees for persons selling fertilizer to Minnesota producers, establishing an agriculture and fertilizer research and education program account in the agricultural fund for checkoff fee collections, authorizing refunds under certain conditions, exempting certain rules, sunset; specifying certain requirements for eligible projects activities, specifying certain requirements for the awarding of grants; requiring an annual audit of financial activities to be filed with the commissioner of agriculture, sunset; exempting farm storage of liquid commercial fertilizer from fertilizer facility safeguarding and permit requirements
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