July 25, 2025
Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to Meet on August 5 in Fredericksburg
Richmond, Va. - The Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Board) will meet in Fredericksburg at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. The meeting will be held in the Courtyard Fredericksburg Historic District, Mary Washington Room, 620 Caroline St., Fredericksburg, Va., 22401.
The meeting agenda is detailed below. The Board will entertain public comment at the conclusion of all other business for a period not to exceed 30 minutes. Additional meeting information is available on Virginia Regulatory Town Hall.
Tentative agenda:
- Call to order
- Roll call
- Approval of draft Board meeting minutes from May 22, 2025
- Board member reports
- Commissioner’s Report to Board – Joseph Guthrie, Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Final stage to promulgate 2 VAC 5-455 (Regulations for Tradespersons Installing Invasive Plant Species) – David Gianino, Program Manager, Office of Plant Industry Services
- Proposed stage to amend 2 VAC 5-360 (Regulations for the Enforcement of the Virginia Commercial Feed Act) – David Gianino, Program Manager, Office of Plant Industry Services
- Expansion of the Regulated Area of 2 VAC 5-315 (Virginia Imported Fire Ant Quarantine for Enforcement of the Virginia Pest Law) – David Gianino, Program Manager, Office of Plant Industry Services
- Annual electronic meeting policy adoption – Kevin Schmidt, Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Research
- New business
- Future Board meetings
- Public comment period
- Adjourn