5 CEU Texas Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education Course

5 CEU Texas Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education Course

✅ Approved by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) | TDA Client #00731645 | Course #1010750 | 5 CEUs: 2 Laws and Regulations, 2 Integrated Pest Management, 1 Drift Minimization | Only $64.99 | Instant Emailed Certificate | 100% Online & Self-Paced

Cover your entire Texas annual pesticide applicator continuing education requirement in one TDA-approved online course (course #1010750) for $64.99. Under 4 TAC 7.24(t) a commercial or noncommercial agricultural applicator licensed by the Texas Department of Agriculture must obtain 5 CEUs during each one-year license period, with at least one unit from each of two of the three categories integrated pest management, laws and regulations, and drift minimization. This course delivers all 5 units and all three categories - 2 laws and regulations, 2 integrated pest management, 1 drift minimization - so the total is met and the category requirement is covered twice over instead of just barely.

The course is 100% online and self-paced. Log in and out as often as you like without losing your place, finish the open book measure of competency, and your certificate is emailed to you immediately. 1st Choice Continuing Education reports your completion to the Texas Department of Agriculture as the course sponsor, and you keep the certificate as your own proof. One rule to know before you buy: 4 TAC 7.24(t) also provides that a commercial or noncommercial applicator may not recertify using department-approved correspondence activities for two consecutive years. This is a correspondence course, so if you use it for this license year, next year's units must come from a non-correspondence activity - and the year after that you can come back to us.

✅ Agricultural Applicators Only - This Is Not a Structural Pest Control Course

Read this before you buy. This is an AGRICULTURAL pesticide applicator course. It is written for Texas Department of Agriculture commercial and noncommercial agricultural applicators licensed under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 76 and 4 TAC Chapter 7, Subchapters A through G.

Structural pest control is a completely separate Texas Department of Agriculture program. It runs under the Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1951 and 4 TAC Chapter 7, Subchapter H, with its own license types, its own continuing education scheme, its own roster form, and a much tighter limit on self-study credit. The units in this course do not serve a structural licensee and will not appear on a structural CE record.

If your license is a structural business license, certified applicator license, technician license, or an apprentice registration, this is not your course. Call or text us at 1-800-698-2770 before you buy and we will tell you plainly whether what you need exists in our catalog.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 5 CEU Texas Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education Course
• State and regulator: Texas - Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), Agricultural Pesticide Program
• Approval: approved by the Texas Department of Agriculture as an agricultural CEU course - TDA course #1010750; sponsor Client #00731645
• Credit: 5 CEUs - 2 laws and regulations, 2 integrated pest management, 1 drift minimization
• Course length: five one-hour instructional sections; under 4 TAC 7.24(d) one CEU is based on 50 minutes of net actual instruction time
• Intended license types: commercial and noncommercial agricultural pesticide applicators
• Course format: online self-paced correspondence course with an open book quiz at the end of each section (70% to pass, up to three attempts)
• Price: $64.99
• Certificate: emailed to you instantly on completion
• Reporting: 1st Choice Continuing Education reports your completion to the Texas Department of Agriculture; you keep your certificate as your own proof
• Support: phone or text 1-800-698-2770

✅ Who Should Take This Course?

• Texas licensed commercial agricultural pesticide applicators who apply restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticides to the property of another for hire
• Texas licensed noncommercial agricultural pesticide applicators who work exclusively on an employer's property
• Applicators who want all 5 annual CEUs and all three named categories in a single purchase
• Applicators who are in a year when correspondence continuing education is allowed for them
• Row crop, pasture, rangeland, hay, and right-of-way applicators working with 2,4-D, MCPA, and dicamba
• Applicators who work in, or contract into, one of the Texas regulated herbicide counties
• Licensed private applicators looking for laws and regulations and integrated pest management units to apply toward a five-year cycle
• Not for structural pest control licensees - see the scope note above

✅ Does This Course Satisfy the State Requirement?

For a Texas commercial or noncommercial agricultural applicator, this course is built to satisfy the full annual continuing education requirement. 4 TAC 7.24(t) requires 5 CEUs before the license expires, with a minimum of one hour each from two of the three categories integrated pest management, laws and regulations, and drift minimization. This course provides 5 CEUs and carries units in all three of those categories, so the total requirement and the category requirement are both met in one enrollment.

What this course does not do. It is a correspondence activity, and 4 TAC 7.24(t) provides that a commercial or noncommercial applicator may not recertify using department-approved correspondence activities for two consecutive years. If you use this course for this license year, you must obtain next year's 5 CEUs through a non-correspondence activity such as a live class, a field day, or an in-person conference. The year after that you are free to use correspondence again. Plan the alternation now rather than discovering it a week before your license expires.

• It does not provide structural pest control CEUs of any kind.
• It is not built to the aerial split. An applicator certified in category 9, aerial application, has a separate three-of-five requirement under 4 TAC 7.24(t) covering aerial laws and regulations, aerial drift minimization, and pesticide safety addressing human factors. Confirm your aerial units separately.
• It does not satisfy the annual auxin training required by 4 TAC 7.30 for 2,4-D or dicamba applied to auxin-tolerant crops. That is a distinct annual mandate and the 5 recertification CEUs do not replace it.
• It is not sized to the private applicator scheme. A private applicator needs 15 CEUs across a five-year license, and this course supplies units toward that total rather than completing it.
• It does not renew your license. Completing CE and filing a renewal application are two different steps.

Requirements can turn on your exact license type, categories, and status, so check your license record with the Texas Department of Agriculture and confirm your own outstanding units before you rely on any course to close out a renewal.

✅ Texas Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education Requirements

The Texas Department of Agriculture licenses agricultural pesticide applicators under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 76, and the continuing education rules sit at 4 TAC 7.24. The requirement that applies to you depends on which of the three agricultural licenses you hold.

Commercial and noncommercial applicators - 4 TAC 7.24(t):

• 5 CEUs must be obtained before the license expires, and the license runs one year.
• A minimum of one hour each must come from two of the three categories: integrated pest management, laws and regulations, or drift minimization.
• The remaining units may be general or elective subjects such as safety, environmental consequences, pest identification, equipment, application techniques, biotechnology, or business ethics.
• Correspondence and interactive internet activities are permitted under 4 TAC 7.24(f) when the activity includes an open book measure of competency approved by the department.
• An applicator may not recertify using department-approved correspondence activities for two consecutive years - the alternating-year rule described above.

Private applicators - 4 TAC 7.24(v): A licensed private applicator is on a five-year license and must obtain 15 CEUs within the five-year period, including at least two CEUs in laws and regulations and two CEUs in integrated pest management. No more than 10 of the 15 may be obtained through correspondence activities, so at least 5 must come from another method.

Aerial applicators: Aerial application is category 9 under 4 TAC 7.21, an add-on certification carried alongside one or more appropriate use categories rather than a standalone license. 4 TAC 7.24(t) requires that three of the five CEUs address aerial operations, with one unit each in laws and regulations, drift minimization, and pesticide safety activities addressing human factors. This course is not built to that aerial split.

How CEUs are measured, reported, and documented:

• Under 4 TAC 7.24(d), one CEU is based on 50 minutes of net actual instruction time.
• The course sponsor files the activity roster with the department; 4 TAC 7.24(o) requires rosters to be provided to the department within 14 days after the end of an activity.
• Under 4 TAC 7.24(s) you must maintain proof of the CEUs needed to renew, and retain certificates of completion for 12 months after your most recent renewal.
• A continuing education shortfall prevents renewal until the credits are completed, so the CE has to be finished before the renewal goes in, not after.

How this course helps: This course provides 5 CEUs for a Texas commercial or noncommercial agricultural applicator: 2 in laws and regulations, 2 in integrated pest management, and 1 in drift minimization. That is the full 5-unit annual total, and because it carries units in all three named categories it covers the one-hour-each-from-two-of-three category requirement twice over. Nothing further is needed for the 4 TAC 7.24(t) recertification total for that license year. Two things remain outside it: because this is a correspondence activity, the following year's 5 CEUs must come from a non-correspondence activity, and if you apply 2,4-D or dicamba to auxin-tolerant crops the separate annual auxin training under 4 TAC 7.30 is still owed. An applicator certified in category 9 must confirm the aerial three-of-five split separately, and a private applicator may apply these units toward the 15-CEU five-year total rather than completing it.

✅ When Do Texas Applicators Renew?

Commercial and noncommercial agricultural applicator licenses are issued for one year. Under 4 TAC 7.20, licenses expire on the last day of the month matching the anniversary date, so your deadline is driven by your own license date and not by a single statewide date. Private applicator licenses run five years.

The continuing education deadline is tied to the same date. 4 TAC 7.24(t) requires the 5 CEUs to be obtained prior to the expiration of the license, which means the course has to be completed and reported before the expiration date, not merely started.

• Renew on or before the expiration date. Under 4 TAC 7.25, a licensee who fails to file a complete renewal application on or before the expiration date must pay a late fee as prescribed by the Code.
• A lapsed license does not authorize work. Using restricted-use pesticides during a lapse is prohibited and separately penalizable.
• There is a hard cutoff. Under 4 TAC 7.25, if a complete renewal application is not submitted within one year after expiration, the license is deemed voluntarily terminated and you must reapply as a new applicant.
• Late payment does not buy CE time. The late fee provision addresses the renewal application, not the requirement that the CEUs be earned before expiration.

✅ How to Renew Your Texas Applicator License

1. Confirm your license type, categories, status, and exact expiration date on your Texas Department of Agriculture license record before you plan anything else.
2. Check which kind of continuing education you are allowed to use this year. If you recertified with a correspondence or online course last year, this year's units must come from a non-correspondence activity.
3. Complete the required 5 CEUs before your expiration date, making sure at least one unit each comes from two of the three named categories - or take a course like this one that carries all three.
4. Let the sponsor report. Your course sponsor files the activity roster with the department; the rule allows sponsors 14 days after the end of the activity, so do not finish your CE the night before you renew.
5. Save your certificate of completion. You are required to keep proof of the CEUs used to renew and to retain certificates for 12 months after your most recent renewal.
6. Submit your complete renewal application to the Texas Department of Agriculture with the required fee before the expiration date, using the renewal method stated on the renewal notice the department sends you.
7. Verify afterward that your license record shows an active status and an updated expiration date, and keep the renewal receipt with your CE certificates.

If anything about your record looks wrong - a missing CEU posting, a category you no longer work in, an address the department cannot reach - resolve it before the expiration date rather than after. A renewal application is only useful when it is complete and correct.

✅ What You Will Learn

• How Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 76 and 4 TAC Chapter 7 fit together, and which of the three applicator licenses a given job actually requires
• How to build a pesticide use record that contains every element 4 TAC 7.33 requires, and how long to keep it
• Which products are Texas state-limited-use under 4 TAC 7.30, and when the separate annual auxin training is triggered
• How to scout, set economic and action thresholds, and document a defensible treat or no-treat decision
• How to build herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide resistance management into a Texas cropping system
• How to control the equipment and weather variables that cause particle drift and vapor drift
• How the Texas regulated herbicide county permit program works, and how to confirm the rules in force in a specific county before you spray
• How the February 2026 federal over-the-top dicamba restrictions stack on top of the Texas requirements

✅ Course Content Overview

Five one-hour sections, each with six subtopics. Each section carries a Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education category.

Section 1 - Laws and Regulations: Texas Pesticide Law, Licensing, and Continuing Education

• The statutory and regulatory framework: Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 76 and 4 TAC Chapter 7, with FIFRA and 40 CFR Part 171 behind the state program
• Commercial, noncommercial, and private licenses - which one a given activity requires
• The certification category system at 4 TAC 7.21, including category 9 aerial application
• The annual CEU obligation, the category split, and the 50-minute CEU under 4 TAC 7.24(d)
• The correspondence rules, including the alternating-year restriction and the private applicator ceiling
• Documenting CEUs and renewing without a lapse

Section 2 - Laws and Regulations: Restricted and State-Limited-Use Pesticides, Permits, Records, and Worker Protection

• Federal restricted-use versus Texas state-limited-use classification under 4 TAC 7.30
• When the annual auxin training applies, and why it is not the same as your 5 CEUs
• Supervision, storage, disposal, prior notification, and forbidden pesticide practices
• Building a use record that satisfies all 14 elements of 4 TAC 7.33
• The Worker Protection Standard as Texas implements it, including trainer records and sign specifications
• How a drift or misuse complaint is investigated and what enforcement follows

Section 3 - Integrated Pest Management: Principles, Scouting, and Thresholds

• What integrated pest management means for CEU and regulatory purposes
• Pest identification as the first legal and agronomic step
• Scouting method: sampling unit, sample size, pattern, timing, and recordkeeping
• Economic injury level, economic threshold, and action threshold in a treat or no-treat decision
• Cultural, mechanical, biological, and host-plant-resistance tactics that reduce chemical reliance
• Selecting a legally usable product when chemical control is warranted

Section 4 - Integrated Pest Management: Texas Cropping Systems and Resistance Management

• Cotton, including auxin-tolerant cotton systems
• Corn, grain sorghum, wheat, and other small grains
• Pasture, rangeland, hay, and right-of-way vegetation management
• Herbicide resistance management: site-of-action rotation, residuals, full labeled rates, and diversity
• Insecticide and fungicide resistance management, refuge and trait stewardship, and natural enemy conservation
• Documenting an IPM program so it survives an inspection or a complaint investigation

Section 5 - Drift Minimization: Drift, Regulated Herbicides, and the Texas County Permit Program

• Equipment variables that determine particle drift: droplet spectrum, nozzle, pressure, boom height, speed, and carrier volume
• Reading weather and site conditions - wind, inversions, temperature, humidity, sensitive crops, and buffers
• The Texas regulated herbicides and how a county comes under the regulated herbicide program
• Obtaining and administering a herbicide spray permit, including the permit number your use record must carry
• Confirming the specific county restrictions in force - seasonal windows, buffer distances, wind and row limits, and ester prohibitions
• The February 6, 2026 federal over-the-top dicamba restrictions and how they stack on the Texas requirements

The drift minimization hour is the part of this course you will not find taught properly anywhere else. The Texas regulated herbicide county permit program under Texas Agriculture Code sections 76.141 through 76.144 sets different rules in different counties - buffer distances measured from susceptible crops, wind velocity and downwind row limits, seasonal windows in which application is permit-free, and outright prohibitions on high-volatile ester formulations - and the rule that governs is the one for the county where the treated land lies, not your home county. This course teaches the procedure for confirming a specific county's rules and permit status before the sprayer moves.

✅ Other Related Courses

This is currently our only Texas agricultural pesticide applicator continuing education course, and it is built to carry the entire annual requirement on its own, so most commercial and noncommercial applicators will not need a second course this license year.

1st Choice Continuing Education publishes continuing education across many trades and states. Browse the full catalog at 1stchoice-ce.com, or call or text 1-800-698-2770 and we will tell you exactly what we have for your license and what we do not.

✅ Why Choose 1st Choice CE?

• ✅ All 5 annual CEUs and all three named categories in one TDA-approved $64.99 course
• ✅ 100% online and self-paced - log in and out anytime without losing progress
• ✅ Instant emailed certificate as soon as you finish
• ✅ We report your completion to the Texas Department of Agriculture so you do not have to chase it
• ✅ TDA-approved agricultural CEU course #1010750, written to current Texas law including the February 2026 federal dicamba restrictions
• ✅ Money-back guarantee
• ✅ Over 10 years of continuing education experience
• ✅ Real support by phone or text at 1-800-698-2770

✅ Enroll Now

Finish your Texas applicator continuing education this week instead of hunting for a class date. 5 CEUs - 2 laws and regulations, 2 integrated pest management, 1 drift minimization - for $64.99, entirely online and at your own pace, with your certificate emailed the moment you finish.

Enroll in the 5 CEU Texas Pesticide Applicator Continuing Education Course - $64.99

Questions about your license type, your categories, or whether this is a correspondence year for you? Call or text 1-800-698-2770 before you buy.