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• Detector Dog Team

  Detector Dog Teams inspect parcels arriving in the county by express carriers such as FedEx and UPS

• Export Program

  Export Program certifies thousands of San Diego’s outgoing agricultural products every year; ensuring shipments meet the plant cleanliness requirements of the importing country, state, or county

• High Risk Pest Exclusion Program

  High Risk Pest Exclusion Program inspects shipments of produce and plants coming into San Diego County from other counties, countries, and states for exotic pests and proper certification

• Nursery Inspection Program

  Nursery Inspection Program performs hundreds of annual inspections of production nurseries throughout the county to ensure cleanliness and proper licensing

• Pierces Disease Control Program (PDCP)

  Pierces Disease Control Program. The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) is an invasive pest that transmits Pierce’s Disease, a fatal disease of grapevines, threatening the sustainability of California’s $57.6 billion viticultural industry. Nursery stock is a high-risk agricultural commodity for spreading GWSS.

  To facilitate nursery stock movement in agricultural trade, the Commissioner (CAC) may issue a compliance agreement to a production nursery to allow nursery stock movement out of an infested area, such as San Diego county, provided the nursery complies with the regulatory restrictions set forth in the compliance agreement.

  Nursery Compliance Agreement Types

  Program Regulated

  You are allowed to self inspect and ship your plants to non-infested, enforcing counties with the proper paperwork.

  1. Determine if the area you are shipping to is an enforcing area.

  2. Determine if the plant material you are shipping is GWSS-host material by going to.

  • We recommend you check this GWSS host list on the internet frequently, as it changes often.

  3. Your staff must thoroughly inspect the GWSS host plants to ensure there are no GWSS life stages on the plants.

  • Please be careful to inspect the leaf petioles, twigs, and small branches for the presence of adults and nymphs. Be aware the insects will try and hide from observation by moving to the far side of any available stem. Egg masses are typically found on the underside of a leaf.

  4. Your shipping documents must include:

  • A copy of compliance agreement stamp.
  • A “blue tag”
  •     Attach the top half of the blue tag to your shipping documentation. If you have more than one drop and more than one set of paperwork attach a “blue tag” to each set of paperwork.
  •     Obliterate the California Nursery Stock Certificate when shipping host material with a blue tag.
  • Fax the bottom half of the blue tag at least 24 hours in advance to the RECEIVING County. 
  • If you have more than one drop and more than one set of paperwork, a copy of the blue tag and compliance agreement stamp must be attached for each drop.

  Master Permit

  1. Determine if the area you are shipping to is an enforcing area.

  2. Determine if the plant material you are shipping is GWSS-host material by going to.

  • We recommend you check this GWSS host list on the internet frequently, as it changes often.

  3. You then need to schedule an outgoing inspection with our staff calling (760) 752-4713.

  4. Your staff must thoroughly inspect the GWSS host plants.

  5. Your staff moves plants to “GWSS-free staging area.”

  6. Our staff will inspect host plants. The plants need to be in the GWSS-free staging area prior to the arrival of our staff.

  7. Your staff treats host plants with a pesticide registered for use in California effective against sharpshooters and our staff will monitor the application. There is an approved list of pesticides in your compliance agreement.

  8. Plants must be protected from GWSS and rain until shipped.

  9. We will issue a Certificate of Quarantine Compliance (CQC).

  10. Fill out a “blue tag by:

  • Fill in the blanks on the blue tag.
  • Fax the bottom half of the blue tag at least 24 hours in advance to the RECEIVING County. 
  • Attach the top half of the blue tag to your shipping documentation. If you have more than one drop and more than one set of paperwork attach a “blue tag” to each set of paperwork.

  11. Attach the CQC and blue tag to your shipping documentation you ship with the plants.

  • Obliterate the California Nursery Stock Certificate when shipping host material with a blue tag.

  Broker

  You are allowed to self inspect and ship your plants to non-infested, enforcing counties with the proper paperwork.

  1. Determine if the area you are shipping to is an enforcing area.

  2. Determine if the plant material you are shipping is GWSS-host material by going to.

  • We recommend you check the GWSS host list on the internet frequently, as it changes often.

  3. You can only broker plants to enforcing areas from a Program Regulated Nursery or Program Regulated growing ground. You can determine a Program Regulated status by either asking the nursery if they are in the GWSS program and what their status is or by contacting us. 

  • Some nurseries have Program Regulated growing grounds and Master Permit growing grounds. You must tell them you are shipping plants to an enforcing county because they must fill the order from the Program Regulated growing grounds. Plants from a Master Permit Nurseries and Master Permit growing grounds are NOT allowed to be brokered.

  4. You must maintain the identity of all plants that originated in an infested area including which Program Regulated Nursery/growing grounds they originated from for 24 months.

  5. You cannot comingle plants from an infested area and enforcing area in the same shipment.

  6. Your shipping documents must include:

  • A copy of compliance agreement stamp. 
  • A “blue tag”. 
  •     Attach the top half of the blue tag to your shipping documentation. If you have more than one drop and more than one set of paperwork attach a “blue tag” to each set of paperwork. 
  •     Obliterate the California Nursery Stock Certificate when shipping host material with a blue tag. 
  •         Fax the bottom half of the blue tag at least 24 hours in advance to the RECEIVING County. 

  7. If you have more than one drop and more than one set of paperwork, a copy the blue tag and compliance agreement stamp must be attached for each drop.

  8. Please call us if you want to:

  • Broker plants from outside the State of California
  • Broker plants from a Master Permit Nursery
  • Have the nursery you are purchasing the plants from ship the plants for you

   

   

• Sudden Oak Death (SOD)

  Sudden Oak Death (SOD) monitors local nurseries to ensure they remain disease-free from SOD (Phytophthora ramorum)