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Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
the state's agriculture department
- Founded
- 1885
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Place
- Tallahassee
- District
- Outside the Heartland
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating; runs the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program that holds easements on working Heartland ranches.
- Connections
- 4 edges, 4 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.021 (rank 60 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.000 (rank 191) · outside share 0.25
- Confidence
- High · sources: [WFDACS] [FS570] [FDPI] (register)
The office of Commissioner of Agriculture dates from 1885 within the 1868 constitutional lineage, and the modern department forms in the 1969 reorganization; its working lands easements are the counterflow to conversion [WFDACS][FS570][FDPI].
Connections
Programs, permits and leases
- program, permit or lease overJoshua Citrus IncCentury Pioneer Family Farm designation for more than 100 years of operationongoing
- program, permit or lease overOkeechobee Livestock Marketlisted among the state's livestock marketsongoing
- program, permit or lease overHancock family Charlie Creek easementRural and Family Lands Protection Program easement2026
Collaboration
- collaborationUSDA and the National Agricultural Statistics Servicethe federal Florida field office operates in cooperation with the departmentongoing