MD grain dealer bonds.
$3,000 flat. Soft pull.
Maryland requires every licensed grain dealer to file a $100,000 bond with the Department of Agriculture. Ours is $3,000 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every dealer. One soft credit pull, e-signed in 1–2 business days.
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Three steps to licensed.
Your grain dealer license is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, a few commercial questions, and effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with Agriculture
Pay online and receive the executed bond, ready to file with your grain dealer license application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the State insists.
The whole pricing page.
$100,000 bond × 3% = $3,000, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Maryland licenses grain dealers through the Department of Agriculture — anyone in the business of buying, receiving, exchanging, or storing grain from a producer must hold an annual license. The license is conditioned on a $100,000 surety bond.
The bond is a producer-protection guarantee: it stands behind the money you owe the farmers and grain producers you buy from. It's a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety, and the State together with the producers as protected parties.
If a dealer fails to pay a producer for delivered grain, the harmed producer can recover against the bond — and the surety's total liability for all claims is capped at the $100,000 penal sum. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you repay the surety. Dealers who pay producers on time treat it as a license formality.
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Five minutes, including a soft pull.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
Do I pay the $100,000? +
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What does the bond guarantee? +
Is there a credit check? +
When does it renew? +
Other New York bonds.
The Department of Agriculture is waiting on one document.
$3,000 flat, five-minute application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.