Capitalizing on the successes of the Olympic experience, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food will focus on the following goals to strengthen its service to the public during the next 1000 days and beyond.

The department's mission is to: Protect and Promote Utah
Agriculture and Food.

In doing so, the department will work to ensure consumers a safe, wholesome and properly labeled supply of food, fiber and other
agricultural products.

• Increased on-farm biosecurity
• Increase disease surveillance and monitoring of livestock, poultry and fish populations to prevent the spread of animal borne diseases
  
• Increased food and plant safety
  
• Expand on-line services for licensing and registration and use credit cards for payment
  
• Acquire laboratory equipment that uses new technology to reduce hazardous chemical usage and increase laboratory efficiencies
  
• Seek new and expended markets for agricultural products of Utah
  
• Educate and inform the public about the departments values that recognize agriculture to be a sustainable supply of safe, clean and healthy food and that it values a clean environment
  
• Promote Utah's Olympic Environmental and Public Health branding message, "Where Life and Landscape Connect"
  
• Protect high-quality farmland through the Critical Agricultural Land Conservation Fund
  
• Improve Utah's environment by encouraging water and soil conservation, and provide technical assistance and incentives
  
• Protect public health through increased pesticide safety
  
• Work with DHRM in classifying employee positions appropriately and working with the legislative budget process to obtain necessary funding for compensation
  
• Permanently establish the department's Olympic communications plan as the department's emergency communications policy