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 

• One Bag Makes a World of Difference - Go Reusable (new)
• Firewood: Don't Get Burned (youtube)
• Marin Agriculture: Discover the Abundance (youtube)
• Who's Protecting Your Pocketbook? (youtube)
• When is a gallon a gallon? (youtube)
  

Did you miss the 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

New Business Outreach Materials (new)

• New Business Checklist
• Scanners and Scales: Frequently Asked Questions
• Weights & Measures Inspection Authority

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