Department of Agriculture • Weights & Measures

Departmental Mission Statement

Our mission is to serve the public's interest by promoting and protecting agriculture, environmental quality, health and welfare as well as ensuring equity in the market place for all of Marin County's citizens.

Department Videos 

Firewood: Don't Get Burned (youtube) (new)
Marin Agriculture: Discover the Abundance (youtube)
Who's Protecting Your Pocketbook? (youtube)
When is a gallon a gallon? (youtube)

Landscape Professionals & Pesticide Applicators Workshop? If so, please see the highlights in the following video highlights:

Common Pesticide Use Noncompliances (youtube)
Handout: Common Pesticide Use Noncompliances (.pdf)

IPM for Landscape Professionals and Other Applicators (blip.tv)

Department Fee Schedule 

2011-2012 Fees

Departmental Services

Biological Control
Farmers' Markets
Glassy Winged Sharpshooter
Gypsy Moth Program
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program
Marin/Sonoma Weed Management Area
Organic Agriculture
Pest Exclusion/Quarantine
Pesticide Use
Plastic Bag Ban Program (new)
Spartina Project
Sudden Oak Death
Useful Agricultural/Weights & Measures Links