To all FLCC Members –
Darren Midlane of Lifesoils, has just brought to my attention a Notice of Rule Development Workshop on the Florida Fertilizer Regulations scheduled for Thursday, June 19th at 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 am. It is a virtual meeting with the link below.
Date & Time: June 19, 2025, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30a.m. EDT (or until conclusion)
Location: Online via GoToMeeting
Join at: https://meet.goto.com/436003413
Dial-in (Toll-Free): 1 (224) 501-3412
Access Code: 436-003-413
It is imperative that you review the attached Notice of Proposed Rule and determine its impacts upon your compost production and marketing. The FLCC and its members need to be fully involved in the upcoming June 19th Notice of Rule Development Workshop, and prepared to voice our support and/or opposition to the various changes to Rule 5E-1002.
I am recommending that we convene a Zoom meeting for early next week for all interested parties to discuss their review of the Notice of Proposed Rule, and determine the appropriate response from Florida’s composting industry. I will be prepared to accept and provide an industry response on FLCC letterhead, and the appropriate FLCC members to present our position at the June 19th Rule Development Workshop.
My experience to date on the State of Florida’s Fertilizer rule has been limited since it has been an accepted Florida composting industry position that compost is not fertilizer, and therefore not subject to the fertilizer registration and tax, and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has been very selective and inconsistent with how they have treated compost and its producers.
If this Proposed Rule will change that position, then we need to be fully engaged with the Rule Workshop process to comprehensively state our concerns and request that they be addressed.
I believe with our collective effort that we can make a difference.
If you are interested in joining in this effort, please complete the interest survey link ASAP with your contact information and who with your company would like to be involved, and with their contact information.
FLCC Zoom Meeting on June 11th at 1 pm (EST).
And to start getting something on the calendar, a Zoom meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 11th at 1:00 pm to discuss this development. Register (free) to participate in this FLCC Zoom meeting at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/kjaOAJ_TS9GiPKXCehb5Xg.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone that could be affected by this Rule change. Get them involved and to see firsthand the value and need to be a part of the FLCC!
We need to work together as an industry to grow and expand the manufacturing and marketing of compost in the State of Florida!
I look forward to hearing from you. And a big thank you to Darren for bringing this to the FLCC’s attention!
Chris Snow, FLCC Chapter Director
Chair of the FLCC Board
US Composting Council
Voice of the Composting Industry
Director of Public Policy
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