CO ag commodity handler bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
Colorado's Department of Agriculture licenses farm-product dealers, transporters, and warehouses under the Commodity Handler and Farm Products Act, conditioned on a surety bond with a $10,000 minimum. This page issues the $10,000 minimum bond at $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount, with no credit check.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the Department of Agriculture
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your commodity handler license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$10,000 minimum bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Your required amount scales with your commodity volume; the premium is always a flat 3%.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Colorado licenses commodity handlers — farm-product dealers, transporters, and public warehouses — through the Department of Agriculture under the Commodity Handler and Farm Products Act. The license is conditioned on a surety bond standing behind what a handler owes producers for the commodities it buys, hauls, or stores.
The bond is a producer-protection guarantee: it is a three-party arrangement between you (the principal), the surety, and the state and producers as the protected parties. If a handler fails to pay a producer for farm products it bought or handled, the producer can recover against the bond.
The required amount scales with your commodity volume — generally about 2% of prior-year Colorado purchases, with a $10,000 floor for dealers (warehouse minimums are higher). This page issues the $10,000 minimum; if your license requires more, send it to us and we issue the same flat 3%.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Finish your commodity handler license today.
$300 flat on the minimum, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.