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Re-certify as an MDA Commercial Animal Waste Technician (CAWT) by attending one of our training sessions.
Check your license card for the "Attend Workshop By" date. If it states 12/31/2024, the workshops listed below will cover your education for recertification for two years (2024 and 2025) as required by MDA for re-licensure.
2024 Commercial Animal Waste Technician (CAWT) recertification training for MDA licensure
If you need to recertify in 2024, you can attend an in-person course, take the online course, or retest.
About the course
CAWT license information — License requirements from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
License lookup — Look up your CAWT license number or expiration date.
- NEW applicators: If you have not been previously certified and licensed, you must watch the videos and take a quiz from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Click here for initial certification instructions.
- Certified applicators: To be eligible to renew your license, you must meet recertification requirements. You can either rewatch the videos and retake a quiz every year or attend a recertification course every other year.
- NEW site managers: If you have not been previously certified and licensed, you must first pass the certification exam (80% or better) for an initial license. Click here for initial certification instructions
- Certified site managers: To be eligible to renew your license you must meet recertification requirements by attending a course once every other year or re-test.
For MDA licensing information please contact:
pesticide.recertification@mda.mn.us or 651-201-6548
For UMN course information, please contact:
Brenda Postels, UMN Extension Educator
post0060@umn.edu or 763-370-3268
2024 In-person courses
Location: Sauk River Watershed District, 642 Lincoln Road, Sauk Centre
Time: 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Cost: $10
Speakers and topics: Download the agenda (PDF)
Contact: Megan Herbst, 320-293-7210
Light refreshments provided by Stearns DHIA Laboratories.
Location: Days Inn, 1000 Highway 7 W, Hutchinson
Time: 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Cost: Class fee is included in the annual MNCAA membership fee.
Speakers and topics: Download the agenda (PDF)
Contact: Rick Martens, 612-390-9530
This class is part of the MNCAA annual membership meeting. It includes a vendor show, lunch and annual meeting.
Location: Pizza Ranch, 2306 Broadway, Slayton, MN
Time: 9:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Cost: $10
Speakers and topics: Download the agenda
Contact: Doug Bos, 507-283-8862
There will be a lunch break for Pizza Ranch Buffet. (Class participants buy lunch on their own.)
Location: North American Farm and Power Show
1525 S Elm Ave, Owatonna, MN
Cost: $10
Time: 1-4:15 p.m.
Speakers and topics: Download the agenda
Contact: Brenda Postels, 763-370-3268
North American Farm & Power Show Expo runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: FarmFest
28269 MN-67, Morgan, MN
Cost: $20 (includes FarmFest gate pass)
Time: 8-11:45 a.m.
Contact: Brenda Postels, 763-370-3268
FarmFest runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Aug. 6–8, 2024
Manure equipment demonstrations in the afternoon.
2024 Online CAWT course
The online course will be available in late spring or early summer through October 2024. Check back here for registration information.