Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Department of Agriculture
Agency Information
The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) promotes production agriculture, consumer protection, economic development and healthy living. The Texas Legislature established the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) in 1907. The agriculture commissioner oversees the agency and is elected every four years. TDA provides value-added services through regulation, marketing and initiatives. The TDA is headquartered in Austin and has five regional service offices, two sub-offices, three laboratories and five livestock export facilities. The agency’s duties include promoting Texas agricultural products locally, nationally and internationally; assisting in the development of the agribusiness industry in Texas; regulating the sale, use and disposal of pesticides and herbicides; controlling destructive plant pests and diseases; and ensuring the accuracy of all weighing or measuring devices (like grocery scales or gas pumps) used in commercial transactions.
Oyster Marketing Program | Agriculture Commissioners’ records | Prescribed Burning Board | Audiovisual materials
Texas Department of Agriculture: Texas Oyster Marketing Program files, 1999-2003
Oyster Training 2
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Title: Department of Agriculture records
Dates: 1999-2003
Abstract: The Texas Department of Agriculture markets Texas agriculture products with a variety of outreach programs through its Marketing and Promotion Division. Records are Oyster Advisory Committee minutes, meeting files, and marketing publications, including paper records, 3 VHS tapes, 19 cassette tapes, and one 3.5 floppy disk, dating about 1999-2003.
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Texas Department of Agriculture: Commissioners’ Records, 1997-2006
Commissioner’s records
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Title: Department of Agriculture commissioners’ records
Dates: 1952-2006, undated, bulk 2000-2003
Abstract: The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) promotes production agriculture, consumer protection, economic development, and healthy living. The majority of the records are administrative correspondence, subject files, and speeches from Commissioner Susan Combs, dating 1997-2006, undated, bulk 2000-2003. Also included are biographical information, photographs, bumper stickers, and newspaper clippings of Commissioner John White, dating 1952-1995, undated. Records are paper with a small amount of electronic. Records are restricted, see online finding aid for more information.
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Texas Department of Agriculture: Prescribed Burning Board meeting minutes and agenda and other records, 1995-2018, undated, bulk 1998-2010
Texas Prescribed Burning Board, prescribed fire training regions
Creator: Texas. Prescribed Burning Board
Title: Prescribed Burning Board meeting minutes and agenda and other records
Dates: 1995-2018, undated, bulk 1998-2010
Abstract: The Texas Prescribed Burning Board (PBB) was created within the Department of Agriculture in 1999, for the purpose of establishing minimum standards for prescribed burning in Texas. The PBB certifies commercial, private, and not-for-profit prescribed burn managers to ensure they have
the proper training to execute prescribed burns designed to confine fire to a predetermined area and to accomplish planned land management objectives. Records include board meeting minutes and agenda, research and publication development files, Prescribed Fire School documents and curriculum, planning records, personnel documents, and audiocassettes, dated 1995-2018 and undated, bulk 1998-2010. The
audiocassettes have been digitized and are part of the Texas Digital Archive.
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Texas Department of Agriculture Audiovisual Materials: 1969-1999, undated
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Title: Texas Department of Agriculture audiovisual materials
Dates: 1969 to 1999, undated
Abstract: The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) promotes production agriculture, consumer protection, economic development, and healthy living. TDA’s Office of Communications provides media information and keeps the public informed of TDA activities and agriculture issues via traditional and social media channels. These 16 mm motion picture films and digital copies of the original audiotape and video recordings document the department’s activities, including many of the agency’s programs and events, public appearances of commissioners Jim Hightower and Rick Perry, and interviews with agricultural producers in Texas, dating 1969-1999 and undated. The majority of the 16 mm motion picture recordings have been digitized and along with the digital copies of the original recordings are part of the Texas Digital Archive.
