The special assistant supervises 1 professional and 1 classified staff. The General Services Bureau has 3 professional and 4 classified staff. The bureau provides business services and administrative and data processing support for the department. Part of the bureau's responsibilities include building and vehicle maintenance. Dairy Bureau State Seed Laboratory State Chemist Laboratory.
Some inspectors have dual assignments in the pesticide and feed and fertilizer bureaus.
Bureau of Pesticide Management Doug Henson, Bureau Chief Pesticide management licenses commercial and private pesticide applicators and registers the more than 6,000 pesticide products sold in the state. They also work closely with the Cooperative Extension Service in training and certifying persons to use restricted-use pesticides. Much of their work is investigating complaints of pesticide misuse from herbicide drift from aerial application to crops or misuse of a pesticide to control termites or cockroaches by a pest control operator. Bureau of Feed, Seed, and Fertilizer Roger Osburn, Bureau Chief Feed, seed, and fertilizer inspectors spend much of their time taking samples from feed and fertilizer plants and dealers and sending the samples to the State Chemist Laboratory to see if these products meet the label guarantee for their ingredients. They also inspect and collect samples from dairies, farms and ranches, and feed lots.