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The Montana Crop Adjuster license

Crop Adjuster

Adjusts crop losses in Montana on a paper of its own. It is the same statutory license as the multi-line adjuster and the shortest of the three adjuster examinations at one hour.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

2

1 of them skips the state exam.

Exam

$65

Required on some routes and not others.

Every way to qualify

More than one route leads to this license, and which one you take changes what you study and whether you sit the exam. There is no pre-licensing course among them: this license is qualified for by sitting the examination or a license held in another state.

  1. Route 1 Pass the Crop Adjuster examination

    State exam required

    The examination

    • The Crop Adjuster examination, one hour, prescribed by the commissioner and sat at Pearson VUE. Montana's own passing score is 75 percent, which is higher than most.

    and residence, or a state that returns the favor

    • A resident of Montana, or a resident of another state that lets Montanans act as adjusters there. A nonresident whose own state does not license adjusters at all may designate Montana as a home state and qualify as if resident here.

    and an office the public can reach

    • An office maintained in Montana and accessible to the public, keeping the usual and customary records of transactions under the license for at least five years. It may be in the licensee's home.

    and character and a background examination

    • At least eighteen years old, trustworthy and of good character and reputation, and a licensing background examination under 33-17-220, which is fingerprints and a criminal history check submitted to the Montana Criminal Records Division.

    Pearson's Montana candidate handbook lists Crop Adjuster as a license type with a paper of its own, one hour, beside Multi-line Adjuster at an hour and three quarters and Public Adjuster at an hour. The Code does not separate them: 33-17-301 is one adjuster license and 33-17-301(7) reaches public adjusters through it, with no mention of crops anywhere in the chapter. So this is the vendor's license type and the Department's paper, built as the Department examines it and with the statute's shape printed on the page. Montana is unusual in giving crop a paper at all: Hawaii takes a Crop Adjuster Proficiency Program card in place of one, Minnesota takes no examination from a crop hail adjuster, and Washington calls the same federal program pre-licensing education.

    Read at pearsonvue.com on 2026-08-19

  2. Route 2 Hold the same license in another state

    Exempt from the state exam

    • an adjuster license in another state, currently held, or cancelled less than 90 days before the application arrives with a certification or database record showing good standing at cancellation

    33-17-301(4) is written the way this site has learned to read carefully: "an individual who applies for a nonresident license under this section in this state and who was previously licensed in another state may not be required to complete any prelicensing education or examination requirements."It is a nonresident route rather than a general one, and 33-17-301(4)(b) conditions it on the other license being current or on the application arriving inside ninety days of its cancellation.

    Read at mca.legmt.gov on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license. Montana requires no course of any adjuster and gives crop its own paper, an hour long, which nobody prepares anybody for: the adjuster products the other sellers carry here are all written against the Multi-line paper.