Licence verification
Is a plant nursery licensed in Wisconsin? How to check
Does Wisconsin publish a public registry?
Yes. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection maintains a public register of licensed nursery dealers and growers. View the registry and view the companion list .
What we hold
- Records on file
- 1,517
- As of
- 2026-08-04
Fields captured: licence number, business name, address, county, phone, source URL, and this as-of date, for every record.
A "State-licensed" badge only asserts current licensure while its registry file is 90 days old or less; past that, the badge on an affected listing states its as-of date instead of claiming current status.
We do not claim every nursery listed on this site in Wisconsin is licensed. Only the 1,517 businesses matched against this exact registry carry a "State-licensed" badge on their own listing page, each linking back to this registry as its citation.
Licensed by regulatory role
- Grower: 357
- Dealer: 1,160
How to verify a specific business
Search our Wisconsin directory for the business by name. A "State-licensed" badge on its listing page means we matched it against this exact registry, with the date we checked. If it isn't in our directory yet, check the state's own list (growers/dealers) or the state's own list directly.
Format
Two separate live-generated CSV reports, one for dealer licenses and one for grower licenses.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection publishes two live-generated CSV reports, one for nursery dealer licenses and one for nursery grower licenses.
We matched the Wisconsin businesses shown above against those two reports. Because they are live exports rather than dated documents, we record our own pull date as the as-of date, and every current match falls inside the 90-day cap described above and shows "State-licensed." A Wisconsin business with no badge at all may hold a real, current dealer or grower license we simply have not matched against either report, whether from a name difference or a licensee one of the two reports does not carry under that name.
The department's own dealer and grower reports above are the record to check or correct first. This directory's own correction link, on any listing page, lets you flag a wrong or missing match for us to re-check against the reports' next refresh.
Other states we hold a registry for
Only these 11 states publish (or make bulk-extractable) a public licensed-nursery registry we've verified directly. Every other state is silent here on purpose, not overlooked.
Sources
- https://mydatcp.wi.gov/documents/darm/License%20Web%20Report%20Nursery%20Dealer.csv
- https://mydatcp.wi.gov/documents/darm/License%20Web%20Report%20Nursery%20Grower.csv
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, as of 2026-08-04.