TN feed dealer bonds.
$275. Five minutes.
Tennessee's Department of Agriculture licenses commercial feed and grain dealers, and conditions some of those registrations on a small surety filed with the Division of Consumer and Industry Services. The amount on this filing is $1,000. Our premium is $275 — the flat 3% rate (which would be $30 here) runs below our $275 minimum, so $275 is the floor.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Small agricultural license bonds are about the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. No financials and no credit section on a bond this size.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with your registration
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with the Department of Agriculture. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$1,000 bond × 3% = $30, which is below our $275 minimum — so the premium is $275 per term. Multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What this bond actually guarantees
Tennessee's Department of Agriculture, Division of Consumer and Industry Services, oversees commercial feed and grain dealers. Where a dealer's registration is conditioned on a surety, the bond is a financial guarantee running to the state and to growers or buyers the dealer transacts with.
It is a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the State of Tennessee (the obligee). If a dealer fails to pay for or deliver product as the dealer law requires, a harmed party can recover against the bond — and if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
Be aware the bond requirement here is narrower than for some other ag licenses. A blanket bond mandate is not clearly stated for every commercial feed license in the rules — Tennessee's clear dealer-security requirements live in the grain and commodity dealer law. Confirm with the Department whether your specific registration requires this $1,000 filing, and we will issue it.
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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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$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.