This depends on what you will be doing. Please click this link: Horticulture & Nursery Licenses & Permits. For more information, call 225-952-8100 or email horticulture@ldaf.state.la.us

Yearly, based on our fiscal year of July 1 - June 30.

There are several private seedling nurseries in Louisiana; however, LDAF nurseries are the only Louisiana tree nurseries that offer pine seedlings for sale.

Certified Seed is high-quality seed of a known variety, which has superior production potential as defined by these important factors:  known genetic source, identity and origin, high genetic purity, high germinating ability, minimum amount of impurities, known presence or absence of certain seed-borne diseases and free of noxious weeds.

The following items can be considered a good beginning list of documents: completed application, current business plan including financial projections, current financial information, appraisals on the items to be offered as security, drawings of any structures to be built or modified.