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Nominations Open for the 2025 County Committee Elections

News Release
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California
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Release Date
July 14, 2025

Deadline to Nominate is August 1, 2025

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) California Farm Service Agency (FSA) is reminding farmers and ranchers to participate in their local county committee elections nomination process. Local Farm Service Agency offices are now accepting nominations for county committee members and encourages all farmers, ranchers, and FSA program participants to take part in their local County Committee election nomination process. Customers can identify which LAA they or their farming or ranching operation is in by using our GIS locator tool available at fsa.usda.gov/elections. The deadline to nominate is August 1, 2025.

County committee members make important decisions about how Federal farm programs are administered locally. All nomination forms for the 2025 election must be postmarked or received in the local FSA office by Aug. 1, 2025.   

   

Agricultural producers who participate or cooperate in a USDA program and reside in the LAA that is up for election this year, may be nominated for candidacy for the county committee. A cooperating producer is someone who has provided information about their farming or ranching operation to FSA, even if they have not applied or received program benefits. 

 

Individuals may nominate themselves or others and qualifying organizations may also nominate candidates. USDA encourages minority producers, women, and beginning farmers or ranchers to nominate, vote and hold office.   

   

Nationwide, more than 7,700 dedicated members of the agricultural community serve on FSA county committees. The committees are made up of 3 to 11 members who serve three-year terms. Committee members are vital to how FSA carries out disaster programs, as well as conservation, commodity and price support programs, county office employment and other agricultural issues.   

 

For more information on FSA county committee elections, including fact sheets, nomination forms and FAQs, visit fsa.usda.gov/elections.  

Farm Service Agency:

1400 Independence Ave. 
SW Washington, DC 20250 
 

Contact:

FPAC Press Desk
FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov