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Gary W. Black served as the 16th Commissioner of Agriculture in Georgia's history. Commissioner Black has served in various leadership positions during his 40-year career in Georgia agriculture extending from the Georgia Farm Bureau to the Georgia Agribusiness Council. ....
- Early History
- “King Cotton”
- Farm Population
WhenGeneral James E. Oglethorpeled the first settlement of English colonists at Savannahin 1733, one of their goals was to find crops that could be profitably grown and exported to England. Oglethorpe sought the advice and counsel of Tomochichi, leader of the Yamacraw people, who were skilled in hunting, fishing, and cultivating maize (corn), beans...
Cotton and tobacco became the major crops in Georgia after American independence because the loss of British markets and subsidies undercut other lucrative crops like indigo. Initially, cotton was limited to Georgia’s sea islands, but the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 near Savannah revolutionized the cotton industry. Short-stap...
Georgia remained an agrarian state until after World War II (1941-45). The rural population did not decrease much between 1920, when there were 2.1 million rural people and 310,000 farms, and 1960, when there were still 1.98 million rural residents. Over time, though, the proportion of the population living in rural areas decreased from about 85 pe...
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Jul 19, 2004 · The Georgia Department of Agriculture, with more than 850 full-time employees, is the state’s oldest independent executive agency. It was established in 1874 to promote the state’s agricultural enterprises, which had struggled since the end of the Civil War (1861-65).
Sep 1, 2009 · Agriculture came to Georgia with the first settlers and was largely directed toward the economic self-sufficiency of the British Empire. James C. Bonner's portrayal of the colonial cattle industry is prescient of the later open-range West.
The department's mission is to provide excellence in services and regulatory functions, to protect and promote agriculture and consumer interests, and to ensure an abundance of safe food and fiber for Georgia, America, and the world by using state-of-the-art technology and a professional workforce.
Jan 29, 2016 · The legacy of crop subsidies and crop insurance continues well into the twenty-first century. In 2012 the U.S. Department of Agriculture spent more than $14 billion insuring farmers against the loss of crop or income. In 2014, 2.86 million acres of farmland were insured in Georgia.
We can do a better job of helping Georgians understand what agriculture is today, what the Georgia Department of Agriculture does and why it is vital. Agriculture plays a significant role in Georgians’ lives every single day.”
