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The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is a cabinet-level agency in the government of California.Established in 1919 by the California State Legislature and signed into law by Governor William Stephens, the Department of Food and Agriculture is responsible for ensuring the state's food safety, the protection of the state's agriculture from invasive species, and promoting the ...
The Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are also led by secretaries, not department directors. Several departments, such as CDFA and CDCR, report directly to the Governor and their chief executive officers are members of the Governor's cabinet.
As of 2017, approximately 13 percent of United States agriculture production occurred in California, with agribusiness directly generating $47.1 billion of economic activity in the state. [2] The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is a state government agency with a primary mandate of protecting California "against invasion of ...
Shannon Douglass, president of the California Farm Bureau, said in an email that the state’s agriculture business “has faced significant challenges due to past trade disputes.”
Karen Ross is the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, having been appointed to that post by Governor Jerry Brown on January 12, 2011. She had previously served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a position she accepted in 2009.
Business and agricultural groups sued California on Tuesday over the most sweeping climate disclosure mandates in the nation, arguing the policies signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year overstep on ...
In 1919, the California Department of Food and Agriculture was established. The department covers state food safety, state protection from invasive species, and promoting the state's agricultural industry. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s drove many people from the American prairie, and a significant number of these economic migrants relocated to ...
In June 2019, Avalos filed a complaint with the CDFA Equal Employment Opportunity office and the California Civil Rights Department. Seven months later, the EEO found Rojas guilty of sexual ...