The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) is Florida's cabinet-level state agency charged with supporting the state's agricultural economy, protecting consumers, ensuring food safety and plant and animal health, managing state forestry and wildfire response, and administering consumer programs such as weights and measures, licensing, and school nutrition. The department is led by the elected Commissioner of Agriculture, Wilton Simpson.
Agricultural support and marketing, farm and rural economic development, plant and animal health and biosecurity, food safety and inspection, consumer protection and business regulation, pesticide and fertilizer regulation, forestry and wildfire management, school nutrition and food assistance program administration, licensing and weights-and-measures standards, and emergency response for agricultural and food incidents.
Primarily funded by state appropriations and federal grants, supplemented by licensing, inspection and service fees, program reimbursements, and other departmental revenues.
Governor and Florida Cabinet, Florida Legislature, Florida Farm Bureau Federation, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Forest Service, and the office of Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
State government agency (cabinet-level department)
