Office of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Overseeing agricultural practices and ensuring environmental safety

The Office of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (AES):

• Ensures that animal feeds, pet foods, fertilizers, agricultural liming materials, industrial hemp, and pesticides meet all requirements of law

• Monitors, prevents, controls, and eradicates plant pests and diseases that threaten Louisiana’s agriculture, environment and economy

• Facilitates agricultural exports through certification of products

• Oversees the qualifications and practices of persons engaged in the green industry

• Protects human health and the environment by ensuring the proper labeling, distribution, storage, use, application and disposal of pesticides, and by thorough enforcement of all pesticide laws

• Ensures that seed sold for planting meets label guarantees and quality standards

• Ensures a safe, abundant supply of food and fiber

Services

• Agricultural chemistry programs (see fertilizer and agricultural lime )

• Apiary program

• Boll Weevil Eradication program

• Horticulture programs (see florists , arborists , nursery and landscape )

• Industrial Hemp program

• Pesticide & environmental programs (see pesticide licensing , pesticide safety and restrictions )

• Plant pest quarantine programs

• Seed programs

• Structural pest control program