To Promote and Protect Agriculture . . .
As prescribed by law, every county in the state of California is required to have an Agricultural Commissioner and a Sealer of Weights and Measures. County Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer (CAC) departments are regulatory agencies. The CAC performs under the jurisdiction and direction of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), and its Division of Measurement Standards (DMS), and the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). The Kings County Agricultural Commissioner department also works in cooperation with various other, federal, state, regional, and local agencies.
Promotion and protection of agriculture in the county and the state is accomplished through outreach activities and enforcement of the laws and regulations of the California Food and Agriculture Code and the California Code of Regulations. Ensuring equity in the marketplace is attained from the same type of outreach activities and the enforcement of the laws and regulations regarding weights and measures in the Business and Professions Code of California and the California Code of Regulations.
2007 Kings County Crop Report
"Water The Life Blood of Agriculture"
April 29, 2008, the 2007 Kings County Crop Report will be presented to the Kings County Board of Supervisors. "Food Grows Where Water Flows" is a popular slogan seen throughout California on billboards and bumper stickers. And nowhere does that phase hit home harder than in the Central Valley, and in particular Kings County, where nearly 85% of the land in the county is used for agriculture. read more of the story