South Carolina Department of Agriculture

"[2] The SCDA is also responsible for leading safety inspections of farms across South Carolina.

The goal is to encourage more consumers to purchase products produced in South Carolina to support local farmers.

The department is tasked with ensuring that the state's 64,000+ fuel pumps for motor vehicles in addition to airline fuel pumps are functioning correctly, are dispensing safe and balanced gasoline, and do not contain fraud measures, such as credit card skimmers.

[3][7][8] After the era of slavery in South Carolina, much of the soil had been depleted by the overproduction of cotton.

The department was established with a broad array of responsibilities: fertilizer regulation, soil improvement and analysis, distribution of seeds, sheep husbandry, immigration, geology, labor, and forestry.

Red Angus Cattle in Orangeburg, South Carolina .
SCDA inspection and certification sticker on fuel pump.