MT commodity warehouse bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
A Montana public warehouse operator storing producers’ grain and commodities must license with the Department of Agriculture and file a surety bond. The amount is set by your licensed storage capacity — a $20,000 minimum up to a $1,000,000 cap. We issue it at a flat 3% with a soft credit pull only.
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Three steps to a licensed warehouse.
Your warehouse license is waiting on this bond. Here is the whole process — no broker phone tag:
Apply online
Business details, the bond amount the department set, and an effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the application.
Reviewed & approved
Most clear quickly; larger amounts may get a quick underwriter look within 48 hours. The soft credit pull never affects your score.
E-sign & file with the Department of Agriculture
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your warehouse license application. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the department insists.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the amount the department set from your capacity and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the warehouse bond actually covers
Montana licenses public warehouse operators — businesses that store grain and agricultural commodities for producers — through the Department of Agriculture under MCA Title 80, Chapter 4. The bond protects the depositors whose commodities you store: if a warehouse loses or fails to deliver stored grain, the depositors can recover against the bond.
The amount is set by your licensed storage capacity. Under MCA 80-4-505 the bond is computed on a per-hundredweight schedule — roughly 20¢ per cwt for the first 500,000, 15¢ for the next 500,000, and 10¢ above one million — and may not be less than $20,000 or more than the $1,000,000 cap in MCA 80-4-405.
It is a three-party guarantee — you (the principal operator), the surety, and the State of Montana for the benefit of depositors (the protected parties). If the surety pays a depositor’s claim, you repay the surety. Tell us the amount on your license and we issue it at a flat 3%.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
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.
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If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.