A Private Applicator Training is being offered on Wednesday February 21, 2018.

Call the Freestone County Extension Office 903-389-3436 to Pre-Register by February 9, 2018.

A private pesticide applicator is someone who uses or supervises the use of restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticides or regulated herbicides to produce an agricultural commodity on:

–Personally owned property;

–Rented property;

–Property owned by his or her employer;

–Property under his or her general control; or

–The property of another person if applied without compensation, other than the trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities.

–An agricultural commodity is a plant or animal grown for sale, lease, barter, feed or human consumption and animals raised for farm or ranch work. No license is required to apply general-use pesticides to produce agricultural commodities.